Call for applications: Analyst in China’s economic system (part-time / freelancer)

About CMG: CMG provides original and calibrated China policy and market analysis to advise on China strategies, cooperation concepts and negotiations for European private sector, governments and investors; in its policy analysis, it puts a particular focus on China’s economic, financial, foreign, trade, S&T and social policies – www.chinamacro.ch

Working location: Beijing, Zurich, or remote location

Primary role: support continuous economic policy tracking, trend assessment and deriving of strategic implications

Key responsibilities:

• Support CMG’s research on economic trends, policies and regulations in particular pertaining to ongoing reforms of China’s socialist market economy, market entities and ownership concepts, state sector and SOEs, public finance and fiscal policies, business environment policies, production factor liberalization, public procurement policies, industrial policies, opening-up and foreign direct investment, special economic zones,
  anti-monopoly and price setting policies, market governance policies as well as trade policies
• Special focus lies on tracking key economic policymakers including State Council, NDRC, MOFCOM, MOF, MOHURD and MIIT as well as especially the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR)

Your profile:

• Relevant academic training with bachelor education in China in fields such as economics, political economy, public finance or public policy complemented by an international post-grad education further solidifying economic expertise highly preferred
• A minimum of 3-5 years of relevant working experience in analytical and strategic roles in analyzing China’s economic market trends, policies and regulations; relevant networks in economic research circles a plus
• Up-to-date thematic expertise in all key areas backed up by practical experience especially in China, academic studies, further certificates and expertise on policy and regulatory research and advisory
• Understanding of implications from economic macro environment on foreign companies’ market
  engagement in China, strategic decision-making as well as strategic opportunities and challenges are a plus
• Strategic thinking, outstanding analytical, conceptual and problem-solving skills as well as strong quantitative skills including statistical methods and modelling
• Professional service mindset, creativity, can-do attitude, personal resourcefulness, dedication, cross-cultural
  awareness and agility to adapt to ever changing market and client needs aiming for recognized value-added
• Highest level of professional ethics in working on confidential client projects and ability to inspire trust in
  client communication and interaction
• Team-player and willingness to join CMG as a small but fast-growing boutique consultancy with foundation
  in Switzerland and China, but global outlook and European mission
• Native-level fluency in Chinese (Mandarin) and English – basic German a plus

If you would like to apply for this position, please contact career@chinamacro.ch .

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