Sr Associate, Origination & Market Analysis

Repsol•Houston, TX

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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.
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.

Nice To Haves

Master's degree (MBA, MS Finance, MS Economics, MS Energy Systems, MS Analytics, or equivalent) preferred.

Responsibilities

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.
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.
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.