Senior Manager Economic Statistics

About This Role

About Presight

Presight, an ADX-listed public company limited by shares whose majority shareholder is Abu Dhabi company G42, is the region’s leading big data analytics company powered by Artificial Intelligence (“AI”). Presight combines big data, analytics, and AI expertise to deliver insight-driven decision-making that supports policy, economic resilience, and sustainable development.

Position Overview

The Senior Manager – Economic Statistics will support a national-level official statistics program focused on the development, validation, and dissemination of high-quality statistical indicators. The role will initially focus on economic statistics, with planned expansion into population, social, and environmental domains in line with national priorities and international statistical standards.

This role combines deep statistical rigor with stakeholder engagement and platform enablement, ensuring indicators are methodologically sound, auditable, and fit for official publication.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the definition, calculation, validation, and maintenance of core economic indicators including national accounts, price indices, trade statistics, and labour market indicators
• Ensure methodologies align with international standards and are suitable for official dissemination
• Document methodologies, data sources, assumptions, and revision policies to ensure transparency and auditability
• Support extension of statistical frameworks to population, social, and environmental indicators, including SDG-aligned metrics
• Ensure alignment with international statistical standards including GSBPM, GSIM, SDMX, and DDI
• Define and enforce data quality, validation, and governance frameworks across the statistical lifecycle
• Support traceability, version control, revision management, and audit readiness
• Translate statistical logic into platform-ready data models, validation rules, and analytical workflows
• Validate dashboards and analytical outputs to ensure consistency with approved methodologies
• Engage government stakeholders and data providers through workshops, technical sessions, and governance forums
• Support training, onboarding, and institutional capacity building
• Prepare methodology notes, indicator briefs, and decision-ready summaries for senior officials
• Comply with QHSE (Quality Health Safety and Environment), Business Continuity, Information Security, Privacy, Risk, Compliance Management and Governance of Organizations policies, procedures, plans, and related risk assessments

Requirements

Qualifications & Experience

• 8–12+ years of experience in official statistics, national statistical offices, international organizations, or economic/statistical consulting
• Strong grounding in economic statistics with exposure to population, social, or environmental statistics
• Proven experience working with international statistical standards and quality assurance frameworks
• Experience supporting national or government-led statistical programs
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage technical and policy stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with national statistical authorities or international statistical organizations
• Exposure to SDG reporting, sustainability statistics, or environmental-economic accounting
• Academic background in statistics, economics, econometrics, or a related field

What we look for

Performance-driven, inquisitive individuals with agility to adapt to ambiguity, eager to build meaningful collaborations and deliver customer-centric solutions.

What working at Presight offers

Culture: An open, diverse, and inclusive environment with a global vision and focus on innovation

Career: Accelerate your career through high-impact projects and access to continuous growth and learning opportunities

Rewards: Competitive remuneration with healthcare, education support, and leave benefits