Lead Economist - Macro Consulting EMEA - Dubai

Department: Macro Consulting

Location: Dubai, UAE

Description

Oxford Economics, a leading economic forecasting and consulting firm, is looking to grow their EMEA Macro Consulting team based in our growing Dubai office. We are looking to expand the team in the Dubai office as we seek to capitalize on growth opportunities in the region. The Middle East is a key market for Oxford’s growth objectives, where we already have some significant consultancy projects and aim to rapidly grow revenues from subscriptions and consultancy.

The position will focus on design, implementation and delivery of a variety of economic consultancy modelling projects for the Mideast region. Typically this involves 1-2 large-scale projects at a time, which often involve cross-team and cross-office working.

Key Responsibilities

More specifically, the role will entail:

• Project management - lead on a wide range of macro consultancy projects for clients in the MidEast region, with a focus on macro modelling using and customising OE’s Global Economic Model. Take a client-facing role to interpret their needs and use this to design best-in-class model solutions. Take ownership of project deliverables, deadlines and finances to ensure timely delivery within budget, and manage the internal team across OE in delivering the project.
• Business development – proactively seek business opportunities by creating relationships with entities in the region (existing and new clients) and drive the generation of new sales via initial lead generation (often working closely with BD subs), proposal writing and pitches, and involvement in designing and implementing the ME modelling business development strategy.
• Client/ account management – take on account management for existing clients, support on queries and delivery of existing projects, and build new business by recommending areas of further work and development.
• Presenting – present our best solution to clients in a convincing way, defend our thinking in well-designed presentation decks which have a strong storyline.
• Product development and innovation - use modelling experience to design full, partial or non-GEM based model solutions for clients to expand the team’s product offering, as well as contributing to developing efficient internal systems for existing projects. Use these projects as channels to develop skills in more junior team members.
• Support other teams including production teams such as the MidEast government advisory team for non-modelling projects, and the sales and marketing through presentations of Oxford’s view and products.
• Travel – travel regularly within the MidEast region, through regular project work, capacity building and OE GEM model demos on client sites.
  
  

• Strong academic education in Economics (including macroeconomics) at postgraduate level.
• Previous experience in developing and using applied macroeconomics models for forecasting and/or scenario analysis.
• Previous experience in a client-facing consulting role in the Middle East, including with government clients (desired).
• Project management.
• Previous experience in business development and proposal writing.
• Excellent analytical and quantitative skills.
• Ability to work effectively in teams across different offices and to tight deadlines, and managing and developing more junior staff.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
• Strong Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills.