Energy Markets Analyst - Germany (M/W/D)

Our Energy Management Department is looking for an Energy Markets Analyst to join its European team, based in Karlsruhe, Hamburg or Paris.

Responsibilities

As part of the Energy Management Europe team, directly reporting the Head of Energy Management Europe, the Energy Markets Analyst will have the following responsibilities:

• Support Neoen ambitious expansion plans and contribute to commercial development by bringing combination of market expertise and quantitative analysis, with primarily a strong focus on Germany, but also occasionally other geographies
• Build up and share expertise about regulatory frameworks and market structures (Energy markets, Capacity markets, Reserve markets…)
• Actively participle in regulatory meetings with various market stakeholders and key players in the German energy sector (TSOs, DSOs, traders, associations, etc…)
• Assess market fundamentals and trends, monitor regulatory evolutions and elaborate go-to-market strategies for storage assets
• Deliver long-term power markets analysis by leveraging external scenarios and models and developing internal ones
• Build optimization and modeling tools (in collaboration with the Energy Management Department Quantitative Engineers) and/or deliver data-driven analysis to support development of new business models
• Integrate quantitative observations, market knowledge and experience into business and strategic recommendations
• Support contractual negotiations with Neoen customers led by the local Development teams

Build the market operation framework for our pipeline of assets in advanced development or construction in Germany:

• Identify and analyze organization requirements (Wholesale market access, Balancing market access, Balancing responsible perimeter, interfaces with TSO…)
• Define trading and bidding strategies of our storage assets, in collaboration with the Energy Management Department Quantitative Engineers
• Define day-to-day operation processes
• Review and challenge the optimization of BESS performed by third parties

The candidate will need the following skills and experience to succeed in this role:

• Master’s Degree in Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Finance or Data Science
• 5+ year experience in the energy industry
• Strong understanding of the German electricity markets, with in-depth knowledge of intraday trading
• Strong analytical skills, experience of building models leveraging optimization and Data Science techniques would be a plus
• Technical and programming skills in Python, including with libraries for Machine Learning (Keras, Scikit-Learn…)
• Fluent in English and German, French would be a plus
• On the soft skills side, we are looking for someone:
• Proactive, curious with a strong appetite for innovation and for proposing and exploring new ideas
• Rigorous, organized and ready to work on several projects in parallel in a fast running and high skilled environment
• Strong communication skills and a strong appetite for international collaboration with teams across more than 15 countries, as well as active participation in external meetings to advocate for Neoen’s interests