The Senior Economist plays an essential role within the Strategy Realization Team to evaluate the impact of macroeconomic trends on the business and generate insights and strategic recommendations to support business planning.
The candidate will need to be able to extract insights from data and communicate risks opportunities and actions to senior leadership to enable future growth strategies.
- Research collect analyze and summarize economic and industry (e.g. travel centers) data to develop forecasts to aid in the formulation of short and longterm business planning
- Regularly monitor macroeconomic conditions and build on existing and/or develop new frameworks to report potential risks proposed mitigation and potential opportunities for the company
- Apply economic principles to illustrate how company actions influence market structure and how policy and market structure should inform the company strategy
- Facilitate scenario planning with descriptive analysis empirical models and game theory principles
- Predict future economic conditions using statistical methods
- Effectively communicate the significance of strategic insights to drive business decisions
- Develop highquality presentations and other supporting materials for the Strategy Realization and leadership teams
Qualifications :
- Masters degree in economics
- Masters degree in economics and 2 years of professional experience in applied economics preferred
- Applied economic analysis
- Mathematical methods (e.g. theories of choice game theory)
- Applied econometrics
- Familiarity working with large datasets such as FRED BLS BEA Bloomberg Factset Circana and Nielsen
- Solid understanding of global macroeconomic and geopolitical factors and trends
- Experience with econometrics databases and programming languages such as Python R and/or Stata
- Experience with and fuel markets travel center and convenience stores or retail is a plus
Additional Information :
- General office work requiring sitting or standing for long periods of time
- Travel required less than 5%
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime