Associate Director

BRG is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Associate Director to join our growing Competition Economics Practice in Brussels. This senior consulting position is ideal for an analytical problem solver with strong leadership capabilities, exceptional organizational skills, and a passion for delivering high-quality economic analysis in complex competition and antitrust matters.

As an Associate Director, you will play a key role in both the execution and oversight of client engagements, leading multidisciplinary teams, managing client relationships, and contributing to the continued growth of the practice. You will work on a variety of high-profile competition and antitrust cases, applying rigorous economic analysis to real-world business challenges.

This role offers significant opportunities for professional development and advancement within a rapidly expanding global consulting firm.

Key Responsibilities

Project Leadership & Delivery

• Lead and oversee engagement workstreams, ensuring high-quality and timely delivery of client work.

• Manage, mentor, and develop junior consultants, providing guidance, supervision, and constructive feedback.

• Delegate responsibilities effectively while maintaining accountability for project outcomes.

• Review analyses and deliverables to ensure accuracy, consistency, and excellence.

Economic & Quantitative Analysis

• Design and execute sophisticated economic, statistical, and quantitative analyses.

• Develop and apply economic models using transactional, industry, and market datasets.

• Conduct competition economics and antitrust analyses across a range of industries.

• Apply creative and innovative analytical approaches to solve complex client issues.

Client Management

• Build and maintain strong client relationships through trusted advisory support.

• Present findings and recommendations clearly to clients, counsel, and other stakeholders.

• Contribute to expert reports and other client-facing deliverables.

Business Development & Practice Growth

• Support the expansion of client relationships and participate in BD initiatives i.e networking events.

• Lead or contribute to project proposals and business development initiatives.

• Develop thought leadership through publications, conference presentations, and industry articles.

• Stay informed of developments in competition policy, economics, and regulatory practice.

Required Qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Economics.

• Proven experience in competition economics analysis, ideally within a consultancy environment.

• Proven ability to manage projects, teams, and multiple stakeholder relationships.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with strong attention to detail.

• Commitment to delivering rigorous, high-quality work.

• Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills.

• Ability to thrive in a collaborative, team-oriented environment.

• Able to demonstrate a commitment and interest in growing the practice from mentoring and managing junior staff to actively participating in Business Development activities (no BD targets are included in this role).

Preferred Experience

• 5-10 years consulting experience in one of the leading competition consultancies

• Deep knowledge of EU competition law and experience working with relevant competition authorities.

• Experience supporting merger control, state aid or litigation matters.

• Proficiency with statistical and data analysis tools such as Stata, R, Python, SAS, or similar platforms.

Language Requirements

• Native or near-native fluency in English and one other European languagewith excellent written and verbal communication skills.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work on high-profile international competition and antitrust matters.

• Exposure to leading economists, legal teams, and senior decision-makers.

• A collaborative and entrepreneurial environment with significant career growth opportunities.

• The chance to contribute directly to the development of a rapidly expanding practice.

This position is ideal for a commercially minded competition economist looking to combine deep technical expertise, client leadership, and business development responsibilities in a dynamic consulting environment.

About BRG

BRG combines world-leading academic credentials with world-tested business expertise and purpose-built emerging technologies. Our culture centers on agility and connectivity which sets us apart and gets you ahead.  

At BRG, our professionals include specialist consultants, industry experts, renowned academics, and leading-edge data scientists. Together, they bring a diversity of real-world experience, data, and human and artificial intelligence, to economics, disputes, and investigations; corporate finance; and performance improvement services that address the most complex challenges facing organizations across the globe.

Our unique structure nurtures the interdisciplinary relationships that give us the edge, laying the groundwork for more informed insights and more original, incisive thinking.  When paired with our global reach and resources, our diverse perspectives and technical capabilities make us uniquely capable to address our clients’ challenges. We get results because we know how to apply our thinking to your world.

At BRG, we don’t just show you what’s possible. We’re built to help you make it happen. 

BRG is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.