Senior Research Analyst – Energy Storage Technologies and Operations

Company Description

Wood Mackenzie are the global research, analytics, and consultancy business powering the natural resources industry. For 50 years, we have been providing the quality data, analytics, and insights our customers rely on to inspire their decision making.

Our dedicated oil, gas & LNG, power & renewables, chemicals, metals & mining sector teams are located around the world and deliver a variety of projects based on our assessment and valuation of thousands of individual assets, companies, and economic indicators such as market supply, demand, and price trends.

We have over 1,900 employees in 30 locations, serving customers in nearly 80 countries. Together, we inspire and innovate the markets we serve – providing invaluable intelligence to help our customers overcome the toughest challenges, and make strategic decisions that will, ultimately, accelerate the world’s transition to a more sustainable future.

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Job Description

Team Profile

This role will serve as part of Wood Mackenzie’s Power & Renewables Practice, with a focus on front-of-the-meter energy storage. This is an excellent opportunity to join a growing team and make a major contribution to the energy transition at a global scale. Combining proprietary data with market simulation tools and models we help our clients understand market trends in energy storage technology, supply chain, costs and prices. Wood Mackenzie directly serves clients who are responsible for the success of their firms’ technology roadmap, competitive positioning, product marketing, and go-to market strategies.

Role Purpose

The Analyst corresponds with, presents to, and advises vendors, developers and utility professionals on Wood Mackenzie analyses regarding the financial and operational impacts of energy storage systems on utilities, independent power producers, and renewables developers. The Analyst will focus on energy storage technologies and operations, including vendor and technology competitive assessment,  system cost benchmarking, and operational profiles including costs and revenues for markets in the US, Europe, and Asia Pacific. A successful candidate will collaborate with colleagues both across the storage team as well as other technology and commodity disciplines to generate holistic, actionable research for clients.

Analysts conduct original quantitative and qualitative market research and deliver analysis through written reports, consulting, client inquiries, and speaking engagements. As a part of Wood Mackenzie’s energy storage research team, the analysts serve clients who are responsible for the success of their firm’s technology roadmap, competitive analysis/positioning, product/market positioning and energy storage (hardware and software) deployment strategies.

Main responsibilities:

The Analyst works as part of a high-performing analyst team in addition to collaborating with Wood Mackenzie’s sales, marketing, and consulting teams. The Analyst is expected to:

• Conduct primary research on the energy storage system technology and operations, including costs, pricing, revenues, strategies, and vendors.
• Build and maintain database-oriented products to track financial trends, cost structures, and current status of different energy storage technologies.
• Develop a deep understanding of what Wood Mackenzie’s clients require to be successful, with a focus on effectively addressing critical business challenges.
• Write industry-leading research reports regarding trends, vendors and strategies across the energy storage landscape.
• Collaborate with peers across Wood Mackenzie to support research reports, data services, advisory services and conferences (set agenda, recruit speakers, moderate and present).
• Author multiple reports per year and actively develop visibility for this research and Wood Mackenzie through press, social media, and elsewhere.
• Work directly with sales and marketing via internal and external communications to actively help generate new sales, build larger engagements for existing clients, and effectively market completed research.
• Present at Wood Mackenzie-sponsored and industry-related events, and moderate client webinars.
• Establish an industry presence as an influential speaker and thinker; build relationships with senior industry professionals (vendors and utilities) as well as with the journalists who cover the sector and participate in vendor briefings and press inquiries as necessary.

Qualifications

Our products and people are our intellectual capital, so we welcome and reward intellectual excellence,