Director - Load Analytics - NRG Energy - Houston

Job description
Based in Houston, our Director will be the key interface responsible for NRG’s entire retail and wholesale load forecasting operations. The position will entail supporting all load forecasting activities for revenue generating, costing, trading, and supply organizations across multiple markets and focus on load impacting industry/market trends, driving work streams to incorporate these changes to reduce load and earnings variability.

Design framework to identify, quantify forecast variance drivers and improve the overall accuracy of short and long-term forecasts.

Implement new performance metric for quantifying economic impact of load variance.

Manage the load forecast performance across multiple markets at the retail segment level, i.e. Residential, Small Business and Commercial/Industrial segments.

Communication to Senior Management, Trading, and Supply Group of retail electric business drivers and market fundamentals, both macro and micro indicators. Develop and manage an integrated load forecasting support framework for current and future requirements of QSE Operations, Marketing, Costing, and Commercial Operations (Trading & Structured Deals).

Database industry trends that could impact future load consumption. Conceptualize, Initiate and Drive projects to incorporate new trends/changes into load forecasting

Provide continuous feedback that enables improvement lifecycle load forecasting, existing forecasting methodologies and/or development of new methodologies.

Work with external entities like ERCOT, PJM to provide organization’s view on market matters that impact load forecasting.
Implement new systems, tools, research to continuously improve load research and processing capabilities.

Guide professional development of team members, ensuring they obtain necessary skills and capabilities to deliver committed outcomes.

Develop acquisition, attrition and weather impact models.
Desired Skills and Experience
Education: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four year college or university with major in quantitative discipline such as Engineering, Mathematics, Finance, Economics, or Statistics. Master’s degree preferred.

Experience: A minimum of 10 years experience; 5+ years in energy industry with a preference toward electricity; Strong - 5+ years of managerial experience. Load forecasting experience preferred. Mass markets retail electricity experience preferred.

Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Strong analytical skills
Strong leadership skills capable of driving change across the organization
Capable of building, growing, and mentoring a high performance team
Ability to communicate and interact effectively at all levels of the organization
Able to manage competing interests and drive to a resolution
Ability to execute multiple projects at a high level of quality
Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks while adapting to changing environment
Excellent quantitative and analytical skills including framework and execution
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Ability to synthesize analysis into recommendations and management presentations
Performs well with ambiguity and incomplete data
Strong knowledge of retail electric markets
Operational to advanced knowledge of Excel is required.
Personal computer proficiency with word processing, presentation software and database skills

Working Conditions:

Fast-paced professional office environment.
Occasional travel.

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