Economist, Expert Consultant Intersect

Bain & Company; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

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About the job

Bain is expanding its energy transition modelling team. This role will be to provide economic modelling and coding assistance to deliver insights to our clients and support the continued development and maintenance of INTERSECT, Bain's proprietary Carbon and Energy Transition modelling capability, built in partnership with Copenhagen Economics. The role will be part of a growing center of excellence in all aspects of the energy transition and will be focused on the quantitative assessment of future energy pathways across different technologies and energy vectors. This will be a client facing role where your insights and analysis will help shape the future energy landscape at the highest strategic level.

Brief Description

Bain has invested in developing a global computable general equilibrium (CGE) model that is used to provide unique insights on the future evolution of energy transition in a way that is both explicitly quantitative and internally consistent. This role will be to support the continued deployment of the model and inform our clients' toughest questions about the energy transition. This will involve running model simulations, to provide bespoke scenarios and sensitivities around a wide range of model parameters and assumptions; building new modules to expand the model's coverage and contributing to the construction of supply and demand forecasts for different technologies taking account of the future evolution of costs and prices.

You will be part of a varied team that includes both other economists and general consultants and will report to an experienced economic modeler. The expectation is that you will be engaged on live client cases for most of the time, in conjunction with your wider team. You will have the support of our leadership team to help you develop and our Expert Senior Managers will actively mentor and advise you to help you take your career to the next level.

What you will bring

1. A post-graduate degree, either masters or PhD, in economics or econometrics; with a focus on CGE modelling, energy economics or natural resource economics.
2. Experience of coding equilibrium models and optimization problems, ideally in GAMS.
3. Experience of working with equilibrium models and large social account matrices.
4. A keen interest in the energy transition and a desire to apply your skills in a commercial environment.
5. Strong analytical skills and an inherent ability for problem solving.
6. Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work with teams of individuals and colleagues at all levels inside and outside the organization.
7. Ability to work calmly and enthusiastically in a dynamic environment.
8. An ability to simultaneously support multiple project engagements and develop robust economic frameworks and models.
9. Over time, the ability to bring these capabilities together to be able to work independently and think creatively.
10. Ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner.
11. Proficiency in verbal and written English.

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