# Senior Associate (European Competition practice)

**Company**: Charles River Associates
**Location**: Brussels
**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 European Competition practice in Brussels, you will assist Vice Presidents and other senior staff by providing conceptual and practical input to competition case work as required.

Responsibilities:

- Identify and conceptualise issues, specifying rigorous economic models to analyse market issues and data, undertaking statistical and econometric estimation, and managing 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/DPhil in economics from well-regarded institutions with a strong foundation in microeconomics, preferably with a specialization in industrial organisation or statistics/econometrics, as well as a good first degree in economics;

- Candidates without a PhD/DPhil must hold a MSc/MPhil with strong academic achievement;

- Up to 3 years of professional work experience in consulting, business, or with a competition authority strongly preferred;

- Candidates without a PhD/DPhil should have 5-7 years of professional work experience;

- Fluency in English;

- Demonstrated understanding of economic concepts, competition/regulatory authorities, competition policy and quantitative and qualitative analysis methods;

- Exceptional written and oral communication skills;

- Demonstrated high level of initiative and leadership;

- Strong teamwork and collaboration capabilities;

- Excellent time management and task prioritisation skills.

## Skills

### Required
- microeconomics
- industrial organisation
- statistics
- econometrics
- Stata
- Python
- R
- SAS
- Matlab
- Mathematica
- cloud computing

### Nice to have
- PhD/DPhil in economics
- MSc/MPhil in economics
- professional work experience in consulting
- business
- competition authority

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