Managing Economist

BRG is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

Position Title: Managing Economist

Location: Washington, DC

Position Type: Full time

Requisition : JR100549

BRG currently has over 40 offices across the United States and internationally. This position can be located in either our Washington, DC;
New York, NY; or Boston, MA offices.

Recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Management Consulting Firms, we have ranked as a Top Economics Consulting by Global Competition Review for the Eleventh Consecutive year.

BRG Healthcare Analytics professionals bring extensive industry experience to deliver data driven, independent, and innovative approaches to complex legal, regulatory, and business challenges. Our core strength is the ability to harness and analyze large amounts of electronic healthcare data and turn it into meaningful and insightful information. Healthcare companies trust our independent thinking and ability to solve unstructured problems. We serve a range of healthcare clients including payors, providers, life sciences companies, and the legal and financial firms that work with the industry.

We need highly intelligent and motivated Economists, Healthcare Economists, and/or Econometricians that want to address real-world applied economics questions. This position requires a highly motivated problem solver with robust analytical ability, strong organizational and writing skills, and a desire to collaborate as an integral part of our project teams. Ideal candidates will have prior experience and/or a deep interest in litigation or economic consulting.

The work will involve both execution and oversight of engagement work streams that may be either quantitative or qualitative in nature, with responsibilities to include design of economic, statistical, and financial analyses, inferential and predictive modeling, management of existing client relationships, development and presentation of client deliverables, management of junior staff, quality control, industry research, and expansion of business. This position offers advancement opportunities within a rapidly growing expert services and consulting firm.

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate creativity and efficient use of relevant software tools, analytical methods and computer models to develop solutions.
• Plan and manage all aspects of small to medium sized client engagements and discrete segments of larger projects.
• Delegate assignments to staff, instruct and monitor progress, and review work product for completeness and accuracy.
• Develop analyses, financial, econometric and statistical models using transactional data and/or financial data.
• Design and generate client deliverables and make valuable contributions to expert reports. Manage client relationships and communicate results and work product as appropriate.
• Prioritize assignments and responsibilities to meet goals and deadlines.
• Participate in group practice meetings, contribute to business development initiatives and office functions such as staff training and recruiting.

Qualifications:

• Ph.D. (preferred) or Master’s degree in economics, statistics, or health economics
• Experience in generation and application of econometric modeling techniques
• Prior internships or work experience in economic or litigation consulting a plus.
• Keen interest in economic, statistical, or financial analysis and research
• Strong record of technical expertise through past publications that you have authored
• Proven capability with MS Excel and analytical software/relational database program(s) (e.g., SAS, Stata, MS SQL Server, R, MS Access, SPSS). A desire to expand on those capabilities
• Excellent communication, critical thinking, analytical and proven leadership skills

Job title and compensation will be determined based on education, qualifications, and experience. We are considering talent at the Consultant, Managing Consultant, or Senior Managing consultant level.

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