Market Signals Intelligence Lead

Salary: £49,000 - 49,000 per year

Requirements:

• Multi-disciplinary, expert-level knowledge base combining housing and real estate markets, credit conditions, mortgage lending cycles, refinancing behaviour, macroeconomic indicators, and geopolitical drivers.
• Advanced capability in interpreting interdependent economic variables and system dynamics.
• Ability to distinguish leading vs lagging indicators and signal vs noise.
• Ability to assess causality limitations beyond simple correlation.
• Practical expertise in integrating heterogeneous data sources, including internal performance data and external datasets such as Macrobond.
• Ability to navigate structural constraints such as data quality, granularity, timing mismatches, and access limitations.
• Ability to operate across analytical domains and commercial judgement.
• Senior individual contributor experience with enterprise accountability and board-level influence.

Responsibilities:

• Define and continuously evolve a firm-wide signal taxonomy and prioritisation model.
• Establish a forward-looking 1–3 year signal architecture supporting forecasting and scenario planning.
• Own the Quarterly Market Signals Narrative, synthesising relevant inputs into a small set of high-priority, decision-relevant signals.
• Provide clear directional judgement and confidence levels.
• Explicitly identify gaps in evidence, weak or non-correlating signals, and their implications.
• Set the analytical agenda for BI and Data Science through signal prioritisation.
• Ensure alignment of outputs across BI, Data Science, and Research.
• Eliminate fragmented or conflicting interpretations at senior level.
• Define enterprise use of external economic datasets such as Macrobond.
• Integrate external indicators with internal performance data to enable causal and contextual insight.
• Establish firm-wide standards for signal definition, interpretation, and narrative consistency.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, informing market positioning, investment and resource allocation decisions, and responses to macroeconomic and geopolitical shifts.
• Determine which signals are material, how they should be interpreted, and how they should be communicated.
• Account for narrative integrity at senior leadership level.

Technologies:

• Network
• Business Intelligence

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We are Knight Frank, one of the worlds leading independent real estate consultancies, headquartered in London and operating across more than 50 markets, 600+ offices, and 20,000+ people in a global network. We work in partnership to enhance peoples lives and environments, with a strong focus on clients, integrity, care, and clear advice across all areas of property. We are committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace where people have autonomy, their voices are heard, and innovation is encouraged. This is a full-time role based at our UK Head Office on Baker Street, London. We offer a competitive salary and are conducting this as a direct search.

last updated 36 week of 2026