Head of Apac Economics, Global Intelligence

S&P Global Market Intelligence

**The Role**: Head of APAC Economics, Global Intelligence & Analytics (formerly Economics & Country Risk)

**The Team**:
**The Impact**:
You will lead a group of economists and advance cross-capability collaboration. You will partner within Insights & Analysis, across GIA verticals (which include economics, country risk, comparative industries, maritime, trade and supply chain) as well as cultivate strategic, internal relationships to ensure that we deliver timely actionable intelligence and unique insights to our clients and across S&P Global.

**What’s in it for you**:
Do you want to lead on deepening and broadening our regional expertise? Join us and you will have the chance to further expand your regional expertise and leadership skills, as well as oversee a range of analytical and management responsibilities as part of a fast-growing division.

**Responsibilities**:
Work with a team of economists to model and forecast macroeconomic conditions for Asia-Pacific economies, provide regular forward-looking insights and forecast review on country and regional levels, and coordinate impactful research on topics of interest to clients
Work with regional country-risk and overall APAC leads to define the regional research agenda, stay ahead of emergent analytical trends, and develop a unified strategic regional outlook
Lead on regional analytical stress-testing and drive cross-capability engagement with our proprietary datasets to generate robust and nuanced regional economic forecasts, to strengthen our products and to help develop new integrated commercial offerings
Support commercial expansion through external speaking engagements, customer and pre-sales briefings, internal and external client inquiries
Partner across GIA verticals to develop tools and supportive infrastructure which optimize workflows, moving our expert capacity further up the value chain
Cultivate a high-impact team of regional experts, through continuous learning, provision of effective feedback and coaching
Maintain S&P Global’s high stands of quality and style, and embed a regional team culture espousing GIA values of inclusion, agility, accountability, and collaboration
Understand the broader business objectives and proactively bolster GIA business development across products and advisory by taking initiative with brand building, lead generation and seeding innovation in our offerings among other ongoing support to sales and commercial teams
Partner with our strategic engagement group to build bridges with key analytical teams within Research, Advisory and Specialty Solutions unit and beyond, such as ESG and Ratings, promoting the regional group and GIA as connective tissue for cross-divisional collaboration

**What We’re Looking For**:
5+ years of leadership, people and change management experience
8+ years of related analysis experience including proven track record of thought leadership; solid quantitative skills and familiarity with EViews desired
A master or doctorate degree in economics or a closely related field with rigorous economics coursework desired
Deep understanding of the region’s economic, political and business environment
Desire to grow your knowledge of the GIA capabilities and to drive innovation
Passion for identifying, unpacking and addressing complex analytical problems
Ability to translate strategies into specific goals, action plans and deliverables
Ability to recommend and embed insights into clients’ workflow and strategic decision-making
Highly effective organizational and prioritization skills, especially in a fast-paced environment
Ability to manage multiple projects to deadline and with variable demands from clients and internal stakeholders in a collaborative manner
Strong interpersonal and communication skills to connect and influence at all levels internally within an organization as well as externally at a senior level
Strong self-awareness and cultural intelligence
Excellent and concise verbal and written English skills
Local language proficiency desired
Experience working or living in-region desired

**S&P Global Grade ( relevant for internal applicants only )**: 12

**The Location**: APAC

**About Company Statement**:
S&P Global delivers essential intelligence that powers decision making. We provide the world’s leading organizations with the right data, connected technologies and expertise they need to move ahead. As part of our team, you’ll help solve complex challenges that equip businesses, governments and individuals with the knowledge to adapt to a changing economic landscape.

S&P Global Market Intelligence partners with customers to broaden their perspective and operate with confidence by bringing them leading data sources and technologies that embed insight in their daily work.

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