Business Researcher

Job Purpose:

To conduct high quality economic and business research that is relevant to Dubai Chambers members with the view of supporting Dubai Chamber to create a favorable business environment, support business intelligent initiatives and policy development, and promote Dubai as a global business hub.

Key Accountabilities:

Responsibilities

• Support the design of research frameworks, surveys, and analytical models.
• Conduct economic, sectoral, and market research using quantitative and qualitative methods
• Analyze trade, investment, and business data to identify trends and opportunities.
• Collaborate with internal teams to support strategic planning and policy
• Translate complex economic findings into clear, business-friendly insights and present it to senior management and stakeholders. Contribute to forecasting, scenario analysis, and economic outlook studies.

Policies, Systems, Processes and Procedures

• Contribute to the identification of opportunities for the continuous improvement of departmental systems, policies, processes and practices considering ‘international leading practices’ to improve productivity and operational efficiency.
• Provide critical input to support the development of Department’s systems, policies, processes, and procedures to meet business requirements.
• Ensure team members comply with all Department’s policies, processes, standard operating procedures and instructions so that work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner.

Information Security

• Adherence to the information security policies/processes/program and for reporting any security breaches or incidents to the direct management.

Quality, Health, Security, Safety and Environment

• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and relevant quality, health, safety, security and environmental procedures and controls across the Department to guarantee employee safety and delivery of high-quality services.

Reporting

• Prepare reports in a timely and accurate manner to meet the departmental requirements, policies and standards.

Others

• Other relevant tasks of the job purpose when, and if required

Qualifications & Experience:

Minimum Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Business studies, International Trade, Finance and/or related fields.

Minimum Experience and Skills

• Minimum 4 - 6 years of experience in economic research, business analysis, or consulting.
• Knowledge and understanding of the Chamber’s services.
• Strong understanding of macroeconomic and business indicators.
• Experience working with large datasets and statistical tools.
• Previous experience of managing research projects.
• Familiarity with trade, investment, or sector analysis is an advantage.
• High command of English (Reading, Spoken, and Written) Arabic is preferable and or an advantage.

Technical skills

• Proficiency in MS Office
• Experience with Power BI, R, STATA or similar analytical software
• Strong research and report-writing skills
• Knowledge of statistical and econometric methods is a plus