Managing Consultant-Energy Markets
About The Position
The Managing Consultant will work on Guidehouse’s Energy Markets & Systems Integrated Modeling Team, which supports developers, operators, sponsors, utilities, and large commercial companies with grid-scale and community renewable energy, storage, green fuels, ESG, decarbonization, and renewable integration efforts. The team develops and maintains quantitative market models used for capital investment decisions, business improvement, and grid reliability. Its work includes forecasting North American energy market conditions and resource additions and retirements, optimizing assets using market instruments, and identifying business opportunities and risks. The team also maintains an independent view of North American wholesale power markets through its bi-annual Reference Case. The role involves originating, closing, and leading complex client engagements; managing staff and supporting business development; analyzing energy market trends; shaping client inquiries into scopes of work; and communicating analyses and recommendations through reports and presentations. The Managing Consultant supports client relationships and develops, applies, reviews, and approves analytical models, simulations, and related data analysis. The position also contributes expertise on ISO/RTO markets, renewable and storage economics, grid dispatch, generation capacity expansion, and energy procurement, while helping develop the Reference Case, expand the client base, and mentor junior consultants.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, energy finance, or engineering and five or more years of post-graduation experience in a related field, such as consulting, strategy, or project development; or a master’s degree in one of these disciplines and three or more years of related post-graduation experience.
- Post-graduation work experience with economic dispatch models such as Aurora, Origin, PLEXOS, BID3, or PSO.
- Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience with data analytics, data modeling, and visualization.
- Proactive and independent work style.
- Ability to take ownership of significant portions of tasks while collaborating with a close-knit team.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to travel.
- Ability to work in a Guidehouse or client office location.
- Currently reside in the contiguous United States.
Nice To Haves
- Preference for candidates within reasonable driving distance of a core Guidehouse or client office location.
- Graduate degree (master’s, MBA, or PhD) in business, policy, economics, energy finance, or engineering.
- Experience in generation and storage asset management.
Responsibilities
- Originate, close, and lead large and complex client engagements.
- Manage staff and assist with related business development efforts.
- Track and analyze energy market trends.
- Translate client inquiries and challenges into actionable scopes of work.
- Compile reports, presentations, and other documents to communicate solutions, strategies, and analysis to clients.
- Support the day-to-day management of client relationships.
- Develop and use analytical models, programming, and simulations to forecast market prices, conduct research and development, and create tools to improve productivity and accuracy.
- Review and approve model outputs through data collection, manipulation, and analysis, including spreadsheet and database creation and management.
- Apply expertise in North American ISO/RTO markets, including local energy pricing, capacity auctions, ancillary services, load composition, and demand response.
- Supervise simulations of future power transmission grid dispatch using an economic dispatch model.
- Review generation resource additions and retirements across ISO/RTO markets using a capacity expansion model.
- Help develop the team’s Reference Case and expand its client base.
- Mentor junior consultants in energy markets, business development, and client management.
Benefits
- Medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance
- Personal and family sick time and company-paid holidays
- Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
- Parental leave and adoption assistance
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Basic life and supplemental life insurance
- Health savings account and dental/vision and dependent care flexible spending accounts
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Student loan paydown
- Tuition reimbursement
- Personal development and learning opportunities
- Skills development and certifications
- Employee referral program
- Corporate-sponsored events and community outreach
- Emergency back-up childcare program
- Mobility stipend
- Flexible benefits package
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
