Senior Manager (Economic Advisory)
Job Description
What will you be doing?
S&W is launching a new Economic Advisory team, delivering high-quality advisory and expert services to corporates, regulators, government bodies and legal advisers. We’re looking for a Senior Manager to play a pivotal role in shaping, leading, and sustaining an inclusive, intellectually rigorous, and responsive working culture.
The role provides exposure to a broad range of clients, sectors, and types of work, and will particularly suit someone who enjoys varied projects and the collaborative, dynamic nature of working within a growing team.
As Senior Manager, your responsibilities will include among others
Client service
- Establishing and communicating work scopes
- Planning and preparation of budgets
- Performing/supervising work
Key Responsibilities
- Writing/reviewing reports
- Responsibility for client meetings
Growing the Business
- Networking and maintaining industry contacts
- Maintenance of team credentials database
- Assistance in preparing for work pitches
- Cross-selling and liaison with other departments
- Working alongside colleagues from other departments and maintaining cross-divisional contacts
Developing Self and Others
- Coach, guide, and develop junior team members
- Provide constructive feedback and aid in the development and appraisal of team member
Financial Management
- Manage projects to ensure margin targets are achieved, good recovery, and timely billing and payment
To be successful in this role, you should have
- Proven experience in economic advisory, competition economics, regulatory economics, public policy economics or applied microeconomics, gained within a leading professional services firm, specialist economics consultancy, regulator, government body, or regulated industry
- Technical expertise in one or more core economic consulting disciplines, including:
- Competition economics (e.g. mergers, market investigations, antitrust conduct, digital and platform
markets) - Regulatory economics (e.g. price controls, market design, regulatory frameworks, incentives)
- Economic valuation and financial economics
- Econometrics, quantitative modelling and data-driven analysis
- Strong track record delivering workstreams on complex projects, with accountability for quality and timelines
- Ability to translate complex analysis into clear, actionable insights and client-ready outputs.
- Experience working directly with clients, presenting analysis and providing insights
- Confident interpreting and challenging data and models
- Strong written and verbal communication for both technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience mentoring junior team members and coordinating across teams
- Collaborative, organised and quality-driven approach
- Exposure to proposals, bids and identifying new opportunities
- Commercially aware with strong stakeholder management skills
Professional Qualifications and Education
- Degree (or equivalent) in Economics, Econometrics or a closely related quantitative discipline
- A postgraduate qualification (Masters or PhD) in economics or a related field is desirable
As a colleague here at S&W you will have access to benefits that include
- Competitive salary
- Private medical insurance
- Life assurance
- Pension contribution
- Hybrid working model (role dependent)
- Generous holiday package
- Option to purchase additional holiday
- Shared parental leave
- Fully funded training towards professional qualifications
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Eye care support
We are proud to value the differences that a diverse workforce brings, representative of society and our clients. At S&W we have a wide range of highly active employee resource groups and we’re delivering multiple diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across the organisation. It is our commitment to provide a workplace where all colleagues, regardless of identity, background, or circumstance, feel respected as individuals and feel that they can achieve their full potential and work in a safe, supportive, and inclusive environment.
We are happy to make any reasonable adjustments to accommodate for your needs throughout the application process. Please let your Recruiter know.