
Specialist, Commercial Growth & Analytics
- Houston, TX
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Manage and develop the retail costing process for the assigned US deregulated markets with a focus on competitiveness and business growth while mitigating key exposures
- Analyze and model cost component risks and premiums
- Develop, automate and maintain reporting of the cost components, strategies and methodologies that feed into pricing and gross margin models
- Track, optimize and explain PnL for non-tradable components
- Effectively manage the regulatory rate change process
- Track and understand market and state rules that impact retail costing
- Work closely with regulatory and compliance team when appropriate
- Cost and support development of new product initiatives
- Serve as a SME for other functional departments, including Pricing and Operations, in ISO component level costing and settlements
- Obtain quarterly sign off for all costing methodologies and prices with appropriate groups
- Build and support information library and data infrastructure
- Serve as key SME to Sales and other customers on costing related questions
- Track and analyze competitiveness feedback
- Produce market collateral to Sales, channel partners and customers
- Present in customer meetings and seminars as requested by Sales
- Develop knowledge and experience in all deregulated energy markets in NA
- Other duties and responsibilities as may arise and may be assigned by management
- Minimum 5 years of experience in a substantially similar role
- Undergraduate degree in Business, Economics, Statistics, quantitative Finance or Engineering
- Strong understanding of the retail power pricing process, including model development
- Understanding of cost structures of deregulated electric markets, including capacity, transmission, ancillary services and losses
- Proficient in collecting, querying, organizing and analyzing complex data, evaluating information and drawing logical conclusions
- Prior experience with working with ISO settlements data
- Advanced knowledge of Excel, VBA and SQL
- Show leadership, be able to work autonomously, be resourceful and well organized
- Be a self-starting individual with ability to independently lead project teams and enact business process change
- Work across multi-disciplinary functions
- Able to interact at all levels of the organization with ease
- Highly motivated, self-sufficient and enthusiastic individual who has strong desire to grow within the company