Managing Consultant-Energy Markets
About the role
The Energy Markets & Systems Integrated Modeling Team supports developers, operators, and sponsors in bringing in new grid-scale and community renewables, storage, and green fuels resources. They assist utilities and large commercial companies in their ESG, decarbonization, and renewable integration efforts. The team develops and maintains a suite of quantitative market models that clients rely on for capital investment decisions, business improvements, and grid reliability.
Responsibilities
- Originating, closing, and 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.
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 Five (5+) 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 Three (3+) 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.
- Able to assume ownership of significant portions of tasks while collaborating with a close-knit team.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Able to travel.
- Able to work in a Guidehouse Office or Client Office location.
- Currently reside in the contiguous United States.
Qualifications
- Preference will be given to candidates within reasonable driving distance of a core Guidehouse Office or Client Office location.
- Graduate degree (Masters, MBA, PhD) in business, policy, economics, energy finance, engineering.
- Experience in generation and storage asset management.
Skills
- Expertise in ISO/RTO markets across North America.
- Familiarity with the economics, policies, and players driving renewables, battery storage development, green fuels, and new power generation technologies.
- Supervision of simulations of the future dispatch of the power transmission grid using an economic dispatch model.
- Review of the addition/retirement of diverse generating resources using a capacity expansion model across ISO/RTO markets.
- Expertise in how energy players procure power, integrate renewables, and maintain grid reliability.
- Development of the Reference Case while expanding the client base.
- Mentoring junior consultants in expanding their individual know-how and business acumen on energy markets, business development, and client management skills.
Benefits
The annual salary range for this position is $130,000.00-$216,000.00. Compensation decisions depend on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, security clearances, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs.
Pay
The annual salary range for this position is $130,000.00-$216,000.00.
Schedule
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