(2026 PhD / ABD graduates) Senior Associate (Antitrust & Competition Economics practice)

Charles River Associates; Düsseldorf; Vor Ort; EUR 60.000 - 80.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading global consulting firm in Düsseldorf is looking for a Senior Associate to work on high-profile competition cases in Europe. The role requires a PhD in economics, strong quantitative skills, and the ability to mentor junior staff. Key responsibilities include economic analysis, client deliverables, and working closely with legal teams. This position offers the opportunity to contribute significantly to important projects without the need for extensive travel.

Qualifikationen

• PhD degree in economics by December 2025 / Summer 2026 with a focus on Applied Microeconomics.
• Experience in statistical software like Stata, Python, or R.
• Strong understanding of economic and financial concepts.

Aufgaben

• Identify and analyze market issues using economic models.
• Supervise and mentor research associate staff.
• Present client deliverables including reports and white papers.

Kenntnisse

Statistical analysis

Econometric modeling

Python programming

Excel

Data analysis

Effective communication

Ausbildung

PhD in economics

Tools

Stata

R

SAS

SQL

Jobbeschreibung

About Charles River Associates

About 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. Since 1965, CRA experts have combined rigorous cutting-edge research, state-of-the-art methodology, and proven experience to address our clients’ most complex challenges.

CRA's specialises in providing economic advice on matters of competition policy and regulation.We assist firms and their legal advisors in all types of competition proceedings before competition authorities and courts : mergers and acquisitions, abuse of dominance allegations, cartels, restrictive commercial agreements, market investigations, litigation and disputes, intellectual property or state aid. We also provide advice to regulatory authorities in similar matters.

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Practices seeking to hire candidates with this profile include (hiring locations listed) :

• Brussels, Belgium; London, UK; Dusseldorf and Munich, Germany; Paris, France)

Position Overview

Senior Associates work closely with senior consultants on project teams, and will have the opportunity to immediately work on some of the largest, high profile and most significant competition cases in Europe, playing a key role in shaping the economic analysis and thinking of these cases.Successful candidates have a strong knowledge of economic concepts and a range of research and quantitative skills. A typical Senior Associate would :

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

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Desired Qualifications

• PhD degree in economics with a completion date of December 2025 / Summer 2026 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; and
• Clear and demonstrated interest in consulting through coursework, work experience, activities, or attendance at CRA recruiting events.

As much of our work occurs in our offices, minimal travel is required.