Urban Economist

**Company Description**
Let's SOCOTEC your potential

Joining SOCOTEC means joining an active and ambitious community of 11,000 experts (turnover of €1,4MM in 2024 compared to €510M in 2016,), players in the city of tomorrow, ready to take up new challenges in the field of Testing, Inspection and Certification in Construction, Infrastructure and Industry.

We provide risk management and technical consulting services and support our clients throughout the asset cycle.

Our objectives are to ensure their compliance, extend their lifespan, improve their environmental performance and guarantee the safety of people.
**Job Description** Job Purpose**:
The Urban Economist will be a Senior Principal who will be responsible for conducting comprehensive economic analyses, developing business cases, and assessing the feasibility of urban development projects. This role requires expertise in urban economics, financial modeling, and stakeholder collaboration to ensure the economic sustainability and success of urban projects. The Urban Economist will play a key role in influencing policy, investment decisions, and development strategies. The role is based in Riyadh and our scope will be establishing PMO services to help the client deliver strategic plans and procedures to cover their portfolio of works.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Strong understanding of urbanization and urban development and of the tools for urban and regional economic and spatial planning.
- Ability to conduct independent research on urban and regional economic topics, determine suitability, validity and accuracy of data provided by different sources.
- Experience collaborating as part of large multidisciplinary teams on planning projects in the capacity of an urban economist, with strong knowledge of the latest urban economics theories, concepts and practices.
- Expertise analyzing and interpreting data and identifying trends and patterns, with strong capability to use or lead teams to use advanced visualization tools and platforms for reporting and to provide insights and outcomes that can enable data-driven decision-making.
- Ability to work across spatial maps and models and financial and economic models for the purposes of scenario building, interpretation and analysis.

**Qualifications** Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree in economics urban economics / urban planning / development management / real estate Postgraduate degree preferrable
- 15 years of experience in urban economics, feasibility studies, or related areas.
- Expertise in economic modeling, business case development, and financial analysis.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement, interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, with ability to deliver workshops
- Proficiency in the latest relevant digital tools and platforms.
- Relevant professional certification(s) preferred.

**Additional Information**
- Attractive salary and bonus with annual revision.
- Cooperation with colleagues around the world in a leading global group.
- Strong team spirit in an entrepreneurial environment of a growing company.
- People values, social responsibility and sustainability.
- Global development and relocation opportunities for high performers.
- Opportunities for self-development and career advancement.