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Job Description
You will be an Economist/Senior Economist within the Construction Economics team that sits within our Cost Management business providing construction cost information and economic trends to business stakeholders. You will work on a variety of Turner & Townsend projects and initiatives. These range from the production of the companies externally facing economic research documents to client focused fee earning reports.
Key Accountabilities:
- Production of our Canada Market Intelligence reports. All aspects of delivery undertaken each quarter including content creation design support and project management.
- Support the delivery of Turner & Townsends annual Global Construction Market Intelligence report. Regional management of data collation quality assurance and content review.
- Respond to journalists queries undertake media interviews and create insight articles to help build Turner & Townsendss brand.
- Regular delivery of presentations and webinars to global key accounts and at external and internal events.
- Delivery of fee earning work to maintain existing outputs while also generating new opportunities.
- Facilitate a business support function and provide the Canadian Cost Management division with construction economic information and research.
- Uphold a database of external and proprietary data ensuring compliant processes generating a series of dashboard reports with collated data.
- Maintain an online library of construction intelligence reports and have good knowledge of where relevant analysis and data can be sourced.
- Develop and cascade forecasts for key variables that influence Canadas construction industry and wider economy.
- Strategically advise leadership teams based on research and model outputs. Communicate findings with market sector leads on sector specific trends.
Desirable skills and experience
Previous experience or a sound and suitable understanding of the following will be a distinct advantage in applying for this role:
- Broad knowledge of the construction industry
- Knowledge of a programming language or willingness to learn; STATA R EViews SAS or similar statistical platforms
- Understanding of visual analytics software or willingness to learn; Tableau and Microsoft Power BI are of particular interest
- Knowledge of econometric techniques: economic impact assessment; cost benefit analysis; and forecasting models are desirable
- Excellent written and oral communication skills including the ability to explain economic concepts and quantitative results as well as their implications to nonspecialists in plain English for a business audience
- Proficiency in Excel
- Ability to work using own initiative and without close supervision.
Qualifications :
- Undergraduate Degree (or equivalent) in a course that is Economics based entirely or as part of a joint honours programme
- Masters Degree in Economics Finance Statistics or Mathematics (or related subjects) is sought
- Ideally hold or be working towards an appropriate professional body membership or equivalent.
Additional Information :
Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy productive and flexible working environment that respects worklife balance.
Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CVs that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list. Any speculative or unsolicited CVs will be treated as a direct application.
It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
