Business Development Advisor

What You Can Expect

As our Structuring Advisor will collaborate with front, mid, and back-office stakeholders to develop the valuation and integration framework for complex retail power transactions, with a focus on integrated renewable and flexible generation structures. The successful candidate will possess knowledge of retail cost components, retail product structures, wholesale power markets, ISO operations, grid-scale renewables, battery storage, and distributed generation. The Structuring Advisor will support creative products to meet customer needs while advancing solutions through the organization with tact and discipline. This position is based in Houston, TX, and reports to the Head of Structuring.

FRONT OFFICE COLLABORTATION: Customer Engagement, Product Structure Refinement, New Product Development

• Partner with Sales, Origination, and Marketing to support customer facing discussions and proposal development
• Present opportunities to Supply leadership while stewarding transactions through approval protocols
• Support new product development initiatives

MID OFFICE COLLABORATION: Valuation and Booking

• Lead solutions structuring activities across multiple opportunities
• Engage with internal stakeholders both within Supply and NORAM to obtain the relevant inputs to support valuation frameworks
• Collaborate with Portfolio Management to ensure that transactions adhere to risk guidelines, can be booked into enterprise risk systems and can be integrated into ongoing operational activities
• Collaborate with Wholesale Origination to ensure that upstream wholesale supply meets the requirements of downstream retail products
• Engage with Risk, Credit and Legal functions to ensure that upstream and downstream transactions have been vetted and that required risk premiums, credit and legal provisions are reflected in contract documents

BACK-OFFICE COLLABORATION: Product Delivery and Customer Experience

• Collaborate with back-office stakeholders to ensure that transactions can be successfully booked, enrolled and billed
• Ensure that unique reporting requirements have been socialized among stakeholders and a willing owner is identified

What You Will Bring

• You hold a Bachelor’s degree, preferably in a technically oriented discipline such as Accounting, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, or Computer Science. In lieu of a degree, a combination of relevant years of hands-on experience in retail portfolio management or a related field will be considered
  
• You have a minimum of seven (7) years of relevant power experience in power trading and other wholesale power market activities, retail portfolio management, retail pricing, structuring and settlements
• You have knowledge of ISO operations and settlement protocols across multiple ISOs (ERCOT, PJM, MISO, NYISO, ISO-NE)
• You have strong quantitative and analytical skills, with expertise in developing and deploying complex Excel-based costing and structuring models
• You are adept at challenging organizational inertia and aligning cross functional teams
• People enjoy working with you and want to see you succeed
• You have comfort in presenting and defending transactions to Supply leadership

Additional Details

• This role is eligible under our hybrid work policy. Business Development is a highly collaborative function, and the successful candidate will be motivated to work in the office beyond the company’s established threshold, actively participating in ad-hoc ideation sessions and leveraging internal networks to drive success.
• Must be available to travel domestically 5-10% of the time with the need for some overnight trips
• Must be willing and able to comply with all ENGIE ethics and safety policies

Compensation

Salary Range: $113,900 – $174,570 USD annually

This represents the average expected pay range for a qualified candidate.

Actual offered salary may depend on geography, experience, industry knowledge, education, internal pay alignment, or other bona fide factors.

ENGIE complies with all federal, state, and local minimum wage laws. Actual salary offered may vary depending on geography, experience, education, internal pay alignment, or other bona fide factors.

In addition to base pay, this position is eligible for a competitive bonus / incentive plan.

Your Talent Acquisition Partner can share more specific information regarding the benefits or the salary for the position based on the work location

At ENGIE, we take your well-being seriously. Our comprehensive benefits package includes options for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, employer-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, ESPP, generous paid time off including wellness days, holidays and leave programs. We also help you plan for retirement by offering a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with a company match. But that's not all – we're dedicated to the health and happiness of your entire family, offering supplemental benefits for full time employees that enhance emotional and physical well-being through all stages of life from family forming to caregiver benefits. Explore our benefits package to see how we can support you. Learn more.

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