Senior Director- Economic and Strategic Research- Economics (Open to Remote)

Company Description

At Fannie Mae, futures are made. The inspiring work we do helps make a home a possibility for millions of homeowners and renters. Every day offers compelling opportunities to impact the future of the housing industry while being part of an inclusive team thriving in an energizing, flexible environment. Here, you will grow your career and help create access to fair, affordable housing finance.

Job Description

In this compelling leadership position, you will be accountable for the analysis of market, government, and business data in conjunction with monitoring and interpreting economic trends. In this role, you will be accountable for managing the production of forecasts of economic (and other) variables relevant to the Company, market participants, and policy makers. You will ensure the production of research to provide insights into borrower, lender, investor, and/or other behaviors, as well as oversee the examination of findings and recommendations of reports, research papers, and presentations to advise internal and external business partners, policy makers, or other audiences.

THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE

Responsibilities

The Economic and Strategic Research - Economics - Senior Director role will offer you the flexibility to make each day your own, while working alongside people who care so that you can deliver on the following responsibilities:

• Oversee research efforts and their application, using public and company data to inform and quantify the impact of proposed or implemented policy changes. Conduct research to understand prior market, social, or other developments relevant to internal or external stakeholders using statistical and other recognized methods.
• Ensure the application of research best practices to the development and ongoing improvement of forecasts, indices, and surveys, including the evaluation of Fannie Mae's products and policies. Develop plans to implement and operationalize statistical tools and models to provide analysis for downstream users (e.g. home price forecasts or indices, survey results, or other model implementations).
• Oversee the production of analyses to provide valuable information to internal or external decision makers for setting company policies, developing business products, and improving the analytic assets of the company.
• Review the current state of economic, market, and regulatory developments along with relevant academic and practitioner research.
• Translate findings for non-technical audiences, such as industry partners, business customers, or the media.
• Present to internal and external audiences on macroeconomic and housing-related topics, including updates related to the macro and housing forecast and outlook.
  
  

Qualifications

THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

Minimum Required Experiences

• 8 years of relevant work experience
• PhD or Doctorate in Economics, Finance, Business, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, or similar
  
  

Leadership Skills

• Leadership experience in managing economic research, forecasting, data analysis or related projects
• Skilled at managing workstreams and projects, including resources and people, to ensure successful and timely project completion
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to explain results to a broad audience, including expertise in creating and delivering economic presentations.
• Relationship Management including managing and engaging stakeholders, partners, customers, and vendors, and building relationship networks
• Experience identifying and selecting strategic options, and identifying resources to meet the defined objectives
• Working with people with different functional expertise and backgrounds respectfully and cooperatively to work toward a common goal
• Collective capabilities for leadership, including leading teams, creating and communicating a shared vision for the team members, providing feedback on economic analysis, and coaching and mentoring
• Influencing including negotiating, persuading others, providing constructive criticism and challenge, and resolving conflict
• Ability to direct and evaluate the more technical aspects of economic analysis and research, while also managing team work product and effort to focus on the broader context and key impacts of the analysis
  
  

Technical Skills

• Advanced knowledge of economics, statistics and data analysis
• Expertise in visualizing data, including experience with Excel, Tableau, R Shiny or similar to identify, summarize and explain observed data patterns
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to conduct and manage analysis to address complex economic or business problems
• Skilled in presenting information and/or ideas to an audience in a way that is engaging and easy to understand using graphical representation of information in the form of a charts, diagrams, pictures, and dashboards with programs and tools such as Excel, Tableau, R Shiny or similar
  
  

Desired Experience

• Experience in mortgage or housing market research and analysis
• Technical ability with statistical software packages including coding, debugging, modeling and economic analysis with relevant programming languages (Python, R, SAS, SQL, etc...)
• Experience with Cloud-based data analytics
• Experience in presenting economic and housing related analysis and forecasts to a wide variety of audiences
  
  

Additional Information

Economic & Strategic Research - Economics- Senior Director REF13178R

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The hiring range for this role is set forth on each of our job postings located on Fannie Mae's Career Site. Final salaries will generally vary within that range based on factors that include but are not limited to, skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and other relevant qualifications. This position is eligible to participate in a Fannie Mae incentive program (subject to the terms of the program). As part of our comprehensive benefits package, Fannie Mae offers a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle, and other benefits and perks that enhance an employee’s physical, mental, emotional, and financial well-being. See more here.