Market Intelligence Lead

Key Responsibilities

• Elicit and document modeling requirements from Market Intelligence & Strategy team members across capacity expansion, production cost, and market design prototyping needs.
• Evaluate candidate commercial and open-source tools against documented requirements and develop a shortlist for each modeling need area.
• Participate in and support the vendor selection and procurement process, including a recommendation, where a suitable tool is not already in use.
• Guide customization and configuration of selected tools to ensure they are fit for purpose in modeling the Client market and power system.
• Provide hands-on training to team members on selected tools to build durable in-house capability.
• Develop written training materials in a format agreed with the Supervisor, Market Intelligence & Strategy.
• Develop process and procedure documentation for ongoing tool use, for adoption by the team.
• Serve as subject matter expert on selected tools, providing ongoing technical guidance to team members.
• Run modeling analyses directly to support team deliverables, as needed.
• Engage with other Client modeling teams to understand existing capabilities, tools, and best practices, and incorporate relevant lessons into tool selection and configuration.

Required Skills

• Demonstrated ability to elicit technical requirements and translate them into tool-evaluation criteria.
• Ability to evaluate and compare capacity expansion, production cost, and market design prototyping tools against defined requirements.
• Strong training and knowledge-transfer skills, including development of clear technical documentation.
• Working knowledge of power system and electricity market modeling concepts, sufficient to assess tool fit-for-purpose for the Client market and power system.
• Capability to run modeling analyses directly is a benefit, though not prescriptive to any single toolset.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Economics, Computer Science, or a related discipline, or equivalent knowledge in power system and market modeling gained through a combination of education and experience.

Experience

• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in power system or electricity market modeling, tool selection, or a related technical field.
• 10 or more years preferred.