Global Head of Large Load and Grid Transformation Research

About the role

The Global Head of Large Load and Grid Transformation Research is responsible for setting our research agenda for data centers, electrification, and other emerging sources of power demand. This role requires a deep understanding of the data center industry trends, challenges, and opportunities, along with a strong network of industry contacts. The ideal candidate will have a mix of experiences in research or consulting, as well as hands-on experience working at a data center company, utility, or another entity close to large load project development and interconnection.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the large load research agenda, encompassing the financial, technological, supply chain, and commercial dimensions of sectors ranging from data centers to EV charging, to BTM generation and microgrids.
• Anticipate and identify emerging themes that shape energy transformation, while ensuring our datasets and written research meet the highest quality standards, drive commercial success, and deliver clear, actionable answers to our customers' most pressing questions.
• Develop thought-provoking research that challenges conventional wisdom and generates new insights for industry participants, while interconnecting relevant research and data within other parts of the company.
• Lead modeling efforts around these topics, ranging from cost and revenue modeling to bankable long-term load forecasts, ensuring methodology standardization across regional teams.
• Drive AI adoption across research teams to continuously improve accuracy, efficiency, and overall research quality and ensure that WoodMac research always stays ahead of the curve.
• Take commercial ownership of large load intelligence research within existing and new offerings, ensuring our research aligns with customer needs, maintaining and building new sources of competitive advantage, and identifying and pursuing growth opportunities.
• Collaborate closely with other research and product owners, ensuring our research aligns with customer needs, maintaining and building new sources of competitive advantage, and identifying and pursuing growth opportunities.
• Serve as the main point of contact for our large load research, helping to drive, administer and communicate changes and initiatives to sales, marketing, product, and leadership teams.
• Collaborate with leadership on product strategy, resourcing, marketing priorities, and support analysis for commercial performance.
• Establish an industry presence as an influential speaker and thinker and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders in the data center industry.
• Identify the datasets and sources of data necessary to support our underlying analysis and ensure we have proper quality control in developing those datasets.
• Support consulting engagements related to large load sectors, as needed.

Qualifications

• 10 plus years of experience in the power industry, with at least three focused on data centers.
• Deep understanding of data center industry trends, challenges, and opportunities and a strong network of industry contacts.
• Experience successfully executing commercial strategies across teams such as marketing, sales, product, or others.
• Strong problem-solving skills and AI-forward thinking.
• A passion to make a difference in the way we power our planet.
• An excellent writer and public speaker.
• Strong analytical and numerical skills.
• An entrepreneurial mind set.
• Effective at working across a highly matrixed organization.