Who we are:
Access Partnership is the world’s leading tech policy consultancy. We enable consumer access to technology and lead countries to Fair Tech. To do this, we create the environment that allows governments to adopt technologies effectively and responsibly by analysing global trends for the risks and opportunities they create for technology businesses and users of technology, identifying strategies to mitigate those risks and driving opportunities to our clients’ advantage. Our firm uniquely mixes public policy and engineering competencies to achieve our goals. We have offices in London, Brussels, Singapore, Washington, Abu Dhabi, and Johannesburg—and are growing.
Practice
The Access Partnership 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, and enable them to make better informed decisions by leveraging rigorous analysis supported by robust evidence, with the purpose to drive growth and improve well-being for themselves as well as the communities they are part of.
We combine the robustness of economic analysis with a practical appreciation of business and government, to support our clients in making and communicating their critical investment and public policy decisions.
The Role
As an Associate Director within the Economics Strategy Practice, you will play a key role in Practice leadership, serving as a people and project manager.
You will have substantive economics advisory, strategy consulting, or experience in public sector projects and will use that expertise to drive business development and contribute to client pitches and proposals. You will also oversee project delivery and mentor the consultant teams you are part of.
You will be accountable for commercial growth of a sub-Practice area and contribute to operational excellence of the Practice, as well as be expected to actively drive growth in major revenue areas and support key client account teams. You will build trusted client relationships and deliver exceptional client solutions. You will play a senior role on projects to ensure rigorous quality assurance across all project outputs. This includes leading consulting project teams, managing the relationship with our client and contributing your individual expertise to problem solving – on technical, and project and client management issues. You will also lead cross-Practice teams, to leverage subject matter expertise from across the organisation in areas such as AI, digital, and connectivity, financial services, health, and public sector.
You will have a solid background in consulting and a strong grasp of economic concepts, as well as a passion for working with clients to solve their real-world problems. You will also be intellectually curious and thrive on playing a role in addressing challenges at the intersection of economics, public policy, and technology. You will be an adept problem-solver, able to support your project teams to arrive quickly at critical issues and guide them on the approach to resolve them.
What you'll do:
Client impact
· Identify relevant opportunities to drive growth within key client accounts and groups
Build strong client relationships by delivering real client value through a genuine understanding of client needs.
Drive new business initiatives across new and existing accounts, overseeing the quality of all client-facing work.
Ensure that client proposals, research reports, presentation materials, and other products, are at a client-ready level of quality.
Project delivery
· Oversee delivery of high-impact projects, resolving complex challenges and ensuring consistent, high-quality outcomes.
Ensure strong project governance, so that the structure of accountability and responsibility support effective project delivery and output quality, as a means of ensuring client delivery success.
Help to create a culture of quality, by implementing quality assurance measures and risk management approaches on projects, to ensure high client satisfaction.
Practice management
Support the Practice Head to build, develop, manage, and motivate a high-performing Practice team.
Maintain a curious mindset and fostering a Practice and project environment that encourages and rewards curiosity among team members.
Provide guidance and mentorship to Practice team members.
Ensure existing workflows and processes are adhered to and constantly look for opportunities to improve efficiency.
Strategic Planning & Growth
Support the articulation of the strategic vision for the Practice team, within the context of the firm’s strategy, so as to contextualise tactical objectives, and help engender support for achieving the firm’s and Practice’s goals.
Proactively identifies and works to support the pursuit of opportunities to grow the Practice.
Anticipate broad client and industry challenges and ensure that the firm and Practice is always ahead of the curve.
What you'll need:
A degree in economics, public policy, statistics or other relevant discipline from a reputable university, and a strong academic track record. A post-graduate qualification (i.e., Masters or PhD) would be highly regarded, although not essential.
At least 8 years of experience working with senior decision-makers, often at a top-tier strategy consulting firm, an economics advisory firm, or in a senior public sector role.
Strong capability to influence stakeholders at all levels, and the ability to “put yourself in the perspective of the audience”.
Experience leading people in direct reporting relationships, or as part of discrete projects.
Demonstrable experience in the digital economy, international trade, economic and industry development, health, and labour and skills would be highly regarded.
Structured research and analysis skills, and an understanding of various quantitative and qualitative analysis tools and techniques. Proficiency with statistical packages such as R, Python, EViews, and Stata would be highly regarded.
What we offer you:
We work in a flexible hybrid model, typically aligning each employee to one of our global offices, with each person spending 2 days per week in the office, and 3 days remote.
Our diverse, international client base of technology giants, start-ups and governments will provide the opportunity to work on multiple projects on behalf of industry leading companies.
We boast a collaborative working environment, social events and a robust support system. We are committed to providing training and professional development for all colleagues.
