# (2027 PhD/ABD graduates) Senior Associate (Antitrust & Competition Economics) - United Kingdom

**Company**: Charles River Associates
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

Charles River Associates is a leading global consulting firm that offers economic, financial, and strategic expertise to major law firms, corporations, and governments around the world.

As a Senior Associate in our London office, you will work closely with senior consultants on project teams and have the opportunity to immediately work on some of the largest, high-profile, and most significant competition cases in Europe.

Responsibilities:

- Identify and conceptualise issues, specify rigorous economic models to analyse market issues and data, undertake statistical and econometric estimation, and manage the work of research associate staff and colleagues;

- Supervise, train, and mentor research associate staff;

- Assist in the development and presentation of client deliverables, including expert reports and white papers summarising opinions, conclusions, and recommendations using market, industry, or client-proprietary data;

- Act as a primary point of contact for lawyers and other industry or government clients on a variety of practice-relevant issues;

- Program, build models, and/or perform regression analyses in statistical analysis programs (such as Stata, Python, R, SAS, Matlab, and Mathematica), including large data projects requiring use of cloud computing;

- Ensure the integrity and accuracy of analyses and opinions;

- Contribute to practice-building activities (training, recruiting, publication, expertise sharing, etc.).

Desired Qualifications:

- PhD degree in economics with a completion date of December 2026/Summer 2027 and an academic focus on Applied Microeconomics or Applied Microeconometrics, with specializations like industrial organization, labor, health, behavioural and public economics, or other quantitative areas;

- Experience in Excel, Stata, Python, R, SQL, SAS, ArcGIS/ArcPy, or Cloud computing (Databricks/Spark, Google Cloud, Azure, AWS);

- Demonstrated understanding of, and ability to explain, economic, financial, and/or accounting concepts, and quantitative and qualitative analysis methods;

- Curious and analytical thinkers who bring creative approaches to non-standard problems;

- Effective written and oral communication skills;

- Eagerness to learn new skills and programming languages;

- Demonstrated high level of initiative and leadership;

- Strong teamwork and collaboration capabilities;

- Excellent time management and task prioritization skills;

- Clear and demonstrated interest in consulting through coursework, work experience, activities, or attendance at CRA recruiting events.

Career Growth and Benefits:

- CRA’s robust skills development programs, including both formal and informal programs, encourage you to thrive as an individual and team member;

- Comprehensive total rewards program including a competitive salary and superior benefits package (plus a sizeable performance bonus), wellness programming to support physical, mental, emotional, and financial well-being, and in-house immigration support for foreign nationals and international business travelers.

## Skills

### Required
- PhD in economics
- Applied Microeconomics
- Applied Microeconometrics
- Excel
- Stata
- Python
- R
- SQL
- SAS
- ArcGIS/ArcPy
- Cloud computing

### Nice to have
- Experience in cloud computing
- Demonstrated understanding of economic concepts
- Effective written and oral communication skills

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