Research Associate - Power & Renewables

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Company Description

Wood Mackenzie is the global research, analytics, and consultancy business powering the natural resources industry. For 50 years, we have been providing the quality data, analytics, and insights our customers rely on to inspire their decision-making.

Our dedicated oil, gas & LNG, power & renewables, chemicals, metals & mining sector teams are located around the world and deliver a variety of projects based on our assessment and valuation of thousands of individual assets, companies, and economic indicators such as market supply, demand, and price trends.

We have over 1,900 employees in 30 locations, serving customers in nearly 80 countries. Together, we inspire and innovate the markets we serve – providing invaluable intelligence to help our customers overcome the toughest challenges, and make strategic decisions that will, ultimately, accelerate the world’s transition to a more sustainable future.

Job Description

Wood Mackenzie’s Short-Term Power Market Research team comprises industry experts who are detail-oriented, intellectually curious, commercially savvy and have robust technical abilities.

Your interest in market research proves you hold these characteristics and are comfortable taking complex, disparate ideas and distilling them into simple, actionable analytics.

About The Role

The Market Associate will serve as the driving force in delivering industry-leading short-term power outlooks based on a blend of proprietary and public data.

Market Associate Core Responsibilities

• Daily support of tools and models that include spatial, data visualization, and power flow applications to identify and solve problems in the power industry;
• Prepare client-facing content on a timely and accurate basis;
• Ensure the highest standards of data quality and availability are met and maintained for use by the team and broader organization;
• Liaise with developers and data collection teams to improve efficiency and expand analytical capabilities;
• Run regional support workbooks daily and continuously improve the level of granularity provided to the team and customer;
• Manipulate large datasets and determine correlations and relationships between potential market drivers, prices, and events;
• Improve current processes by automating critical tasks using macros (visual basic/Python);
• Develop an understanding of energy market fundamentals to improve analytical capabilities further and occasionally interact with clients via phone, email, or other appropriate means;
• Present the teams with research projects & presentations on relevant topics and improvements to processes and methodology as requested
  

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in economics, finance, math, stats, or energy related discipline.
• Previous experience or demonstrated interest in power vertical
• 1+ years of business and/or professional work experience
• Preferable to have experience in using programming languages such as Python, Visual Basic, or comparable languages
• You are committed to contributing to a welcoming and inclusive environment, are sensitive to diverse perspectives, and are passionate about equity in the workplace.
  

Additional Information

WoodMackenzie is an equal opportunities employer.

We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran’s status, age or disability.

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