Responsibilities
- Produces executive papers, economic outlook briefings, decision decks, and briefing materials that support informed executive decision-making.
- Prepares summaries of macroeconomic conditions, construction market trends, cost drivers, scenario modeling, and rapid-turnaround briefs on emerging economic risks and opportunities.
- Conducts research and analysis on macroeconomic indicators and construction-specific drivers such as materials, labour availability, and supply chain trends.
- Assesses the financial, operational, and strategic impacts of economic and market developments, and develops evidence-based recommendations aligned with enterprise priorities.
- Translates technical economic data into accessible executive-level narratives.
- Gathers input from finance, operations, procurement, strategy, and other stakeholders, consolidating diverse information into integrated analysis.
- Supports leadership in preparing for board discussions, investor conversations, government engagements, and other strategic initiatives.
- Contributes to strategic planning by identifying economic risks, market opportunities, and long-term trends, and supporting scenario-based planning, forecasting, capital planning, and market positioning.
- Monitors economic indicators, construction market trends, competitor activity, labour markets, material pricing, and industry developments, providing early warning on emerging risks and opportunities.
- Drafts economic outlooks, briefing notes, talking points, and executive summaries for leadership, board members, and external stakeholders.
- Supports organizational messaging for government relations and market positioning, ensuring economic analysis is accurate, consistent, and strategically aligned.
Qualifications
- A bachelor’s degree or higher in economics, finance, business, statistics, or a related field.
- 5–10 years of experience in economic analysis, finance, strategy, or a related discipline.
- Strategic thinking skills, with the ability to connect economic conditions to business strategy and anticipate implications for the organization.
- Analytical rigor, with strong quantitative skills and comfort with ambiguity, forecasting, and multi-variable economic environments.
- Executive communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex data into concise, decision-oriented messaging.
- Stakeholder engagement skills, with the capacity to work cross-functionally with finance, operations, and leadership teams.
- Business and market acumen, including a deep understanding of economic drivers and their impact on the construction industry and organizational performance.
- Proficiency in leveraging data, reporting, visualization, and AI-assisted research tools to generate insights and support evidence-based decision-making.
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Primary Location: Edmonton, Alberta (Corporate)
Job Title: Economic Analyst
Requisition ID: 13220