Senior Economist – EMEA Consulting - Tourism Economics
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About the Role
Oxford Economics is hiring a Senior Economist for its Tourism Economics consulting team in Dubai. You will lead economic modeling, manage consulting projects, and develop client relationships in the tourism sector.
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Responsibilities
- Lead economic modelling workstreams and develop innovative solutions to address clients' research questions
- Ensure robust and rigorous economic analysis in the delivery of consultancy projects
- Apply and assure quantitative analytical techniques as applied to large datasets
- Handle clients and potential clients effectively and develop Tourism Economics’ relationship with them
- Assist in the development of research proposals, project reports, and presentations
- Plan and structure projects, coordinating input from a range of team members, ensuring sufficient time for quality assurance
- Work collaboratively with project teams and senior stakeholders, incorporating feedback effectively
- Be entrepreneurial and proactive in the identification and pursuit of new business opportunities
Requirements
- At least 5 years experience of client facing work and the ability to develop commercial relationships with potential clients
- Substantial experience of economic analysis, including familiarity with analytical techniques such as IO modelling, cost benefit analysis and econometrics
- Excellent analytical and Excel modelling skills
- Evidence of being proactive and creative in using economics to answer clients’ questions
- Very strong report writing skills, including the ability to explain economic concepts and quantitative results to non specialists
- Excellent attention to detail and a commitment to producing rigorous, accurate work
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Description
- Tourism Economics is a subsidiary of Oxford Economics dedicated to analytically based consulting to the tourism sector.
- Oxford Economics is one of the world’s leading economics consultancies, providing advice to international institutions, governments and blue chip companies.
- We are looking to hire a Senior Economist to join the consulting team at Tourism Economics.
- Our team provides a range of analytical services to clients including quantifying economic impact, developing tourism satellite accounts, performing cost benefit analyses, examining ROI, and constructing tailored forecasts.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading economic modelling workstreams and developing innovative solutions to address clients' research questions.
- Ensuring robust and rigorous economic analysis in the delivery of consultancy projects.
- Applying and assuring quantitative analytical techniques as applied to large datasets.
- Handling clients and potential clients effectively and developing Tourism Economics’ relationship with them.
- Assisting in the development of research proposals, project reports, and presentations.
- Planning and structuring projects, and coordinating input from a range of team members, ensuring sufficient time for quality assurance.
- Working collaboratively with project teams and senior stakeholders, incorporating feedback effectively and addressing comments in a timely manner.
- Being entrepreneurial and proactive in the identification and pursuit of new business opportunities.
- For the right candidate, line management of one or two team members.
Skills, Knowledge And Expertise
- At least 5 years experience of client facing work and the ability to develop commercial relationships with potential clients.
- Substantial experience of economic analysis, including familiarity with analytical techniques such as IO modelling, cost benefit analysis and econometrics.
- Excellent analytical and Excel modelling skills.
- Evidence of being proactive and creative in using economics to answer (external, internal or policymaker) clients’ questions.
- Very strong report writing skills, including the ability to explain economic concepts and quantitative results, as well as their implications, to non specialists.
- Excellent attention to detail and a commitment to going the extra mile to produce rigorous, accurate work, within the constraints of the time and resources available.
Desirable
- Experience in delivering consulting projects within the tourism sector.
- A post graduate degree in economics.
- Experience with quantitative analysis software such as Python, R, Stata.
- Experience in proposal writing.
- Experience with delivering consulting projects focused on the GCC region.
- Experience of client facing work and the ability to develop commercial relationships with potential clients.
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