Managing Consultant - Power Markets

Job Family:

Sustainability Consulting

Travel Required:

Up to 25%

Clearance Required:

None

What You Will Do:

The Wholesale Markets & Analysis Team’s work supports investors bringing in new grid-scale and community renewable and storage resources and helps utilities in their decarbonization and renewable integration efforts.

 

Our team develops and maintains a suite of quantitative market models that Guidehouse’s key clients, renewable and storage developers, and utilities depend on for capital investment decisions and grid reliability. Through our wholesale market expertise and modeling capabilities, we forecast energy prices across North America, along with generating resource additions and retirements, hourly optimization of assets across different price/revenue streams, and more. The team maintains its independent view of North American markets in its bi-annual Reference Case.

 

On our team you will:

• Be an expert in ISO/RTO markets across North America, with knowledge ranging from Locational Marginal Pricing, to capacity auctions and ancillary services

• Be intimately familiar with the economics and policies driving renewable and battery storage development across North America

• Run simulations of the operation of the electric grid using a production-cost model

• Forecast the addition/retirement of generating resources using a capacity expansion model

• Be an expert in how utilities procure power, integrate renewables, and maintain reliability

• Help us develop our Reference Case and make it even more valuable for our clients.

Managing Consultants owns client engagements from cultivation to completion.  In this role, you will be accountable for the activities of the project team and support the day-to-day management of the client relationship. You are expected to effectively develop and manage work plans, staffing, deadlines and budgets for multiple complex projects simultaneously.  Work products are expected to be high-quality and client-ready. In this visible role, you will lead team meetings, and guide, manage, and coach consultants and senior consultants, providing constructive feedback on project participation and overall career development.  The Managing Consultants work closely with Directors and Managing Directors to keep them abreast of project progress and important developments. Managing Consultants support sales initiatives and practice development. 

Responsibilities include:

• Tracking and analyzing energy market trends

• Compiling reports, presentations, and other documents to communicate solutions, strategies, and analysis to clients

• Supporting the day-to-day management of client relationships

• Developing and managing work plans, staffing, deadlines, and budgets for multiple complex projects simultaneously

• Developing and using analytical models, programming, and simulations to forecast market prices, conduct research and development, and create tools to improve productivity and accuracy.

• Performing data collection, manipulation, and analyses, which may involve spreadsheet and database creation and management

• The ability to assume complete ownership of significant projects is essential.

What You Will Need:

• Bachelor’s degree in a business, policy, environmental, economics, finance, engineering, science and/or related discipline

• A minimum of 5-7 years of experience in a related field (e.g. business strategy, energy)

• Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills

• Experienced with data analytics, data modeling and visualization. 

• Proactive and independent work style

• Ability to assume ownership of significant portions of tasks while collaborating with a close-knit team

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Demonstrated proficiency with researching, spreadsheets, databases, word processing, and slide presentation software

• Ability to travel as required

• No sponsorship is available for this position; Due to nature of client engagements, US Citizenship restrictions may apply

• The successful candidate must not be subject to employment restrictions from a former employer (such as a non-compete) that would prevent the candidate from performing the job responsibilities as described.

• This position is virtual position to all candidates located in the United States

• The salary range for this role may vary based on relevant degree, work experience and physical location at time of hire

• Level of hire will be determined through Guidehouse intervi