Director of Power Market Intelligence

Wood Mackenzie•Boston, MA

1d•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.
Skills: Thorough understanding of power market price forecasting and its value to customers.
Ability to connect research quality to customer outcomes (satisfaction, loyalty, partnerships).
Effective communication and listening skills, able to translate complex market dynamics clearly.
Comfortable working through uncertainty and change collaboratively.
Genuinely committed to equity and inclusion, creating a team where all backgrounds feel they belong.

Nice To Haves

Experience defining capability frameworks, talent benchmarking and management, and creating retention strategies.

Responsibilities

Strengthen customer relationships by owning the quality of analyst output across seven American ISOs, ensuring forecast accuracy, depth of commentary, and responsiveness.
Serve as a trusted point of contact for key North American accounts, building relationships based on market understanding and responsiveness.
Collaborate with Sales and Customer Success to understand customer needs and ensure product/service improvements align with them.
Foster a personalized service culture where analysts proactively share insights and deliver tailored analysis.
Shape the team's evolution from a centralized, manual operation to a customized advisory model.
Define and drive the automation agenda for the Market Intelligence team, prioritizing workflows and partnering with data science and engineering.
Align team structure and talent strategy with leadership to improve coverage and responsiveness to customer needs.
Recruit, develop, and retain senior market analysts, supporting their career goals.
Revise the career framework for the market intelligence team, focusing on market specialization, analytical rigor, and relationship management.
Collaborate with HR on compensation, benchmarking, and retention strategies.
Maintain a sharp view on customer needs, market dynamics, and the competitive landscape to evolve analytical capabilities.
Contribute to the Trading Analytics product strategy and roadmap.
Travel across the customer footprint to engage with analyst teams and customers.
Own the team’s contributions to customer retention and satisfaction, driving accountability for high service standards.