Energy Markets Specialist

Help us make a big green dent in the universe.

Responsibilities

• Lead energy-market coverage for ORIT, including route-to-market performance, revenue strategy, hedging, market risk and key commercial counterparties
• Build OEGEN's BESS commercial strategy across priority markets, including revenue underwriting, route-to-market, optimiser selection and risk management
• Provide senior market input into investment decisions, challenging assumptions on power prices, capture prices, ancillary services, balancing, negative pricing, grid constraints and commercial structures
• Develop clear standards and guidance for BESS and collocated assets, ensuring lessons from operational assets are reflected in new investment assumptions
• Lead or oversee complex commercial processes, including optimiser, route-to-market and strategic PPA tenders; work with external providers to deliver routine contracting efficiently where appropriate
• Monitor energy-market, regulatory and policy developments across OEGEN's priority markets, identifying risks and opportunities for funds and assets
• Work closely with Fund Asset Directors and Fund Management teams to develop and implement market strategies that support fund objectives, investor returns and risk appetite
• Manage relationships with traders, optimisers, balancing parties, advisers and other key commercial partners, holding them to account for performance
• Define and interpret quantitative analysis required for hedging, BESS, merchant exposure and portfolio risk, working with specialist analytical support where appropriate
• Communicate complex market issues clearly to Investment Committee, Asset Boards and investors, with practical recommendations and a clear view of risk

Requirements

• Significant experience in European power markets, renewable energy commercialisation, trading, optimisation or energy-market advisory
• Strong practical experience of BESS commercial strategy, including revenue modelling, route-to-market arrangements, ancillary services, dispatch considerations and optimiser performance
• Experience working for, or advising, a renewable IPP, fund manager, utility, trading house, optimiser or energy-market consultancy
• Excellent commercial judgement, with a track record of challenging and improving market assumptions, commercial structures or route-to-market strategies
• Strong understanding of renewable revenue drivers, including PPAs, merchant exposure, hedging, balancing, capture price, negative pricing, ancillary services and grid constraints
• High financial and numerical acumen, with the ability to build, review and challenge complex revenue models and investment assumptions
• Experience leading complex commercial processes and managing external counterparties, including PPA, route-to-market, optimiser or trading arrangements
• Ability to work credibly with investment, technical, fund-management and asset-management teams, translating market complexity into clear decisions
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present commercial recommendations to senior management, Investment Committee and investors