Sr. Market Analyst

About NEEA

Catalyzing the most efficient use of energy for a thriving Northwest.

The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) is an alliance of more than 140 utilities and energy efficiency organizations working on behalf of more than 13 million energy consumers. NEEA is dedicated to accelerating both electric and gas energy efficiency, leveraging its regional partnerships to advance the adoption of energy-efficient products, services and practices.

Since 1997, NEEA and its partners have saved energy equivalent to powering more than 640,000 homes each year. As the second-largest resource in the Northwest, energy efficiency can help offset most of the region’s new demand for energy, saving money and keeping the Northwest a healthy and vibrant place to live.

NEEA is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  This position is based in the Portland, OR metro area with a minimum of 2-days work onsite at NEEA’s office location.  Finalists must have eligibility to work in the US as NEEA is not able to provide VISA sponsorship or have remote work outside of the US. 

Summary

The Senior Market Analyst supports an interdisciplinary team dedicated to bringing affordable energy efficient products and services to market in a sustainable manner. This position is responsible for conducting quantiative analysis and modeling to develop market projections, providing market insights to program teams for decisionmaking, and estimating energy savings forecasts for internal and external reporting. 

This role brings analytic leadership and is highly cross-functional and influential. It requires analyzing and sythesizing data from diverse sources and formats, being engaged with the strategic questions of program teams to provide key data- and evidence-based insights, and communicating clearly with peers and upper management. The Senior Market Analyst will also contribute to key internally- and externally-facing deliverables for reporting energy savings and other value metrics that guide portfolio management decisions. This position will have a specific focus on NEEA’s Consumer Products portfolio. 

The incumbent will share our deep commitment to diversity and inclusion and advancing practices, strategies and policies that achieve equitable outcomes for all.

Salary range: $95,000 - $100,000 exempt

• salary is based on the applicants Experience, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Could This Be Your Dream Job?

Do you love working with data and research to generate insights for strategic decisions? Do you enjoy building models to quantify program strategy and potential? Does the prospect of brining analytic leadership to teams of mission-driven colleagues with diverse expertise excite you?  Are you the kind of person that will dig into the details to build defensible models and forecasts? Are you one to bring information to life and translate the numbers to tell a story to your team?

The Typical Day May Include…

• Meeting with a cross-functional team to synthesize the latest market research and data into insights that will influence future program direction and resulting energy savings forecast.
• Forecasting various ‘what if’s’ of a market intervention strategy to establish the range of potential market outcomes for an emerging technology.
• Supporting program strategy through brainstorming and refining logic models, research and evaluation plans, program maps, and market transformation theories.
• Presenting results from data analysis in ways that are easy to understand and use for people who do not typically interact with data.
• Combining multiple data sources and qualitative market intelligence to support a cohesive and comprehensive analysis of the market.
• Partnering with data analysts and market research and evaluation scientists to establish data needs, plan for data acquisitions, assess and manage data challenges, and prepare data for analysis.
• Helping program team members identify strategic questions and developing and executing plans to contribute information for addressing those questions through data analysis.
• Meeting with your market research and evaluation partner to define what questions need to be answered in the next round of research to inform your forecasting assumptions.
• Reading a final report from a field trial of an emerging technology to extract relevant datapoints that support assumptions in your market analysis and energy savings forecasts.
• Presenting your analysis to our Advisory Committees and discussing assumptions used for reporting market-wide efficiency gains to our funders.

What Are You Good At?

Top performers will be excited about boosting energy efficiency adoption among consumers and businesses across the Northwest region. The mission of decreasing customers’ energy costs and carbon emissions will energize the ideal candidate. You will enjoy using analytical approaches to forecast new product potential, as well as bringing leadership in market analysis to cross-functional teams. You understand how market contexts and program strategy inform market adoption forecasts. You will flex between the science of building out technical assumptions and documenting sources to the art of creating scenarios of what the future can be with each efficiency program in the Northwest.

You Likely Have The Following Experience:

• Producing trend analysis, sensitivity analyses, and risk and opportunity assessments.
• Building and maintaining models to report prior performance and predict future trends.
• Interpreting, synthesizing, and using research and evaluation evidence.
• Conducting analytic inquiry, from identifying priority questions, to preparing datasets and performing analyses, to interpreting and presenting results.
• Leveraging program strategy and market research to forecast trends and estimate associated outcomes within an error bound (e.g., estimating energy savings based on a market adoption forecast).
• Identifying data gaps/needs and articulating how data limitations affect interpretations of results.
• Accessing, integrating, and analyzing multiple data inputs to bring salient and timely information for strategic decisions and to tell complete and compelling analytic stories.
• Performing quality assurance on analyses and reports.
• Practicing leadership and collaboration to address team needs and achieve outcomes.
• Managing projects that include multiple deliverables and deadlines.
• Mentoring others to strengthen the knowledge and skills of a team.

Your Education, Experience, and Skills:

• Experience in analysis, research and/or quantitative modeling required. 
• Proven experience using data and analysis to integrate in program teams and influence business decisions.
• Bachelor's Degree in Economics, Finance, Business Administration, Public Administration, or related field. Master’s degree a plus.
• Experience in energy efficiency and/or energy codes and standards a plus.
• Excel proficiency is mandatory. Programming language skills a plus.
• Strong investigative and data inquiry skills. 
• Strong communication skills to accomplish collaborative tasks.
• Ability to conduct and provide documentation for detailed technical work.
• An equivalent combination of education, experience and training that would provide the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for the successful performance of the essential job duties will also be considered.

NEEA’s benefits highlights:

90% of medical/dental premiums paid by NEEA, employer funded Health Savings Account, automatic 6% retirement contribution with 2% matching, 17-days PTO, remote working options, flexible work schedule options, professional development.

Salary : $95,000 - $100,000