Description ECONOMIC STRATEGIST This position is Remote
About the Position The Economic Strategist turns market, macroeconomic, and industry data into insights that shape the Company's growth, pricing, and investment strategy. This role advises senior leadership on how economic trends affect the business, identifies and evaluates revenue optimization opportunities, and ensures the quality of the analysis behind major decisions, in alignment with all Company policies, procedures, key objectives and regulations.
Our Ideal Candidate - Understands Industry Economic Trends
- Excellent Cross Functional communication skills
- Promotes and models the Company mission, vision and values
Day in the Life - Analyzes macroeconomic indicators, industry cycles, labor and materials costs, interest rates, and regional market conditions, and produces regular economic outlook reports for internal stakeholders.
- Builds forecasting and scenario models to support budgeting, bidding, pricing, and capital allocation, ensuring forecast accuracy and timely delivery of market insights.
- Assesses market opportunities and risks, including new geographies, service lines, and partnerships, and develops business cases and ROI analyses for strategic initiatives.
- Identifies and evaluates revenue optimization opportunities, including pricing, margin improvement, and mix of work; tracks revenue performance against forecasts and recommends adjustments to drive measurable revenue and margin improvements.
- Establishes and maintains quality assurance standards for models, data sources, and analytical outputs, including peer review and validation before results reach leadership, to ensure error-free deliverables.
- Tracks competitor and industry benchmarks and recommends responses.
- Delivers clear briefings and recommendations to executives and cross-functional teams, building leadership confidence in the economic assumptions behind major decisions and driving adoption of recommendations tied to measurable results
- Partners with Finance, Operations, and Business Development to turn insights into action.
- Consistently makes decisions in an attentive and safe manner to ensure the safety and health of self and others.
- Utilizes LEAN concepts or other continuous improvement methodologies to ensure the most efficient operations, processes, and activities.
- Promotes and models the Company mission, vision and values through exercising sound and ethical business practices, championing all elements of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and providing high quality services and programs as they relate to clients, subcontractors, co-workers, suppliers, and the public.
Minimum Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, Statistics, or a related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in economic analysis, strategy, consulting, or corporate planning.
- Strong skills in econometrics, forecasting, and financial modeling, with attention to detail and experience in model validation and quality assurance processes.
- Experience with revenue or pricing optimization.
- Proficiency in Excel and a data tool such as Python, R, or SQL, plus a business intelligence tool such as Power BI or Tableau.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex analysis simply to non-technical audiences.
- Preferred: Experience in construction, real estate, infrastructure, or other cyclical industries.
- Preferred: Familiarity with data sources such as BLS, FRED, Dodge, and ABC/AGC indices
Travel - Occasional travel may be required.
Benefits At ArchKey Solutions, our benefits package includes competitive health insurance options (medical, dental, and vision), a robust 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match, paid time off and holidays, and access to wellness programs. Additionally, we offer professional development opportunities, tuition reimbursement, and employee assistance programs to support your growth and well-being. We ensure that our benefits are designed to promote the health, security, and work-life balance of our employees. Additional information is available at Archkey.com.
