Energy Market Policy & Insights Analyst in Brierley Hill

The Green Recruitment Company is working with an award-winning energy consultancy in the UK, delivering a range of services to over 4,000 customers, including energy procurement, contract management, and energy and carbon reduction solutions.

They strive to provide excellence in all areas of service to our customers, colleagues and suppliers based on being professional, efficient, conscientious and progressive at all times.

Communications through all levels is the key to their success and pride themselves on our exceptional quality of service.

We strongly believe in supporting every member of the team to become the best they can during their journey.

We are committed to providing a positive environment where people can grow and develop both professionally and personally.

About the role

As our Market Insight Manager, you will be responsible for analysing, interpreting and providing

actionable insights related to the UK energy markets.

You will collaborate with various teams to

look at market trends, assess risks, and develop strategies to enable our customers to capitalise on

opportunities within the energy sector.

You will be responsible for creating daily market updates, utilising publicly available data and

subscription services, to be issued to internal and external stakeholders.

This role involves providing market intelligence, both internally, to key stakeholders in the business

but also externally to customers who are looking for recommendations on how and when to

purchase their energy.

Primary duties

• Conduct in-depth analysis of wholesale energy markets using a variety of sources,
• looking at supply, demand and market fundamentals.
• Stay up to date with market trends, regulatory and policy changes that may impact
• customer energy spends.
• Conduct data analysis and statistical modelling to identify patterns that might aid buying
• decisions.
• Use research to formulate and support customer energy trading strategies to optimise
• purchasing decisions.
• Publish market intelligence reports for external distribution on a daily, weekly and
• monthly basis.
• Present data driven and timely insights to both internal stakeholders and key clients.
• Support with conducting trades on behalf of customers and ensure systems are updated
• to reflect current positions
• Development and maintenance of position reporting and performance metrics to evidence performance of strategies against market measures

Skills

• Strong communication skills with the ability to speak to people at a variety of levels of seniority and knowledge
• Ability to build and maintain relationships within client organisations
• Excellent report writing skills
• Highly computer literate especially with excel/PowerPoint/PowerBI
• Logical and analytical thinking

Knowledge

• Experience of the UK energy wholesale markets (gas, power, carbon, LNG)
• Robust knowledge of UK energy regulation and policy
• Knowledge of non-commodity costs and their price drivers
• Experience of market platforms such as Bloomberg/ICIS Heren/Reuters desirable.

Expertise

• Ability to convey complex concepts in a simple format to key clients and colleagues.
• Ability to develop energy purchasing strategies based on available market data