Energy Market Analyst - Trading

Description

• Act as a trusted advisor to power trading customers, helping them build and refine models that directly support trading decisions.
• Support business development and thought leadership for the trading segment: Generate insights, deliver technical demonstrations, and provide expertise during the sales process to drive the adoption of PLEXOS in trading organisations.
• Conduct market research and provide thought leadership on emerging trends in power trading, generating insights that can be shared with customers and at industry events.
• Train trading teams to effectively use PLEXOS for decision support and strategy development.
• Develop original studies on power trading topics, starting with Energy Exemplar's simulation-ready datasets, and present findings in webinars and conferences.
• Collaborate with the product team to provide feedback on market needs and contribute to enhancements in PLEXOS for trading applications.
• Provide guidance on industry best practices for market modelling in trading contexts.
• Design and implement innovative modelling approaches using PLEXOS, tailored to trading-specific needs such as price forecasting, congestion analysis, and dispatch optimisation.
• Lead requirements gathering sessions with trading teams to understand business goals and decision-making workflows.
• Develop, test, and calibrate models to deliver accurate and actionable insights for trading desks.
• Deliver tailored support and solutions for power trading customers and prospects: Work collaboratively with customers to ensure PLEXOS meets the needs of trading desks, from pre-trade analysis to post-trade optimisation.
• Analyse modelling outputs with customers to ensure they align with trader expectations and market observations, recommending adjustments to data or assumptions as needed.
• Deliver tailored presentations, technical demonstrations, and training sessions for trading-focused audiences.
• Partner with the sales team to engage with prospective trading customers, demonstrating how PLEXOS can address their specific challenges and enhance trading operations.
• Create Proof of Concept (PoC) studies that showcase the value of PLEXOS for pre-trade analysis, risk management, and portfolio optimisation.
• Customer Engagement and Model Delivery

Requirements

• Strong interpersonal presence and skills - demonstrated ability to build rapport
• Knowledge of PLEXOS or other mathematically based optimisation tools
• Knowledge of electricity markets and power trading
• 5-7 years’ experience in energy markets with a strong understanding of energy economics and market fundamentals, energy systems operation and/or engineering
• Experience in energy market supply and demand modelling via optimization/unit commitment (Preferably via commercial tools such as PLEXOS, BID3, Antaras, SDDP, PROMOD, etc)
• A tertiary degree in Electrical Engineering, Energy Economics, Operations Research or similar degree. Ideally the candidate should have specialisation in Electricity Systems (and/or Markets).
• Strong analytical skills
• Experience with Stack Modelling
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Proficient with corporate productivity and web presentation tools

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance