Job Summary:The Senior Associate, Origination, Commercial Analytics & Market Analysis will support the growth of the Company's renewable energy portfolio through a combination of customer origination, market intelligence, commercial analysis, transaction support, and pricing strategy. The role sits at the intersection of customer demand, power market fundamentals, and project commercialization.
Job Requirements:Market Analysis & Intelligence
- Develop market intelligence to inform origination and commercialization strategies across PJM, MISO, NYISO, ERCOT, and WECC.
- Monitor power market fundamentals including supply additions and retirements, load growth, transmission constraints, congestion trends, capacity markets, and renewable penetration.
- Evaluate evolving market conditions and identify regions, customers, technologies, and products with the highest commercial potential.
- Analyze forward energy, capacity, ancillary service, and REC market dynamics.
- Assess impacts of regulatory, policy, and market rule changes on project economics and customer demand.
- Produce market outlooks and commercial opportunity assessments for senior management.
- Identify emerging customer segments and offtake opportunities, including hyperscalers, utilities, C&I customers, data centers, and energy-intensive industries.
- Support development teams by evaluating market attractiveness and project competitiveness at both a regional and nodal level.
- Conduct competitor analysis and track offtake activity, PPA pricing trends, and market transaction activity.
- Recommend go-to-market strategies based on market fundamentals and customer demand signals.
Commercial Analytics & Deal Valuation
- Support commercial analysis for renewable energy, PPA, VPPA, REC, capacity, and other structured energy transactions.
- Coordination with M&A/pricing team on pricing, valuation, and margin analysis.
- Contribute qualitative narratives to support the valuation of project revenue streams under multiple market scenarios.
- Evaluate capacity accreditation, ELCC impacts, and resource adequacy frameworks.
- Support pricing recommendations and negotiation strategies.
- Develop investment committee materials and executive-level decision support analyses.
Origination Support
- Partner with originators to identify and advance commercial opportunities.
- Support customer engagement, proposal development, and transaction execution.
- Participate in customer meetings and commercial discussions.
- Prepare customer-facing market insight materials and pricing recommendations.
- Assist with RFP responses and competitive bidding processes.
- Track commercial opportunities and support pipeline management processes.
Qualifications:- Must be eligible to work for any U.S. employer without the need for sponsorship now or in the future.
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, Energy Systems, Statistics, Business, or a related quantitative field.
- Master's degree (MBA, MS Finance, MS Economics, MS Energy Systems, MS Analytics, or equivalent) preferred.
- 3-7 years of experience in renewable energy, power markets, energy trading, project development, energy consulting, infrastructure investing, utility procurement, or energy finance.
- Experience supporting the origination, negotiation, and execution of renewable energy transactions, including:
- Physical PPAs
- Virtual PPAs (VPPAs)
- Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) transactions
- Capacity agreements
- Structured energy products
- Understanding of North American organized power markets, including PJM, MISO, NYISO, ERCOT, and/or WECC.
- Experience evaluating market fundamentals, including:
- Supply and demand dynamics
- Capacity markets and resource adequacy
- Transmission and congestion trends
- Renewable penetration and capture price impacts
- Regulatory and policy developments
- Strong financial modeling and transaction valuation experience.
- Experience building market outlooks and translating market intelligence into commercial recommendations.
- Prior experience supporting investment committee, executive leadership, or board-level presentations.
- Proficiency with data analytics, visualization, and reporting tools.
- Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with Development, Finance, Legal, Commercial Operations, and Leadership teams.
