24 Economy jobs in the United Kingdom

Job title: Visitor Economy Research & Insights Manager
Location: Birmingham, West Midlands (Hybrid 3 days a week)
Contract: Permanent, Full-time
Start date: September 2025 - November 2025
Salary: Competitive + Benefits

The Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Visitor Economy Research & Insights Manager to lead on research, evaluation, and intelligence programmes within the visitor economy. This role will oversee data collection, analysis, and interpretation to inform strategic decision-making, influence policy, and drive targeted activity across tourism, business events, and major projects. Working closely with senior stakeholders, government bodies, and industry partners, the successful candidate will provide high-quality insights and evidence to support growth and development in the regional visitor economy.

Key Requirements

• Lead the design and delivery of a visitor economy research and evaluation programme.
• Analyse local, regional, national and international data to identify opportunities and challenges.
• Produce clear reports, policy briefs and presentations to internal and external audiences.
• Coordinate primary and secondary data collection across the region.
• Manage budgets, procurement processes, and commissioned research projects.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across government, academia, and industry.
• Ensure data compatibility, quality control and adherence to statistical standards.
• Support regional strategies and funding bids through robust evidence and insights.
• Represent the organisation in national forums and with destination marketing bodies.
• Oversee protocols and standards for consistent data collection and sharing.

Candidate Criteria

• Proven experience in research, evaluation or insight roles, ideally within tourism, events, or the wider visitor economy.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data sets.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presenting findings to senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, budgets and procurement processes.
• Track record of working with public sector bodies, academia and/or industry partners.
• Knowledge of UK government policy processes and consultations.
• Skilled in data modelling, interpretation and market intelligence reporting.
• Experience commissioning, managing, and quality-assuring external research.
• Ability to build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships.
• A collaborative, proactive and detail-oriented approach with strong problem-solving skills.

Please apply for more information

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Job title: Visitor Economy Research & Insights Manager
Location: Birmingham, West Midlands (Hybrid 3 days a week)
Contract: Permanent, Full-time
Start date: September 2025 - November 2025
Salary: Competitive + Benefits

The Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Visitor Economy Research & Insights Manager to lead on research, evaluation, and intelligence programmes within the visitor economy. This role will oversee data collection, analysis, and interpretation to inform strategic decision-making, influence policy, and drive targeted activity across tourism, business events, and major projects. Working closely with senior stakeholders, government bodies, and industry partners, the successful candidate will provide high-quality insights and evidence to support growth and development in the regional visitor economy.

Key Requirements

• Lead the design and delivery of a visitor economy research and evaluation programme.
• Analyse local, regional, national and international data to identify opportunities and challenges.
• Produce clear reports, policy briefs and presentations to internal and external audiences.
• Coordinate primary and secondary data collection across the region.
• Manage budgets, procurement processes, and commissioned research projects.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across government, academia, and industry.
• Ensure data compatibility, quality control and adherence to statistical standards.
• Support regional strategies and funding bids through robust evidence and insights.
• Represent the organisation in national forums and with destination marketing bodies.
• Oversee protocols and standards for consistent data collection and sharing.

Candidate Criteria

• Proven experience in research, evaluation or insight roles, ideally within tourism, events, or the wider visitor economy.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data sets.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presenting findings to senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, budgets and procurement processes.
• Track record of working with public sector bodies, academia and/or industry partners.
• Knowledge of UK government policy processes and consultations.
• Skilled in data modelling, interpretation and market intelligence reporting.
• Experience commissioning, managing, and quality-assuring external research.
• Ability to build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships.
• A collaborative, proactive and detail-oriented approach with strong problem-solving skills.

Please apply for more information

GleeMD

At Gleeson Recruitment Group, we embrace inclusivity and welcome applicants of all backgrounds, experiences, and abilities. We are proud to be a disability confident employer.

By applying you will be registered as a candidate with Gleeson Recruitment Limited. Our Privacy Policy is available on our website and explains how we will use your data.

• Provide administrative support using Microsoft Office tools.
li>Contribute to project reporting, including creating infographics and presentations.
• Administer grant funding for external projects, support claim approvals, manage databases, design reports, analyze data, and maintain audit records.
• Conduct general team administration tasks, such as setting up and supporting meetings, conference calls, briefings, and events with internal and external attendees, recording actions, and ensuring follow-up.
• Handle queries from internal and external teams, including project deliverers, finance, procurement, IT, evaluation, and audit.
• Maintain mailing lists and contribute content to newsletters and electronic communications.
• Conduct research to support work package development, including bid-writing and innovation.
• Perform any other duties commensurate with the role.

• Good standard of general education.
• Excellent IT skills, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

• Experience providing administrative support in a dynamic and complex environment.
• Experience developing documents and reports in various styles and formats.
• Experience with database support, including system administration, audit, and data analysis.
• Knowledge of procurement systems (e.g., Agresso).

• Excellent organizational skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills at all levels, with the ability to create reports and presentations to a high standard and strong attention to detail.
• Self-motivated and capable of planning and prioritizing own workload to meet deadlines.
• Flexible and agile, with the ability to respond quickly to competing demands.
• Able to work effectively as part of a team and build relationships with colleagues within the Combined Authority and partner organizations.
• Appreciation of the importance of discretion and confidentiality.

• Educated to a degree level or equivalent.
• Experience in administration within a complex local authority environment.

Hello, we’re Glowmade! We’re a small-ish, exciting company and the goal of our games is to unlock people's imagination and help them express themselves in wonderful, fun ways. Right now we’re busy building a new multiplayer cooperative game with an ambitious creative wrapper around it. We can’t say too much, but if you can imagine Jim Henson’s Labyrinth mashed up with Wrestlemania, then you’ll be on the right track!

We’ve got big hearts and big ideas, and this is an opportunity to play a key role in our growing team. We are looking for a LiveOps Manager to help us coordinate all aspects of our live service, including Events, Monetization, Balancing and any other seasonal content updates. This person will report into the Head of Product, and work closely with all teams : Design, Production, Art & Narrative.

We would like you to…

• Plan and organise the live calendar of events, bundles, and content updates
• Work with product & analytics to understand what content is working for players
• Assist with ongoing user research and community efforts to inform roadmap
• Implement configuration and balance changes needed for live updates

Requirements

The ideal candidate would…

• Have experience in a live service, F2P, or other game/product with regular updates
• Have experience in using Excel/Sheets/Dashboards to work with data and drive decisions
• Have experience in either event, pricing, economy, monetization or system design
• Be highly organised, proactive, and comfortable working with multiple stakeholders
• Be curious, with an emphasis on consistent learning and iteration to improve the game

Bonus Skills…

• Specific skills in data analysis (SQL/Python), user research
• Understanding of player psychology or economics
• Experience with AB testing, segmentation, personalisation, UGC or similar tech

Benefits

- Private Medical Cover

- Weekly PT Sessions

- Accrue extra holiday days per year of employment: 1 additional day of holiday on the 1 Jan following your first full year of work then 1 further day of holiday every 2 years

- 3x Wellbeing Days" per year: Emergency "can't face work today" days. It's like a duvet day except you don't have to stay in bed - it's for you to do whatever feeds your soul

- 3x Charity Days": Extra days to volunteer for social or community work

- Flexible working around our core hours of 10-4.30

- Matched pension contributions (We always give 5%)

- Generous parental leave (Please see handbook for full details)

- Bike to work scheme (Free bike, basically)

- £250 annual "personal development" budget, you can spend this on self improvement in

some way (doesn't even have to be work related)

- PASTRY WEDNESDAY and other delicious food based events

& MORE!

A few more bits.

Everyone at Glowmade has a voice, and it’s important to us that you feel empowered and are given the time and space to use it. We offer competitive wages and we are an actively equal opportunities employer. If all of the above sounds exciting and you think you can fill this pivotal role, please get in touch. No agencies please!

THIS IS AN UNPAID VOLUNTEERING ROLE.

Role Title: Principal/Senior/ Researcher (Biodiversity/Circular Eco)

Role Nature: Volunteer

Location: Home-based

The Blockchain & Climate Institute (BCI) is an international volunteer-led think tank supporting and advocating the application of blockchain technology in the global fight against climate change.

What will you be doing?

We are looking for a passionate VOLUNTEER who takes a methodological approach to their work, conducts independent research and analysis, engages with key stakeholders, and establishes strategic partnerships to progress the BCI’s core mission. Driving the end-to-end research process, conducting both independent research and support to members of working groups, publishing research, producing briefing material for speeches and presentations for clients and external conferences; and turning actions into impacts to shape climate policy on a global platform. We are developing a pipeline of projects focusing on biodiversity (forest and marine conservation), circular economy, climate adaptation, and renewable energy. Volunteers with more experience may be appointed as Principals or Senior Research Officers.

As with all other roles in BCI, this is a voluntary unpaid role.

Responsibilities

• Provide research support for members of working groups in areas such as renewable energy, carbon trading, forest monitoring, REDD+, natural resource management, blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, etc.
• To carry out primary and secondary research activities including both quantitative and qualitative, analytical examination and publishing high-quality research which draws appropriate conclusions;
• To generate opportunities for strategic partnerships;
• To attend conferences and events to promote the BCI, communicate research findings and insights via powerpoint decks and engage with key stakeholders.

Requirements

Skills & Abilities:

• Excellent oral communication skills, including the ability to develop effective working relationships, work flexibly across professional and operational boundaries, and communicate professionally with internal and external stakeholders at all levels;
• Excellent English writing skills and detail orientated;
• Excellent organisational skills and ability to balance competing demands under pressure;
• Strong presentation skills and ability to present ideas appropriately and persuasively; and
• Aptitude in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish (desirable).

General & Specialist Knowledge:

• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office;
• Strong depth of knowledge on topics central to the BCI such as climate change, climate finance, blockchain technology and artificial intelligence preferred;
• GIS skills like ArcGIS, ERDAS IMAGINE, etc.

Education & Training:

• A relevant degree or training in relevant discipline preferred; and
• Experience in producing research outputs and structured reports for different audiences.

Relevant Experience:

• Proven ability in organisation/business development (e.g. experience of working in a target-driven role);
• Experience in building constructive relationships with stakeholders;
• Experience of working independently and with teams to drive forward projects using own initiative; and
• Experience in designing, planning and facilitating independent research and the ability to meet tight deadlines.

Before you apply

Candidates must submit their CV, cover letter with some English research writing samples where possible. If shortlisted, you will be contacted by one of our recruiters to complete 2 x 45 minutes assessments. If successful, you will be asked to complete an in-tray exercise based on the role you have applied for prior to an interview with the Division Director. Please note that your details will be held in respect of GDPR compliance, for future volunteering opportunities with the BCI.

Benefits

What difference will you make?

Climate change and sustainability these are two hot topic groups that have been headlining media outlets, dominating conferences & events, and gaining increasing traction in research and pilot projects. BCI is here as an expert platform to help governments, inter-governmental and regional organisations as well as relevant corporates to negotiate the complex landscape of emerging technologies for environmental good. We cement our expertise by putting in the hard work in researching, identifying and analysing the applications of emerging technologies so that informed decisions can be made by the stakeholders in the climate change and action network.

One of the most important aspects of BCI’s mission is to support legislators and policymakers to create an enabling environment for the adoption of distributed ledger technologies. To that end, this opportunity will ensure BCI is financially sustainable before we make the developing-country communities sustainable.

Benefits you will get from volunteering with BCI are enormous and some include:

• You will hone or learn new skills including research, presentation, writing, professional etiquette,
• Your mind will be mentally stimulated, hence providing you a sense of purpose;
• You will advance and boost your professional career by helping you to make professional connections and giving you real-world experience at the intersection between climate and emerging technologies; and
• Help you develop long-lasting professional relationships with others. People who come together to make the world a better place forge close connection.

Selection Process

As a voluntary organization, we are pleased to open the door for candidates who may not have the prior experience they need to start, progress, or switch their careers. To recruit the most suitable, talented, or potential new members out of the volume of applications received, it is the BCI’s policy to also consider inexperienced candidates to fill our voluntary unpaid roles as long as they can demonstrate the skills required in the written assessment. In the selection process, most candidates will be invited to complete the following assessment.

Section A: Verbal and Numerical Reasoning (20 multiple-choice questions)

Section B: Situation Judgement Test (20 multiple-choice questions)

Section C: In-Tray Exercise (An open-ended assessment relevant to the duties of the role)

Candidates who pass all three sections will be invited to attend a phone screening, first interview, and final interview online.

• Conduct comprehensive research and analysis of global financial markets, economies, and specific industries.
• Develop and maintain sophisticated financial models to forecast market movements and evaluate investment performance.
• Analyze company financial statements, business models, and management quality for investment recommendations.
• Prepare detailed investment reports, presentations, and recommendations for senior management and investment committees.
• Monitor portfolio performance, identify risks, and propose adjustments to optimize returns.
• Stay abreast of regulatory changes, market developments, and macroeconomic factors influencing investment strategies.
• Collaborate with portfolio managers and traders to implement investment decisions effectively.
• Utilize data analysis tools and software (e.g., Bloomberg, FactSet) to gather and interpret financial data.
• Contribute to the development and refinement of quantitative investment strategies.
• Mentor junior analysts and share knowledge within the investment team.

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
• Master's degree or MBA is a plus.
• Progress towards or completion of CFA designation is highly preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in investment analysis, equity research, or portfolio management.
• Advanced proficiency in financial modeling, valuation techniques, and statistical analysis.
• Strong understanding of financial markets, asset classes, and investment instruments.
• Expertise in using financial data platforms such as Bloomberg Terminal, FactSet, or Refinitiv Eikon.
• Excellent analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex information clearly.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative team environment.

• Develop, test, and implement quantitative trading models and strategies.
• Design and validate mathematical models for pricing derivatives and managing risk.
• Conduct in-depth statistical analysis and backtesting of financial data.
• Program trading algorithms and optimize execution strategies.
• Collaborate with traders and portfolio managers to identify trading opportunities.
• Analyze market data for insights into price movements and trends.
• Ensure the robustness and accuracy of quantitative models.
• Stay updated on the latest advancements in financial modeling and machine learning.
• Contribute to the firm's quantitative research and development efforts.

• Master's or Ph.D. in a quantitative field (e.g., Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science, Financial Engineering).
• 5+ years of experience as a Quantitative Analyst or in a similar quant role within financial services.
• Expertise in Python, C++, R, or other relevant programming languages.
• Strong knowledge of financial markets, derivatives pricing, and risk management.
• Proficiency in statistical modeling, machine learning, and time-series analysis.
• Experience with large datasets and database management.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.