Team Lead Commercial Analysis Americas South

RWE Supply & Trading Americas, LLC
To start as soon as possible, full time / part time, permanent

 

About the role

As Team Lead of Commercial Analysis - Americas South, you are responsible for delivering all necessary revenue analysis to support major investment and commercial decisions across wind, solar PV, battery storage, and flexible generation technologies, directly contributing to RWE Clean Energy’s growth targets. This role offers an excellent opportunity to lead a team of highly skilled experts in power markets and complex modeling with diverse backgrounds such as engineering, consulting, academia, and IPPs. It also provides the chance to collaborate with international teams across the broader RWE organization, offering valuable insights into the rapidly evolving global energy landscape and underscoring the impact and strategic importance of your role.

 

• Drive Impactful Decisions: Influence major investment, offtake, auction, and M&A decisions within RWE U.S., with a focus on ERCOT, SPP, MISO, and SERC. Your goal is to maximize commercial value for individual projects and the broader portfolio, guiding the business toward commercially optimized and viable outcomes.
• Shape Market Beliefs: Develop and refine key market beliefs related to ERCOT, SPP, MISO, and SERC, including trends in energy transition, renewable and battery deployment, flexible generation, demand response, tax credits, regulatory constraints, and state and federal emissions targets.
• Lead Market and Asset Valuation: Conduct and oversee analyses of market fundamentals, risks, and valuations for renewable and flexible generation assets using both internal and external models. Translate these insights into commercial strategies for the RWE Clean Energy portfolio or specific assets.
• Optimize Offtake and Auction Strategy: Lead the development of profit-maximizing offtake and auction strategies, aligning with RWE’s commercial frameworks and tailored for various RFPs and market auctions.
• Deliver Market Insights: Provide robust short- and long-term market analyses to assess the impact of energy market dynamics—such as commodity price movements or regulatory changes—on investment decisions, and recommend appropriate commercial responses.
• Collaborate Across Functions: Work closely with internal stakeholders including Strategy, Regulation, Valuation, Development, Trading, Risk Controlling, and Engineering, as well as with external consultants. Take ownership in steering these engagements to ensure commercially sound outcomes

 

Job requirements and experiences

• Graduate degrees (Masters or PhD) in an quantitative subject, such as Engineering, (Energy-) Economics, Sciences, Statistics, or Mathematics
• At least 7 years experience in commercialization of on-/offshore wind, solar PV, battery, and/or hydrogen projects, especially for ERCOT, SPP, MISO, and SERC market
• Detailed understanding on U.S. power & commodity market principles, fundamental drivers and risks of energy revenues with respect to Renewable / Battery / Flex Generation development perspectives
• Experience in fundamental modeling of power markets, renewable / battery project valuations, and / or programming skills (e.g. Python, R, VBA)
• High affinity for quantitative and complex modeling, and ability to draw the key insight from complex concepts and make relevant commercial decisions

 

Your Leadership Skills

• Team Leadership: Ability to lead, inspire, manage and delegate effectively
• People Development: Ability to develop your team and your team members to their full potential
• Working Together: Ability to collaborate globally in cross functional teams
• Open mindset: Self-reflective personality, able to learn and act on feedback
• Integration Management: Ability to lead teams through change processes
• Performance Orientation: Self-motivated to drive the business, increase performance and deliver results
• Strategic thinking: Push the boundaries to grow the business
• Continuous Improvement: Constantly optimizing the business
• Communication skills: Ability to effectively communicate internally & externally
• Hands-on mentality: Actively involving him-/herself, pragmatic and fact focused attitude

 

What we value most is passion, willingness to learn and a determined and resilient work ethic. So, even if you think you do not yet display all of the skills above we would still like to hear from you.

Further we welcome applications from individuals who may not be able to commit to full-time roles. At RWEST, finding the right person for the job is our top priority, and we are willing to explore flexible arra