Hybrid Associate Director – Energy Markets

Posted 4 months ago

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About the role

  • Associate Director in Energy Markets focusing on renewable integration and client engagement. Lead modeling team insights for utilities and large commercial companies.

Responsibilities

  • Originating, closing, leading large and complex client engagements.
  • Managing staff and assisting in related business development efforts.
  • Tracking and analyzing energy market trends.
  • Translating clients' inquiries and challenges into actionable scopes of work.
  • Compiling reports, presentations, and other documents to communicate solutions, strategies, and analysis to clients.
  • Supporting the day-to-day management of client relationships.
  • Developing and using analytical models, programming, and simulations to forecast market prices, conduct research and development, and create tools to improve productivity and accuracy.
  • Reviewing and approving model outputs via data collection, manipulation, and analyses, which may involve spreadsheet and database creation and management.
  • Be an expert in ISO/RTO markets across North America, at the crossroads of local energy pricing, capacity auctions, ancillary services and shifts in load composition and demand response initiatives.
  • Be intimately familiar with the economics, policies and players driving renewables, battery storage development, green fuels and new power generation technologies.
  • Supervise simulations of the future dispatch of the power transmission grid using an economic dispatch model.
  • Review the addition/retirement of diverse generating resources using a capacity expansion model across ISO/RTO markets.
  • Be an expert in how energy players procure power, integrate renewables, and maintain grid reliability.
  • Help develop our Reference Case while expanding our client base.
  • Mentor junior consultants in expanding their individual know-how and business acumen on energy markets, business development and client management skills.

Requirements

  • Must be a US Citizen or US Permanent Resident due to nature of client engagements.
  • Bachelor’s degree in a business, economics, energy finance, or engineering discipline AND seven (7) plus years of post-graduation work experience in a related field (e.g. consulting, strategy, project development);
  • Or Master's degree in a business, economics, energy finance, or engineering discipline AND five (5) plus years of post-graduation work experience in a related field (e.g. consulting, strategy, project development).
  • Post graduation work experience with economic dispatch models such as: Aurora, Origin, PLEXOS, BID3, or PSO.
  • Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Experienced with data analytics, data modeling and visualization.
  • Proactive and independent work style.
  • Ability to assume ownership of significant portions of tasks while collaborating with a close-knit team.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to travel.
  • Ability to work in a Guidehouse Office or Client Office location.
  • Currently reside in the contiguous United States.

Benefits

  • Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
  • Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
  • Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
  • Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Basic Life & Supplemental Life
  • Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
  • Student Loan PayDown
  • Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities
  • Skills Development & Certifications
  • Employee Referral Program
  • Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
  • Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program
  • Mobility Stipend

Job title

Associate Director – Energy Markets

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$135,000 - $225,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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