Costing and Power Supply Specialist

About the role

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Costing and Power Supply Specialist based in the United States. This is an opportunity to play a key role in retail power costing and commercial decision-making across U.S. deregulated energy markets. You will help develop competitive costing strategies while identifying, modeling, and mitigating market and cost-related exposures. The role combines quantitative analysis, energy-market expertise, data management, and commercial insight in a highly collaborative environment. You will work closely with Pricing, Sales, Operations, Finance, Risk, Regulatory, and Compliance teams to improve pricing accuracy and business outcomes. A major focus will be developing and automating costing methodologies, analyzing ISO settlements, and supporting pricing and gross-margin models. You will also contribute to new product initiatives, market competitiveness analysis, customer discussions, and sales enablement. This role is ideal for a technically strong energy professional who enjoys solving complex problems and turning market data into actionable commercial insights.

Accountabilities

• Manage and continuously improve the retail costing process across assigned U.S. deregulated power markets, with a focus on competitiveness, business growth, and exposure management.
• Analyze and model cost components, market risks, premiums, and other factors that influence retail power pricing.
• Develop, automate, and maintain reporting for cost components, pricing strategies, and methodologies supporting pricing and gross-margin models.
• Track, optimize, and explain P&L performance associated with non-tradable cost components.
• Manage regulatory rate-change processes and monitor state and market rules that affect retail costing.
• Partner with regulatory and compliance teams to ensure costing approaches remain aligned with applicable requirements.
• Support the costing and commercial development of new retail energy products and initiatives.
• Act as a subject-matter expert for Pricing, Operations, Sales, and other functional teams on ISO-level component costing and settlement-related questions.
• Obtain appropriate quarterly validation and sign-off for costing methodologies and pricing assumptions.
• Build and maintain information resources, data libraries, and supporting data infrastructure.
• Serve as a key point of contact for Sales and other internal stakeholders on costing-related questions and commercial analysis.
• Track and analyze competitiveness feedback and translate market insights into actionable recommendations.
• Develop market collateral and supporting materials for Sales teams, channel partners, and customers.
• Participate in customer meetings, presentations, and seminars when requested.
• Expand knowledge across deregulated energy markets in North America and apply market insights to improve costing and commercial performance.
• Lead or contribute to process improvements, cross-functional initiatives, and other responsibilities as business needs evolve.

Requirements

• Mid-level professional experience in a substantially similar role involving retail power costing, energy pricing, power markets, or a related quantitative commercial function.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Statistics, Quantitative Finance, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Strong understanding of retail power pricing processes, including pricing model development and cost-component analysis.
• Knowledge of deregulated electricity market cost structures, including capacity, transmission, ancillary services, losses, and related market components.
• Prior experience working with ISO settlements data and interpreting complex market or settlement information.
• Strong analytical capabilities, with the ability to collect, query, organize, evaluate, and interpret complex datasets and draw logical conclusions.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel, VBA, and SQL, with the ability to automate analysis and reporting where appropriate.
• Strong commercial and business acumen, with an understanding of how costing decisions influence competitiveness, profitability, and growth.
• Ability to work independently, take ownership of projects, and lead process improvements with limited supervision.
• Highly organized, resourceful, self-motivated, and comfortable managing multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders at all organizational levels.
• Ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary teams, including Sales, Pricing, Operations, Finance, Risk, Regulatory, and Compliance.
• Strong interest in continuous learning and developing expertise across North American deregulated energy markets.
• Ability to influence stakeholders, communicate technical findings clearly, and translate quantitative analysis into practical commercial recommendations.

Benefits

• Full-time hybrid work model combining office and remote working.
• Location: Houston, Texas, United States.
• Opportunity to work in a technically sophisticated retail power and energy-market environment.
• Exposure to deregulated electricity markets and a broad range of commercial, operational, regulatory, and risk functions.
• Opportunity to contribute to pricing strategy, product development, process improvement, and commercial growth initiatives.
• Collaborative, multidisciplinary working environment with interaction across Sales, Operations, Finance, Risk, Pricing, Regulatory, and Compliance.
• Generous paid parental leave.
• Retirement benefits.
• Commitment to an inclusive and diverse workplace.
• Reasonable accommodations available for qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the recruitment and employment process.
• Travel: Negligible travel expected.
• Relocation assistance: Not available for this position.
• Employment may be subject to applicable local policies, which can include pre-employment screening, medical review, and background checks depending on the role.