Associate Economist - Manchester or Leeds

Savills Consultancy B.V. · Leeds, United Kingdom

Full-time

Location: Leeds, United Kingdom
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 15 days ago

About the job

Role Overview

Join Savills market-leading Economics team and play a key role in delivering high-profile consultancy projects that shape places, communities, and investment decisions across the UK. As an Associate Economist, you will lead and manage a diverse portfolio of projects spanning economic impact assessments, public funding bids, strategic research, property market analysis, and business case development.

Working closely with senior leaders and multidisciplinary teams across Savills, you will apply your analytical expertise to deliver robust economic insights and innovative solutions for both public and private sector clients. The role offers the opportunity to contribute to nationally significant projects while helping to grow the Economics team's presence across the North of England.

Alongside project delivery, you will support business development activities, manage client relationships, mentor junior colleagues, and contribute to winning new work. This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious economist with strong analytical, research, and project management skills who is passionate about property, planning, and economic development and is looking to further their career within one of the UK's leading property consultancies.

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What we offer you

Career and Professional Development
25-30 Days Annual Leave, depending on grade
Life Assurance
Private Medical Scheme
Virtual GP
Global Mobility Scheme
Rewards Platform
Company Pension Scheme
Enhanced Incremental Annual Leave

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About the team

The Economic Services team provides tailored advice supported by robust analytical insights, enabling clients to make informed investment decisions and gain a clear understanding of a project's economic, social and developmental impacts and benefits.

The team advises property developers, institutions, enterprises, landowners, investors, public sector organisations and occupiers. Its expertise spans social and economic impact assessments, market analysis, research, feasibility studies and business case development.

Recruitment agencies

Savills only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place and that agency has been previously contacted and directed by a member of our recruitment team. We do not pay agency fees when speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to Savills or any of our employees other than via our careers website and through our recruitment process. If this is not adhered to, agency fees will not be paid.

Submission of any unsolicited CVs or proposals to Savills will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of this approach.

Business area

Planning & Development Consultancy

Role

Development sales

Locations

Leeds, Manchester - Booth Street

Contract Type

Permanent

Remote Status

This role offers some working from home

Salary

Competitive

Contact

Sarah Quinn

Talent Acquisition Business Partner - Commercial and Development Services

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Our offer

• Holiday

We understand the importance of a work life balance and offer you a generous holiday entitlement, which increases throughout your career as you progress through our job levels or reach service milestones.

• Health

Your wellbeing and that of your family is as important to us as it is to you. We offer Virtual Gp, Digital Health, Private Medical Scheme and mental health support amongst other benefits.

• Lifestyle

We promote a healthy work life balance, supported by our approach to flexible working and our wide variety of health, wellbeing and social programmes.

• Our Offer

Read more about our benefits and culture in our offer overview below

Values

No matter the role you’re in, we all share one purpose: to help people thrive through places and spaces. This is built into our DNA, shaping the way we behave to deliver the best results. We define it by four key values:

We listen: Tell us your goals and aspirations and we’ll provide the support you need to achieve them. We appreciate the individual value of every team member and create an environment where you can reach your full potential.

We empower: Here, there’s no limit to what you can achieve. We give you opportunities to have a real, positive impact in the community through the work you do, backed by access to our market-leading research and insights.

We challenge: The best results happen when we question the status quo. We create an environment where you can safely challenge our thinking, bringing fresh ideas to the table to innovate as a team.

We collaborate: When you join Savills, you become part of a 40,000-strong network of driven individuals, all sharing their knowledge and experience to push the real estate industry forward.

At the heart of it all, we deliver best-in-class insights and advice to help people make better property decisions. We're looking for colleagues who will help us on this mission. When you join Savills, our ask for you is simple – to be extraordinary, together.

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About Savills

Over 42,000 people work for us in more than 70 countries all over the world. This breadth of global coverage, combined with specialist services and market insight, means we'll always have an expert who is local to you.

Founded in

1855

Co-workers

42,000 worldwide, 9600 in the UK

Turnover

£2.15 Bn

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