Corporate Economist in Seattle

Job Description

Description:

You are an experienced applied economist with a strong desire to join a dynamic, high-performing team at the world’s premier timber, land, and forest products company. You are smart, authentic, adaptable, accountable, and you listen. You act with urgency and bring energy to everything you do. You can master complex topics, but you can also keep it simple and concisely articulate what really matters.

Are you ready to join us?

The Corporate Economist is responsible for identifying and interpreting economic, market and industry developments that affect Weyerhaeuser’s operating performance and strategic positioning. Your forecasts, analysis and insights will enhance strategic and financial decision making across the enterprise and help drive maximum value for shareholders. This is a pivotal role on a small and nimble team and requires close collaboration with Weyerhaeuser’s CEO, CFO, business controllers, and operating leaders.

This role reports to the Vice President of Investor Relations.

• Lead fundamental industry analysis to support financial and strategic planning processes
• Develop and maintain near-term and long-term supply, demand and pricing outlooks across the company’s key markets
• Prepare and communicate timely industry and outlook updates across multiple levels of the organization
• Facilitate enterprise-wide alignment on key macroeconomic and commodity price planning assumptions
• Identify, analyze and communicate market and industry developments that affect business operations
• Leverage internal and external expertise to develop unique, proprietary insights
• Regularly advise senior management and business leaders regarding the effect of current and forecasted macroeconomic and market conditions
• Collaborate to develop key messages for external stakeholders, including members of the investment community
• Be deeply embedded across business segments and groups to help drive the analysis of markets and key strategic initiatives
• Lead the development and implementation of proprietary economic models and forecasting tools to enhance business strategy and operational efficiency
• Understand and respond to policy and regulatory changes and their economic and financial implications for the company including developing economic models to assess outcomes
• Manage and optimize the company’s economic data library and resources, including:
• Subscriptions to third-party providers of macroeconomic and industry data
• Enterprise-wide information delivery of proprietary and third-party information, including through use of SharePoint and PowerBI

Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Forestry, Economics or related discipline required
• PhD in Forestry, Economics or related discipline

• 10+ years of industry experience in analyzing, modeling and forecasting forest products and housing markets, and communicating with executive leaders

• In-depth experience in developing and maintaining analytic and forecasting models for the timber and wood products industries
• Deep understanding of global economic trends, regulatory changes, and their implications for global wood and timberland markets
• Thorough understanding of the U.S. housing market and macroeconomic fundamentals

• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
• Communicates complex topics clearly and concisely
• Able to rapidly build relationships with operational and finance leaders and senior executives
• Enjoys collaborating across teams and business segments to drive value
• Proven track record of advising senior management and stakeholders on economic implications of business strategies and external economic developments
• Experience in leading economic research teams and producing comprehensive reports and analysis
• Team player and individual contributor
• Energetic, curious and resourceful
• Proactively looks for ways to contribute without being asked
• Flexible, able to effectively drive and manage change
• Comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Able to produce high quality work for senior leaders on tight deadlines
• Takes pride in getting the details right
• High proficiency with Excel,…