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 planningRegularly monitor macroeconomic conditions and build on existing and/or develop new frameworks to report potential risks, proposed mitigation, and potential opportunities for the companyApply economic principles to illustrate how company actions influence market structure and how policy and market structure should inform the company strategyFacilitate scenario planning with descriptive analysis, empirical models, and game theory principlesPredict future economic conditions using statistical methodsEffectively communicate the significance of strategic insights to drive business decisionsDevelop high-quality presentations and other supporting materials for the Strategy Realization and leadership teams
