Economist - Construction

5 days ago


Leeds, United Kingdom Turner & Townsend Full time

Company Description
- At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society._
- Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 110 offices worldwide._

**Job Description**:
You will be an Economist / Senior Economist within the Economics, Research and Market Intelligence Unit of 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 responsibilities**
- Economic forecasting; model specification and estimation
- Evaluate macroeconomic and microeconomic trends that have a direct/indirect effect on the construction industry
- Prepare written reports and presentations to senior management, key clients and regional costs centres
- Development, analysis and maintenance of corporate datasets and reports
- Supporting the development of new data-driven services, solutions and products
- Providing technical expertise, training and support to non-experts
- Liaising with and gathering data and information from both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Manage aspects of economics research team and commissions as needed
- Establishing friendly and professional relationships with clients, colleagues and other parties involved in the projects and programmes we support.

**Qualifications**:

- Undergraduate Degree (or equivalent) in a course that is Economics based entirely, or as part of a joint honours programme
- Ideally hold or be working towards an appropriate professional body membership or equivalent.
- Broad knowledge of the construction industry
- Knowledge of a programming language or willingness to learn; STATA, R, E-Views, 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 non-specialists, in plain English for a business audience
- Proficiency in Excel
- Ability to work using own initiative and without close supervision.

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 work-life balance._

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SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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