Senior Associate

**About Charles River Associates**

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's European Competition practice 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.
- Learn more about our work by reviewing our Services and Industries on our _website_._
- Antitrust & Competition Economics (Brussels, Belgium; London, UK; Dusseldorf and Munich, Germany; Paris, France)

**Position Overview**
- 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 2024/Summer 2025 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, mínimal travel is required._

**To Apply**

To be considered for a **position in Europe**:

- Submit through this job posting:

- **Covering letter** - please describe your interest in CRA and how this role matches your goals. Also, please note if you have a location preference;
- **Research/Job market paper** - please submit your original research or dissertation.

**Career Growth and Benefits**
- CRA’s robust skills development programs, including a commitment to offering 100 hours of training annually through formal and informal programs, encourage you to thrive as an individual and team member. Beginning with project management skills, training continues with team management/development, client presentation skills, internal seminars, and career mentoring and performance coaching from an assigned senior colleague. Additional leadership and collaboration opportunities exist through internal firm development activities.
- We offer a comprehensive total rewards program including a competitive salary and superior benefits package (plus a sizeable performance bonus), wellness programming to support physical, mental, emotional and financial well-being, and in-house immigration support for foreign nationals and international business travelers.

**Work Location Flexibility**

***CRA creates a work environment that enables our colleagues to benefit from being together in the office to best deliver on our promise of career growth, mentorship and inclusivity. At the same time, we recognise that individuals realize a range of benefits when working from home periodically. We currently ask that i