Senior Consultant/manager, Economist

Arup’s purpose, shared values and collaborative approach has set us apart for over 75 years, guiding how we shape a better world.

Arup is seeking a motivated Senior Consultant/Manager, Economist for its Investor Advisory team in New Zealand, based in the Auckland office supporting the ANZ region. This high-impact role involves supporting economics advisory across major infrastructure projects in all sectors, focusing on client engagement, project delivery, and technical guidance.

**The Opportunity**
- Lead and manage economic advisory engagements, ensuring high-quality delivery and client satisfaction.
- Provide timely and quality technical advice to clients, addressing their requirements effectively and leveraging extensive experience. Build and maintain trust with clients through consistent, reliable support and strategic insights.
- Develop and compile content for successful proposals and tender documents. Support the wider team in business development activities and contribute to winning new work.
- Actively participate in internal and external meetings, providing valuable input and representing the firm’s interests. Lead the preparation of business cases or economics advisory mandates, support significant multi-disciplinary projects, manage discrete deliverables, and cultivate peer-level client relationships.
- Take primary responsibility for building and running economic models for major infrastructure projects across various sectors, including transport, water, energy, waste, maritime, and precincts. Undertake economic analysis to determine project’s EIRR or BCR and support urban planning specialists with macroeconomic analysis

At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective - in which we encourage individuality to thrive. Our strength comes from how we respect, share and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives and ideas.
You will have the opportunity do socially useful work that has meaning - to Arup, to your career, to our members and to the clients and communities we serve.

**Is this role right for you?**
- Recognized tertiary qualifications in economics, finance, commerce, or a similar area.
- Expertise in economic or financial modelling and analysis.
- Experience in preparing government strategic and final business case documents across multiple sectors.
- Familiarity with the infrastructure and real estate sectors and their socio-economic drivers.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral

**What we offer you**

At Arup, we care about each member’s success, so we can grow together.
Guided by our values, we provide an attractive total reward package that recognises the contribution of each of our members to our shared success. As well as competitive, fair, and equitable pay, we offer a career in which all of our members can belong, grow and thrive - through benefits that support health and wellbeing, a wide range of learning opportunities and many possibilities to have an impact through the work they do.
We are owned in trust on behalf of our members, giving us the freedom, with personal responsibility, to set our own direction and choose work that aligns with our purpose and adds to Arup’s legacy. Our members collaborate on ambitious projects to deliver remarkable outcomes for our clients and communities. Profit Share is a key part of our reward, enabling eligible members to share in the results of our collective efforts.
Explore the perks of a career with Arup New Zealand:

- Hybrid working policy and flexible working hours.
- Paid parental leave for the primary carer of 16 weeks or 32 weeks at half pay and as well as generous unpaid leave benefits.
- Paid parental leave for the support carer of 2 weeks plus the opportunity to access extra paid and unpaid leave if you later become the primary carer.
- Birthday leave
- Ability to purchase additional leave of up to 20 days for permanent employees.
- International mobility opportunities
- Insurances (life, travel & income protection)
- Interest free bicycle loans
- Free & confidential counselling sessions

**Different people, shared values**

**Our Application Process**
- Arup does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies._

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