Senior Associate, Antitrust & Competition Economics

Charles River Associates; Paris; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Charles River Associates (CRA) is seeking a Senior Associate to work with senior consultants on Europe-wide competition cases, shaping economic analyses and client deliverables.

You will design models, supervise staff, and present findings to lawyers and clients, leveraging strong quantitative skills and a PhD in economics. This role offers growth, collaboration, and opportunities across CRA's EU offices.

Qualifications

• PhD in economics with completion around December 2026/Summer 2027 with focus on Applied Microeconomics or Applied Microeconometrics.
• Experience in Excel, Stata, Python, R, SQL, SAS, ArcGIS/ArcPy, or Cloud computing.
• Demonstrated ability to explain economic/financial concepts and quantitative methods.
• Curious, analytical thinkers with creative approaches to non-standard problems.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Willingness to learn new skills and programming languages.
• Demonstrated initiative, leadership and teamwork.
• Excellent time management and prioritization; demonstrated interest in consulting.

Responsibilities

• Identify issues, specify rigorous economic models to analyse market issues and data, undertake econometric estimation, and manage the work of research associate staff and colleagues.
• Supervise, train and mentor research associate staff.
• Assist in 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 packages (Stata, Python, R, SAS, Matlab, Mathematica), including large data projects requiring cloud computing.
• Ensure the integrity and accuracy of analyses and opinions.
• Contribute to practice-building activities (training, recruiting, publication, expertise sharing, etc.).

Skills

Curious analytical thinkers

Strong teamwork

Leadership

Effective communication

Education

PhD in economics

Tools

Excel

Stata

Python

R

SQL

SAS

ArcGIS/ArcPy

Cloud computing (Databricks/Spark, Google Cloud, Azure, AWS)

Job description

Charles River Associates (CRA) is seeking a Senior Associate to work with senior consultants on Europe-wide competition cases, shaping economic analyses and client deliverables.

You will design models, supervise staff, and present findings to lawyers and clients, leveraging strong quantitative skills and a PhD in economics. This role offers growth, collaboration, and opportunities across CRA's EU offices.