Sr Liaison- Economist (Memphis, TN)

Provides economic leadership, coordination, analytics and training along strategic, financial, statistical and business analytics lines to help formulate and guide enterprise tactics and strategies. In coordination with the Senior Director and staff of the Center of Excellence in Analytics, the Chief Strategy Officer and the management of operating divisions, advises the Executive Team and functional departments on the implications of enterprise and operational tactics and strategies through exhaustive economic/econometric analysis of complex data; provides actionable insight to operating and strategic decisions; and forecasts outcomes based on trends and verifies outcomes with analysis to demonstrate new improvements available. Also assists senior leaders at the divisional and enterprise levels to help the organization reach its operating and financial goals through in-depth statistical analysis of available data; designing and executing tests and experiments to answer key questions; maps actionable strategies and tactics to capture increased efficiency and gain better market/operational understanding.

Requirements

• Requires thorough knowledge of statistical theory and practice in a business setting
• Full literacy with statistical application and analysis packages, especially R and SPSS.
• Requires deep knowledge and experience with economic, consumption, customer, financial and other data, including but not limited to analysis and interpretation of economic, financial, operational and econometric data;
• Event data analysis; stochastic process modeling using simulation for predictive modeling.
• Must have experience building working classification models and applying design of experiments (DOE) with strong interpersonal skills so as to enable multifunctional team working in heavily data-driven problem analysis involving econometrics, behavioral economics, consumer psychology and customer data
• Working knowledge of MS Office Suite, Crystal Ball, AnyLogic or other agent-based Simulation Programs; excellent problem solving and organizational skills; ability to publicly speak, write and present persuasively and clearly on very abstract problems for internal/external relations
• Ability to train others on complex economic, econometrics and statistical concepts and also on the operating of programming-driven statistical packages (e.g. – R);
• Ability to think strategically and derive strategic direction based on donor and business trends internally and externally; understand complex verbal or written instructions;
• Knowledge ordinarily acquired through a Ph.D. in economics with plus 5 years or a Master’s Degree in Statistics with plus 10+ years of proven experience in statistical data analysis, stochastic modeling and predictive modeling, where in-depth statistical data analysis and interpretation are required.
• Must possess a valid driver’s license.

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