Hybrid Associate Director – Energy Markets

at Guidehouse

• Job title: Associate Director – Energy Markets
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $135,000 - $225,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, United States

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