Senior Associate (2025 PhD/ABD graduates) (Competition practice)

TN Germany; Düsseldorf; Vor Ort; EUR 60.000 - 100.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Join an innovative consulting firm that tackles complex economic challenges across Europe. As a Senior Associate, you'll collaborate with senior consultants on high-profile competition cases, utilizing your strong economic knowledge and quantitative skills. Your role will involve conducting rigorous analyses, mentoring junior staff, and presenting findings to clients. This position offers a unique opportunity to shape impactful economic strategies while working in a dynamic team environment. If you're a curious thinker with a passion for consulting and a desire to make a difference, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifikationen

• PhD in economics with focus on Applied Microeconomics or Microeconometrics.
• Strong knowledge of economic concepts and quantitative skills.

Aufgaben

• Identify and analyze market issues using economic models.
• Supervise and mentor research associates in project teams.

Kenntnisse

Economics

Statistical Analysis

Quantitative Research

Communication Skills

Analytical Thinking

Ausbildung

PhD in Economics

Tools

Excel

Stata

Python

R

SAS

SQL

Cloud Computing

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06.05.2025

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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. For nearly 60 years, CRA experts have combined rigorous cutting-edge research, state-of-the-art methodology, and proven experience to address our clients’ most complex challenges.

CRA specializes 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.

Learn more about our work by reviewing our Services and Industries on our website.

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 conceptualize issues, specify rigorous economic models to analyze 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 summarizing 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.).

Explore how CRA can help you and learn more on our website.

Desired Qualifications

• PhD degree in economics with a completion date of December 2024/Summer 2025 and an academic focus on Applied Microeconomics or Applied Microeconometrics, with specializations like industrial organization, labor, health, behavioral, 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.