Head of Power - North America (Houston)

Overview:

At Energy Aspects, our talented people and teams are the foundation of our success.

We are currently seeking a new Head of Power to lead our team in North America.

Joining Energy Aspects means being at the forefront of our service, where your expertise and insights are prominently featured. You'll have the autonomy to shape and refine our products and research, enjoying organizational independence to drive innovation.

With a highly engaged customer base, you'll have the opportunity to interact with top market participants, enhancing your personal reputation as one of the industry's leading experts. As part of our rapidly growing organization, you'll collaborate with sales, account management, data engineering, and operational support teams to make a significant impact in the dynamic energy market. Our high-performance collaborative culture rewards initiative and drive, offering excellent remuneration, long terms incentives and exciting work.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Reporting to our Head of Natural Gas and Carbon Research, your day-to-day role will include:

• Direct research team covering key US ISO markets (PJM, ERCOT, NYISO, ISONE, CAISO, MISO and SPP) to forecast power market supply and demand fundamentals and market prices.
• Analyse and research key market topics and policy drivers to draw forward looking, market focused conclusions.
• Deliver service products in a timely manner (monthly Outlook, regular research alerts and insights, price forecasts)
• Interact with clients on a formal and informal basis to present research, garner feedback, and improve the service product.
• Design, develop and implement new data and research to continuously improve the product for clients.
• Maintain research team’s commercial focus to drive revenue growth.
• Work cross-functionally to share knowledge and insights to support natural gas, emissions, and energy transition research teams.

About You:

• The Successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following:
• Deep understanding of US power markets and the fundamental and policy drivers that will impact their evolution.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.
• Experience of building and maintaining fundamental power models and forecasting power prices
• Ability to prioritise conflicting demands while meeting key deliverables.
• Ability to coach and guide team members to produce better analysis.
• Willingness to ‘take a view’ based on the research conducted.
• Willingness to do research (“get your hands dirty”) and create content for publication.

About Us:

Founded in 2012, we are an independent research consultancy that has enjoyed phenomenal growth since our inception, and we have very ambitious plans to continue our upwards growth trajectory. We are passionately committed to providing indispensable and industry-leading short, medium and long-term analysis, and forecasts of the energy markets, that help our clients trade, invest, finance and plan.

Energy Aspects prides itself in the quality of its work and draws on a wide range of competencies to derive its views. The company is staffed with experts in upstream production, trading and econometric forecasting. It has always maintained a key focus on the geopolitics of the energy industry and the impacts they can have in shaping global markets.

The company has in recent years acquired several firms to enhance its position in energy market consultancy including Medley Global Advisors (2020), OilX (2022) and INAS (2023) bringing additional expertise in macro trends, oil market data and paper positioning into the group. The company is also growing its offering to clients on energy transition providing the tradeable insights on long-term trends.

Life at Energy Aspects:

With accreditation from Best Companies, we understand the importance of workplace engagement and holding sincere appreciation for our team. Our environment is characterised by its fast-paced, driven, collaborative, and dynamic ethos. Recognising and rewarding contributions that have played a part in our remarkable journey of growth.

We build our organisation with community in mind. All our offices are located in landmark buildings with easy access to gyms, shopping, restaurants and public transportation. With a wide range of social clubs, from running to yoga to football to foodies, we build a collegiate, social and dynamic culture that allows people to be at their best, both on the job and off.

Our compensation packages include a yearly bonus, a company share options scheme, private health insurance, life assurance, income protection, a generous 401k matching contributions pension, subsidis