Market Analyst

Job Description

The Market Analyst supports the Business Development, Implementation, and Client Delivery functions of Allegis Global Solutions primarily by advising management/executive levels of our clients on contingent pricing models, market-based pricing, and cost savings potential.  They additionally undertake various economic research to advise clients on the sourcing of labour based on trends in industries, occupations, or economies both globally, nationally, and locally.

Expectations

• Understand labour macro-economic data related to labour markets and provide thoughtfully written analysis and verbal presentation of this data.
• Understand labour pricing data, sources, and methodology and professionally present these to executive level client sponsorship and AGS Client Delivery teams.
• Produce written analysis in the form of blogs, white papers, infographics, or other web content.
• Take initiative to seek out and gain client, industry, and business knowledge pertinent to their role.
• Fulfil ad hoc requests of Senior Analysts, Managers/Directors of the Market Analytics team as well as client sponsorship and Client Delivery teams.
• Be an engaged member of the Market Analytics team, contributing to discussions, analysis and writing relating to all aspects of this role.

Key Responsibilities

• Advise client sponsorship and program operations leaders on pricing models, market-based pricing and cost savings initiatives through the implementation of rate cards with new clients and client expansions.
• Serve as the main point of contact on new client implementations and is expected to be able to use judgment to advise clients on the best way to set up pricing for the sourcing of contingent labor. The research analyst will present analysis and recommendations in a professional manner to executive levels of Fortune 1000 companies.
• Create Labour Market Reports to assess skillsets in a market in order for Client Delivery teams to make recommendations to hiring managers around sourcing strategy and suggested changes.
• Clean and manipulate data sets from a variety of internal and external databases for use by the Market Analytics team as well as the greater BI team at AGS.
• Handle a wide variety of ad hoc research projects as requested by client sponsorship, present research findings and advise on how the research findings should impact client sourcing decisions Ad hoc/by request economic and client research.

 

• B.S. or M.A. in Economics strongly preferred. Similar degrees such as Finance, Business Administration, and Psychology will be considered.
• 2 - 5 years of relevant experience, Recruitment/HR function, or staffing industry preferred.
• Must have advanced knowledge of MS Excel (proficiency with vlooklookupsot tables, complex formulas, dynamic charts, graphs, etc.)
• Proficiency with the reporting tools utilized by our programs and provided by our partners such as Economics or Labour Market data portals/sites.
• Be a critical thinker who can take data and interpret it into actionable information for clients.
• Demonstrate drive, initiative, and ownership in all aspects of their work.
• Be a self-starter and independent worker, capable of meeting expectations with minimal oversight.
• Be comfortable working with a remote team.
• Possess excellent organisational and communication skills (both written and verbal).
• Have strong problem-solving capabilities, and flexibility to handle multiple tasks concurrently.
• Have advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel (proficient with v-lookups, pivot tables, complex formulas etc.)
• Have experience with data visualisation tools i.e. Power Bi (preferred but not essential)

As a workplace, we focus on relationships – with each other, our clients and our candidates - in fact serving others is one of our core values. We support open communication and recognize that giving constructive criticism can be even harder than receiving it. We appreciate the fearless and the passionate, who force us to be better. Everything we do sits on a pillar of diversity - diverse perspectives, backgrounds and ideas drive innovation and make us successful.

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