Career options

Hold leadership positions in companies. Manage a specific department or gain experience and work your way up to general manager.  You’ll be prepared to make decisions, lead teams, and organize and coordinate resources.

Apply the expertise you’ve developed during the degree program to guide a functional area of a company or offer external consulting services in:

• Marketing: You’ll define and lead the strategies that a company will follow to make its product stand out in the market.
• Finance: You’ll have the training you need to manage a company’s economic resources, assess transactions, establish financial policies, etc.
• Operations: You’ll manage the resources and coordinate the teams that make up the chain that delivers the company’s product or service to its customers.
• Human Resources: You’ll select the best talent for a company, design a professional growth plan for new recruits, develop strategies to tap their full potential, and more.
• Digital Innovation: You’ll oversee the management of corporate information processes, both internally (among employees, teams and departments) and externally (with clients, suppliers and external collaborators). You’ll also lead the company’s innovation and digitization projects such as developing company or product websites, creating apps or designing a corporate image.

Many graduates use their skills and knowledge to launch their own successful startups. Over the course of your Esade BBA program, leading experts will teach you how to develop a business idea by analyzing the market, assessing viability, securing financing, and more...

Help people and companies earn a return on their investments. You’ll become familiar with the markets and the instruments available: financial derivatives, fixed-income investments, currency markets, commodities, stocks, the issue and sale of securities, etc.

Identify unlisted companies with high potential and develop strategies and plans to manage investments in them.

Offer guidance and expertise to other companies through a consulting firm. Consultants work in areas where companies often need support, such as marketing, human resources, and finance.

Analyze companies, or specific aspects of companies, to offer insights into problems. Companies often need to find out the reasons for a particular issue, the status of their accounts at a particular time, or whether or not they are managing their human resources properly. External auditors take a snapshot of the situation, draw up a report, identify solutions and establish channels for action.

Develop strategies and offer advice on the financial markets to individuals and companies. You’ll have the in-depth knowledge of the markets and the available trading tools you need to operate as an international stockbroker.

You can write studies on specific markets, advise on proposals for economic regulations, or conduct a macroeconomic analysis of a nation for governments, companies, or international organizations.

You can advise and develop cooperation projects, or international economic projects, for organizations, governments, or NGOs. Offer your expertise in macroeconomics, industrial organization and econometrics.

You can advise on investments, stock markets, and value financial products for medium and large companies, as well as banks and governments, investment companies, investment advisers, insurers, and financial companies.

You can work with centers and organizations dedicated to research and economic analysis – such as the IAE (Institute of Economic Analysis of the Spanish Research Council - CSIC) or the ICAE (Instituto Complutense de Análisis Económico).

Multinational companies need expert economic analysts to advise them on their activities around the world. Your multidisciplinary education combines economics, geopolitics, law, and international relations, helping you stand out to recruiters.

Governments, the International Monetary Fund, and the European Union have agencies dedicated to regulating and controlling markets. You can access positions in these organizations — although in some cases you must take entry exams.

You can advise and develop cooperation projects, or international economic projects, for organisations, governments, or NGOs. Offer your expertise in macroeconomics, industrial organisation and econometrics – especially in your geographical area of specialisation.

Help people and companies earn a return on their investments. You’ll become familiar with the markets and the instruments available: financial derivatives, fixed-income investments, currency markets, commodities, stocks, the issue and sale of securities, etc.

There are more than 66,000 international organisations you can work with as an expert advisor: you will have the necessary training to analyse transnational cases and provide advice on global economics.

You can advise organizations and governments in the prevention and management of international conflicts and manage international development projects. You can also work in the interaction between public and private organizations, and in political relations between governments.

You will be able to work with centers dedicated to research and political analysis: such as the IEE (Institute of European Studies); the ICPS (Institut de Ciències Politics i Socials); and the CEPS (Centre for European Policy Studies).

The European Union has various bodies specialized in political studies. You can access positions in these organizations (in some cases, you must take entry exams). There are also research centers and external consultants who advise these organizations and governments.

Multinational organizations need expert political analysts with knowledge of economics and law to advise them on their activities worldwide. For these companies, your multidisciplinary training combining politics, law, and international relations is of outstanding value.

You can advise organisations and governments in the prevention and management of international conflicts and manage international development projects. You can also work in the interaction between public and private organisations, and in political relations between governments.

Multinational organisations need expert political analysts with knowledge of economics and law to advise them on their activities worldwide. For these companies, your multidisciplinary training combining politics, law, and international relations is a strong differential value.

The European Union has various bodies specialised in political studies. You can access positions in these organisations (in some cases, you must take entry exams). There are also research centres and external consultants who advise these organisations and governments.