Sr Economist

Pilot Company

Sr Economist

Knoxville, TN
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Job Description

    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 long-term 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 high-quality presentations and other supporting materials for the Strategy Realization and leadership teams
  • Qualifications

    Qualifications

    • Master’s degree in economics
    • Master’s 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%
  • Compensation
    $104,025-$104,025 per year