Commercial Specialist, Gas & Power Insights

S&P Global • Houston, TX

1d • Onsite

About The Position

This Commercial Specialist supports sales of electricity market application subscriptions sold by S&P Energy. The ideal candidate has strong data skills, short-term power trading experience and enough market knowledge to understand power plant cash flows and valuations. The role involves mastering S&P Energy's power market tools, supporting sales through participation in diagnosis calls and demonstrations, responding to client questions post-purchase, and meeting sales goals. S&P Global Energy provides comprehensive views of global energy and commodities markets to enable customers to make superior decisions and create long-term, sustainable value. They offer four core capabilities: Platts for news and pricing; CERA for research and advisory; Horizons for energy expansion and sustainability solutions; and Events for industry collaboration. S&P Global is committed to Advancing Essential Intelligence through world-leading benchmarks, data, and insights.

Requirements

• Experience in short-term power trading, optimizing energy, ancillary services, capacity, and environmental attributes across nodal and zonal markets
• Hands-on experience with power plant valuation, siting and origination, M&A, or project finance analytics, including modeling battery, solar, wind, and gas assets, along with familiarity with renewable resource concepts such as capacity factor, ELCC, and captured price
• Strong data and technical skills with programming languages such as Python, API technologies like REST, and cloud platforms including but not limited to GCP, Databricks, Snowflake, and SQL databases
• Ability to understand client workflows and align solutions with S&P Energy applications, including experience with data formats such as JSON and AI interface technologies
• Experience supporting multiple delivery channels, including spreadsheet applications like Excel, flat file formats, cloud platforms such as Databricks and Snowflake, API technologies like REST, and conversational interfaces including AI chat tools
• Consultative selling experience with technical and modeling-intensive buyers, including teams focused on market analytics, data science, valuation and M&A, and origination functions, with ability to articulate differentiated value propositions

Responsibilities

• Master how to use the power market tools/applications offered by S&P Energy.
• Work with the wider commercial team to support sales of these power market tools/applications by participating in diagnosis calls to determine the use case for the power market tools/applications.
• Demonstrate to potential clients how these power market tools/applications once the use case has been established.
• Urgently respond to client questions about how to use these tools/applications after the initial purchase.
• Meet/exceed sales goals and document activities and accomplishments in internal systems to support annual performance reviews.

Benefits

• Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
• Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
• Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
• Competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
• Perks for partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.
• Retail discounts to referral incentive awards.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed