Senior Consultant – Competition (Dutch-speaking)

Frontier Economics; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An economics consultancy in Greater London is seeking a Senior Consultant fluent in Dutch to join a dynamic team. The role involves distilling complex economic issues and delivering analytical insights. Candidates should have over two years of relevant experience, strong project management skills, and the ability to build trusting client relationships. The position offers competitive salaries, flexible working arrangements, and numerous benefits including professional development opportunities.

Benefits

28 days of annual leave + option to purchase 10 more

Flexible working arrangements

Access to Learning & Development opportunities

Competitive salary with profit-related bonuses

Qualifications

• Proven economics experience typically gained over two years in relevant consultancy or regulatory roles.
• Excellent communication skills; credible and influential with diverse audiences.
• Good project management skills with experience in multiple project oversight.

Responsibilities

• Distil complex economic issues for evidence-based arguments.
• Develop and structure substantial workstreams for timely delivery.
• Build strong relationships with clients to maximize project value.

Skills

Analytical skills

Excellent communication skills

Project management skills

Good commercial acumen

Data interrogation

Education

Economics experience (typically 2+ years)

Tools

Eclipse

Oracle

Redshift

.NET

Neo4j

Job description

Frontier Economics is an economics consultancy that tackles the big questions facing governments businesses and society. We help our clients to analyse and understand their markets and to formulate strategies based on sound economics. The methods and models we use are often complex but our advice is always succinct clear and honest.

The company has grown rapidly since it was founded over 25 years ago and currently has around 500 staff working across nine European offices (Amsterdam Berlin Brussels Cologne Dublin London Madrid Paris and Prague). The company is employee-owned and has a strong culture of openness and employee engagement.

We’re currently looking for fluent Dutch speakers to join our team. While we’re excited to have recently opened our brand new Amsterdam office we are also very happy to hear from candidates who are interested in roles in our other offices as long as they have the required level of Dutch language fluency.

Competition Practice at Frontier

Economics is essential to understanding the competitive dynamics of markets and economic evidence is a critical part of many competition law cases. We advise high-profile clients before the European Commission national competition authorities and national courts on all aspects of competition policy. We work closely with both clients and legal counsel providing a mix of strategic advice creative problem-solving and technical support. Technical excellence is a given and we have the skills and experience to pre-empt issues and tackle challenges in new and unexpected ways.

Job Description

Our Senior Consultants work within talented and engaged teams to distil complex economic issues enabling our clients to make evidence-based arguments and informed decisions. Senior Consultants utilise their analytical skills and economic tools to interpret data delivering exceptional outcomes. Confident in developing new analytical techniques our Senior Consultants handle a wide range of projects and services communicating effectively with diverse clients and successfully navigating various project situations.

Senior Consultants scope and structure substantial workstreams ensuring timely delivery and problem-solving as needed. Building strong trusting relationships with clients is key allowing Senior Consultants to help clients maximise the value of our work. Our Senior Consultants are adept at deciding how to share project outputs and defuse challenging situations ensuring client satisfaction and successful project completion.

Senior Consultants are expected to demonstrate the following competencies

Analysis and Problem Solving

• Scope and deliver a variety of projects; applying theoretical knowledge and techniques to provide valuable client insights.
• Design and specify analytical frameworks for both small and complex projects addressing client issues with minimal senior input.
• Oversee and integrate work from multiple team members ensuring quality and coherence in final outputs.
• Train and mentor colleagues in advanced technical approaches delegating sophisticated tasks effectively.

Communication Skills

• Lead various types of client meetings whilst considering different perspectives listening actively and appropriately challenging ideas.
• Structure review and edit client outputs with minimal input from others.
• Provide feedback and on-the-job training on all aspects of writing and presentation.
• Able to anticipate and address communication issues both within the team and with clients and assist clients in overcoming their own communication challenges.

Work Management Skills

• Scope and lead substantial workstreams demonstrating good project management skills throughout the project life cycle.
• Pro-actively manage budget scope and deliverables jointly with client with support from project managers.
• Delegate tasks and supervise colleagues on workstreams ensuring they are motivated and aware of expectations wider project and client content.
• Seek and respond to feedback from colleagues and clients.

Client Relationships Skills

• Build relationships beyond day to day projects networking regularly and appropriately with clients and other contacts.
• Identify and flag potential opportunities with new clients including for cross practice working and take them forward where appropriate.
• Seek formal and informal feedback for the workstream and act on what it shows.
• Help clients get the most value from our work by knowing how they will want to use it (as individuals and organisations).

Essential Requirements

• Proven economics experience typically gained over two years in an economics consultancy regulator or government department. Senior Consultant roles are designed for those with relevant work experience. If you have less than two years of experience we encourage you to apply for an Analyst position.
• Excellent communication skills; credible with the ability to influence a wide range of people.
• Good project management skills; able to motivate others with a clear purpose and manage multiple projects.
• Good commercial acumen; exercises good judgement to identify appropriate solutions.
• Good data skills able to interrogate data and produce actionable insight.

Frontier is entirely employee-owned. As shareholders we encourage everyone to share their views allowing us to collectively influence company decisions. We also distribute as much of our profits as prudently possible through bonuses complemented by highly competitive salaries.

We prioritise work / life balance by offering flexible working arrangements including the option to work from home. Employees enjoy 28 days of annual leave with the opportunity to purchase an additional 10 days.

Our stimulating and thought-provoking projects are complemented by a range of benefits that support you both inside and outside of work. Employees have access to numerous Learning & Development opportunities including ongoing Career Development Reviews with the support of a dedicated Mentor.

Should you have any questions or would like any additional information please email.

We are looking forward to receiving your application!

Frontier Economics is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race colour religion gender sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability status age or any other status protected by law. We are determined that everyone has an equal chance to join us and progress their career with Frontier. We care about creating an inclusive atmosphere and are committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in all its forms. Read more about our incentives here.

Key Skills

• Eclipse
• Disaster Recovery
• .NET
• High Availability
• Redshift
• Data Management
• IP Networking
• Neo4j
• Data Warehouse
• Pre-sales
• Oracle
• DynamoDB

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Required Experience : Senior IC