Director of Power Market Intelligence

Wood Mackenzie•Houston, TX

19h•Hybrid

About The Position

Wood Mackenzie is seeking a full-time Director, Power Market Intelligence, to lead its North American power market advisory team. This team provides daily fundamental and price forecasts for all seven North American ISOs, supporting over 100 daily customer interactions with asset owners, traders, and energy retailers. The role involves driving team transformation, enhancing output quality, increasing automation for tailored customer advisory, and building customer trust and expertise. This position reports to Wood Mackenzie Trading Analytics leadership.

Requirements

At least seven years of experience in North American power market analysis, forecasting, or trading.
Expertise across multiple ISOs.
Direct exposure to desk environments where analysts informed live market decisions.
Thorough understanding of day-ahead, real-time, and congestion dynamics.
Approximately four years of experience leading a team of three or more analysts or researchers.
Experience collaborating directly with customers (traders, asset owners, retailers) as a trusted advisory voice.
Familiarity with technology and tooling decisions, including forecasting methodologies and modeling platforms.
Ability to engage with product and engineering teams on automation priorities.
Experience building or rebuilding analyst teams in fast-paced environments, including defining capability frameworks, talent benchmarking and management, and creating retention strategies.

Nice To Haves

A thorough understanding of power market price forecasting and where Wood Mackenzie's approach creates the most value.
The ability to connect research quality to customer outcomes, understanding how analyst work translates into satisfaction, loyalty, and long-term partnerships.
Effective communication and listening skills, with the ability to translate complex market dynamics clearly.
Comfortable working through uncertainty and change collaboratively.
Genuinely committed to equity and inclusion, actively working to create a team where people of all backgrounds feel they belong, are valued, and can see a future at Wood Mackenzie.

Responsibilities

Strengthening customer relationships by owning the quality of analyst output across seven American ISOs, including forecast accuracy, commentary depth, and responsiveness.
Serving as a trusted, approachable point of contact for key North American accounts, building relationships based on market understanding and responsiveness.
Collaborating with Sales and Customer Success to understand customer value and ensure product/service improvements meet their needs.
Fostering a personalized service culture where analysts proactively share insights and deliver analysis tailored to customer portfolios.
Owning the team's evolution from a centralized, manual operation to a customized advisory model, defining the end state, sequencing change, and driving progress.
Defining the automation agenda for the MI team, prioritizing workflows and partnering with analysts, data scientists, and engineering.
Aligning team structure and talent strategy with leadership to improve coverage and responsiveness to customer needs.
Recruiting, developing, and retaining senior market analysts across North America, supporting their career goals.
Revising the career framework for the market intelligence team, considering customer needs for market specialization, analytical rigor, and relationship management.
Collaborating with HR on compensation, benchmarking, and retention strategies.
Maintaining a sharp view on customer needs, market dynamics, and the competitive landscape to evolve analytical capabilities.
Contributing to the Trading Analytics product strategy and roadmap, connecting team experience to product improvements.
Traveling across the customer footprint to engage with analyst teams and customers in person.
Owning the team’s contributions to customer retention and satisfaction, working with product, sales, and customer success.