Senior Manager

**Senior Manager - Economic Strategy** - Singapore

**Who we are**:
Access Partnership is the world’s preeminent tech policy consultancy: corporates seek our advice on bringing their tech to market, and governments need our advice to regulate tech so that all stakeholders are treated fairly and can benefit from it. We partner with the world’s largest and most innovative organisations in a market that is growing exponentially. Our firm uniquely mixes public policy, economics and engineering competencies to achieve our goals. We are growing globally, with offices in London, Brussels, Singapore, Washington, Abu Dhabi, and Johannesburg.

You will work alongside some of industry’s most influential thought leaders and be responsible for delivering client objectives and helping to grow the Economic Strategy practice in all regions of the world.

About the department - Economics Strategy

The Economics Strategy practice is a team of economists, econometricians, and public policy advisors. We advise our clients from the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors on the forces shaping their markets, helping them to make better informed decisions, and assisting them with developing strategies to create prosperity and well-being for themselves and the communities they are part of. We have a focus on topics related to digitalisation, economic development, international trade, sustainability and social impact. We are committed to helping solve the world’s most complex problems.

**What you’ll do**:
As a Senior Manager you will play a key role in practice leadership, including people and project leadership.

As well as holding responsibility for your own deliverables and schedule, you will be accountable for leading the work of others. You will be expected to lead consulting project teams, from managing the working relationship with clients, planning the work of the team, and contributing your individual expertise to problem solving - on both technical and project management issues. Your tasks could include developing research methodologies including primary research design, developing approaches to data analysis including specifying economic and econometric models, drafting and reviewing client deliverables, as well as making client and public presentations. You will help create a culture of quality, by implementing quality assurance measures and risk management approaches on projects, to ensure high client satisfaction.

You will build strong client relationships by delivering real client value through a genuine understanding of client needs. You will have a solid background in economics, and a passion for using your training to work with clients to solve their real-world problems. You will bring a commercial mindset to client discussions, with a clear understanding of the role and value-add of professional advisers.

**What you’ll need**:

- Undergraduate degree in Economics or Public Policy from a reputable university, and a strong academic track record.
- Substantive experience leading people in a direct reporting relationship, or as part of discrete projects.
- Capability to influence stakeholders at all levels, and the ability to “put yourself in the perspective of the audience”.
- Substantive experience in delivery management and time management, from an individual and a team perspective.
- Proficiency with productivity tools such as Word, Powerpoint, and Excel.

**Nice to have**:

- Advanced proficiency with statistical packages such as R, Python, and Stata.
- Experience at Associate Director, or Senior Manager within the Big-4, or leading a team or practice area within comparable consulting firms.

**How we work**:
We work in a hybrid/remote fashion, with employees aligning to one of our global offices, and typically working two days per week in the office, and three days remotely.

This role is aligned to our Singapore office.

Our diverse international client base of technology giants and start-ups will provide the opportunity to work on multiple international projects on behalf of some of the industry’s leading companies. Our firm boasts a collaborative working environment, social events and a robust support system. We are committed to providing training and professional development for all colleagues.