Senior Consultant - Natural Gas Planning & Markets

Responsibilities

• Support the development and lead/manage natural gas supply projects for power generation facilities from initiation to completion, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and match the scope and quality required to meet the clients' needs.
• Support GDS's projects that include in its scope natural gas market planning and procurement activities.
• Assist in the gas planning, supply, and delivery aspects of clients' natural gas-fired generation projects.
• Prepare clients' natural gas planning projects, including price forecasts, assessments of market fundamentals, analyzing changing landscape of both national and regional natural gas markets, and provide insight on changing regulations impacting clients' critical planning functions.
• Evaluate various natural gas supply resources on an economic and risk basis.
• Provide insights to clients as requested related to specific aspects of the natural gas supply chain that may be creating challenges in procurement or administration of natural gas planning and contracting.
• Aid clients in contracting across the entire natural gas supply chain from supply contracting through the required transport and related services contracting.
• Aid clients in evaluating and participating in pipeline expansion projects from initial discussions, through FEED studies, precedent agreements, and eventual service agreements and tariff implementation.
• Aid clients in procurement and implementation of energy management agreements to administer clients' natural gas contracts.
• Aid clients in developing, issuing, and administering natural gas related Request for Proposals (RFPs).
• Aid clients in developing and implementing natural gas risk management policies and procedures.
• Provide natural gas risk policies and procedural audit services as requested.
• Leverage experience to grow GDS's current natural gas consulting services to the LDC, industrial, and other market segments.
• Contribute to consulting projects as required and as driven by business needs and seeking out peer review of material to support delivery of quality client-specific projects.
• Continuously grow natural gas subject matter expertise by actively contributing to the aforementioned activities and pursuing activities/work in various disciplines and staying abreast of current/hot topics to broaden and build upon subject matter knowledge.
• Communicate with clients by phone, Teams/Zoom, and prepare and make presentations to clients as part of team effort.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required with a preference for engineering, statistics, economics, business, or other energy industry-related field.
• Master's degree preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years' directly related work experience in the natural gas markets with emphasis on term markets including structured deals.
• Experience in evaluating and understanding contracting challenges, pricing uncertainty, and regulatory challenges.
• Experience with NAESB contracts, NYMEX, and basis pricing.
• Experience with both intrastate and interstate pipelines a plus.
• Developing and maintaining rapport with clients.
• The ability to work independently with limited supervision.
• Work effectively with internal teams.
• Solid problem-solving, judgment and decision-making skills.
• Detail-oriented and strong organizational skills.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficiency with MS Office applications required (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint).

Qualifications

• Must have the ability to work independently with limited supervision.
• Work effectively with internal teams.
• Solid problem-solving, judgment and decision-making skills.
• Detail-oriented and strong organizational skills.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficiency with MS Office applications required (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint).

Skills

• Experience working with counterparties, managing projects, including developing project proposals, project plans, and directing project teams.
• Experience in evaluating and understanding contracting challenges, pricing uncertainty, and regulatory challenges.
• Experience with NAESB contracts, NYMEX, and basis pricing.
• Experience with both intrastate and interstate pipelines a plus.
• Experience with common industry modeling to perform detailed analytics.
• Ability to leverage experience to grow GDS's current natural gas consulting services to the LDC, industrial, and other market segments.
• Ability to communicate with clients by phone, Teams/Zoom, and prepare and make presentations to clients as part of team effort.