Market Intelligence Lead

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is an American organization that operates Texas's electrical grid, the Texas Interconnection, which supplies power to more than 25 million Texas customers and represents 90 percent of the state's electric load. Our client is the first independent system operator (ISO) in the United States and one of nine ISOs in North America. Our client works with the Texas Reliability Entity (TRE), one of eight regional entities within the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) that coordinate to improve reliability of the bulk power grid. Our client is a membership-based 501(c) nonprofit corporation, and its members include consumers, electric cooperatives, generators, power marketers, retail electric providers, investor-owned electric utilities (transmission and distribution providers), and municipally owned electric utilities.

Job Title: Market Intelligence Lead

Location: Taylor, TX, 76574

Duration: 24 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Description

• This is a senior, individual-contributor engagement to stand up market modeling capability within Client's Market Intelligence & Strategy team.
• The contractor guides the selection, procurement (where necessary), and customization of market forecasting tools spanning capacity expansion modeling, production cost modeling, and market design prototyping, and builds enduring team capability through training and knowledge transfer.
• The contractor works independently as an individual contributor with no supervisory responsibility, and exercises expert judgment on whether candidate tools are fit for purpose in modeling the Client electricity market and power system.
• This is a build-and-transfer engagement. The objective is to establish durable modeling capability that Client staff can operate and sustain after the engagement ends, not to establish a permanent operating role.

Tool Selection & Procurement

Elicit and document modeling requirements from Market Intelligence & Strategy team members across capacity expansion, production cost, and market design prototyping needs.

Evaluate candidate commercial and open-source tools against documented requirements and develop a shortlist for each modeling need area.

Participate in and support the vendor selection and procurement process, including a recommendation, where a suitable tool is not already in use.

Guide customization and configuration of selected tools to ensure they are fit for purpose in modeling the Client market and power system.

Capability Building & Knowledge Transfer

Provide hands-on training to team members on selected tools to build durable in-house capability.

Develop written training materials in a format agreed with the Supervisor, Market Intelligence & Strategy.

Develop process and procedure documentation for ongoing tool use, for adoption by the team.

Serve as subject matter expert on selected tools, providing ongoing technical guidance to team members.

Analysis & Cross-Team Engagement

Run modeling analyses directly to support team deliverables, as needed.

Engage with other Client modeling teams to understand existing capabilities, tools, and best practices, and incorporate relevant lessons into tool selection and configuration.

Example Deliverables

A governing Statement of Work specifies all deliverables. Representative deliverables include:

A selected and configured modeling tool for each identified need area (capacity expansion, production cost, market design prototyping).

Documented requirements and evaluation records supporting tool selection and procurement recommendations.

Training delivered to team members, transferring working knowledge of selected tools.

Written training materials, in a format agreed with the Supervisor, Market Intelligence & Strategy.

Adopted process and procedure documentation for ongoing tool use.

Representative modeling analyses or study outputs produced using selected tools, as requested.

Required Skills

Demonstrated ability to elicit technical requirements and translate them into tool-evaluation criteria.

Ability to evaluate and compare capacity expansion, production cost, and market design prototyping tools against defined requirements.

Strong training and knowledge-transfer skills, including development of clear technical documentation.

Working knowledge of power system and electricity market modeling concepts, sufficient to assess tool fit-for-purpose for the Client market and power system.

Capability to run modeling analyses directly is a benefit, though not prescriptive to any single toolset.

Experience

Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in power system or electricity market modeling, tool selection, or a related technical field. 10 or more years preferred.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Economics, Computer Science, or a related discipline, or equivalent knowledge in power system and market modeling gained through a combination of education and experience.

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

TekWissen is an emerging global human capital, recruitment and IT services organization. Operating since 2009, we draw upon more than a decade of staffing experience to deliver critical talent acquisition solutions and IT engagements for our clients. We re founded on a culture that is passionate about delivering tailored solutions, that create lasting partnerships.

Our global footprint covers six countries: United States, Canada, Australia, India, United Kingdom and the Philippines. This allows us to work in close partnership with organizations and manage everything from global talent needs with demanding resourcing strategies, to single sites with lower recruitment volumes.

TekWissen is an equal opportunity employer supporting workplace diversity.