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About the Role

Charles River Associates (CRA) is a leading global consulting firm providing economic, financial, and business management expertise. We advise clients on complex business concerns, litigation, regulatory proceedings, and critical business strategy issues, combining industry experience with rigorous, fact-based analysis to deliver clear, implementable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with senior colleagues to deliver strategy consulting projects that address specific client needs in a specific industry.
• Conduct independent research to identify, collect, manage and analyze data using spreadsheets and statistical programs.
• Contribute to internal discussions that build insights from the analytical process and integrating findings into broader project deliverables.
• Conduct telephone or face-to-face interviews with clients or external stakeholders.
• Facilitate industry, market structure, and competitor-positioning studies using secondary research and/or primary research surveys or interviews.
• Investigate and analyze market rules, regulations, industry trends, or other documents.
• Assume responsibility for generating sections of client reports, presentations and other client deliverables (e.g. Excel workbooks and PowerPoint presentations) under supervision.
• Proactively develop your knowledge of an industry as well as consulting methodologies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree with strong academic performance.
• Experience with, or keen interest in, the sector of focus (energy, or other).
• Curious and analytical thinkers who bring creative approaches to non-standard problems.
• Understanding of how to conduct secondary research, critically interpret data, and summarize key takeaways.
• Effective written communication and oral presentation skills.
• Eagerness to learn new skills and programming languages.
• Demonstrated high level of initiative and leadership.
• Demonstrated attention to detail and commitment to producing accurate, high-quality work.
• Excellent teamwork and collaboration capabilities.
• Clear and demonstrated interest in consulting through coursework, work experience, activities, or attendance at CRA recruiting events.
• Periodic travel may be required.
• Resume including current address, personal email and telephone number.
• Cover letter describing interest in CRA and how the role matches goals, noting practice and/or location preference.
• Transcript (may be unofficial).
• Must be graduating from a bachelor's or master's degree program.

Skills

• Spreadsheet analysis
• Statistical programming
• Secondary research
• Primary research
• Data analysis
• Written communication
• Oral presentation
• Teamwork
• Collaboration
• Attention to detail

Location

• Boston
• New York
• Washington, DC

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Entry Level

Education Level

• Bachelor's Degree
• Master's Degree

Salary/Compensations

• $92,500 – $100,000

Benefits

• Robust skills development programs (100 hours of training annually)
• Research and analysis skill building
• Technical training
• Presentation skills training
• Internal seminars
• Career mentoring
• Performance coaching
• Leadership opportunities
• Collaboration opportunities
• Comprehensive total rewards program
• Superior benefits package
• Wellness programming
• In-house immigration support
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Paid time off (vacation, sick leave, holidays)
• Paid parental leave
• Employee assistance resources
• Commuter benefits

About the Company

• Charles River Associates is a leading global consulting firm that provides economic, financial, and business management expertise to major law firms, corporations and governments around the world.
• CRA advises clients on economic and financial matters pertaining to litigation and regulatory proceedings, and guides corporations through critical business strategy and performance-related issues.
• Since 1965, clients have engaged CRA for its combination of industry experience and rigorous, fact-based analysis that provide clients with clear, implementable solutions to complex business concerns.
• Our Energy practice provides expert economic and business consulting services to a range of energy and industrial clients, including electric utilities, investors, generators, regulators, renewable energy developers, oil and gas companies, and chemicals clients.
• Our Life Sciences practice helps pharmaceutical, biotechnology, diagnostics, and medical device companies achieve optimum performance across key aspects of their business, including innovation, commercial success, organization, and reputation, all for the long-term benefit of patients, clinicians, employees, and shareholders.
• We work with life sciences businesses directly as well as with their legal counsel, industry associations, government organizations, and advocacy groups from the earliest stages of research into new therapy areas, through product development, to the delivery of products that will achieve commercial success and fulfill the expectations of our clients and their key stakeholders.

Equal Opportunity

• Charles River Associates is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.