Senior Analyst, Wind Supply Chain and Technology

  • Full-time
  • Verisk Business: Wood Mackenzie

Company Description

Wood Mackenzie are the global research, analytics, and consultancy business powering the natural resources industry. For 50 years, we have been providing the quality data, analytics, and insights our customers rely on to inspire their decision making.

Our dedicated oil, gas & LNG, power & renewables, chemicals, metals & mining sector teams are located around the world and deliver a variety of projects based on our assessment and valuation of thousands of individual assets, companies, and economic indicators such as market supply, demand, and price trends.

We have over 1,900 employees in 30 locations, serving customers in nearly 80 countries. Together, we inspire and innovate the markets we serve – providing invaluable intelligence to help our customers overcome the toughest challenges, and make strategic decisions that will, ultimately, accelerate the world’s transition to a more sustainable future.

Job Description

Wood Mackenzie Power and Renewables provides integrated subscription, research and advisory services to inform and support our client’s commercial and strategic decisions in the complex and rapidly changing electric power industry.

Combining our deep knowledge of solar, wind, storage, and grid technologies, with our global power and fuels modeling and analytical capabilities, Wood Mackenzie can provide data and insight spanning supply chain, technology costs, policy and market issues, fundamentals-based outlooks, price forecasting, asset valuation, and commodity market issues.

Team Profile

This role will serve as part of Wood Mackenzie’s Power and Renewables team, with a focus on wind supply chain, systems and technology. This is an excellent opportunity to join a growing team and make a major contribution to the energy transition at a global scale. Our supply chain and technology team provides market intelligence and analysis to asset owners, developers, turbine OEMs, Independent Service Providers and renewable industry professionals regarding the changing landscape of the global wind supply chain and wind technology trends. This research encompasses market assessments, component and system cost benchmarking and forecasting, strategy identification, supply chain support and competitive analysis.

Role Purpose

You will be responsible for research and analysis in our growing Wind practice, serving as a subject matter expert on wind supply chain and technology.

You will conduct original quantitative and qualitative market research and deliver analysis through written reports, consulting, client inquiries, and speaking engagements. As a part of Wood Mackenzie’s wind team, you will serve clients who are responsible for the success of their firm’s supply chain strategies, competitive market positioning, system cost modelling, technology roadmaps and deployment strategies.

Main Responsibilities

Research, Analysis and Report writing:

  • Conduct primary and secondary research on global wind supply chain price trends, technologies, business models, market developments and financial impacts
  • Lead and contribute to the research publications including but not limited to: Wind Turbine Technology Trends, Wind Turbine Supply Chain Trends, Wind Turbine OEMs Market Shares
  • Ensure all deliverables are executed and delivered in a timely fashion to a high standard

Data Analysis:

  • Monitor and maintain relevant data for the supply and technology segments, including costs, technology trends, supply chain and the competitive landscape
  • Develop, update and maintain global wind supply chain databases
  • Update and maintain wind turbine technology databases
  • Develop supply chain costing models and deduce the capex for wind assets
  • Ensure the data quality and accuracy is continuously improved 

Networking and Industry collaboration 

  • Establish and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders in the industry and clients
  • Establish an industry presence as an influential speaker and thinker; build relationships with senior industry professionals –wind project developers and EPCs, turbine OEMs, component suppliers and raw material suppliers as well as with the journalists who cover the sector; and participate in vendor briefings and press inquiries as necessary

Consulting engagement

  • Support and lead specific consulting assignments on wind supply chain and technology

Business Development

  • Work directly with sales and marketing via internal and external communications to actively help generate new sales, build larger programs for existing clients, and effectively market completed research
  • Present at WoodMac and industry-sponsored events, and moderate client webinars

Qualifications

You come with experience from a wind company and have a deep understanding of renewable energy technologies, with knowledge in the following areas:

  • Turbine OEMs supply chain strategies
  • Component and raw material suppliers
  • Competitive differentiators for supply chain companies
  • Global and Regional Wind market dynamics
  • Drivers and barriers to various innovative supply chain models
  • The emerging role of digitalization

You have knowledge and experience in at least one of the following areas:

  • Wind turbine technology including the manufacturing, reliability and technology differentiators of blades, major powertrain components, towers, bearings, turbine controls etc.
  • Wind turbine supply chain trends, including the global supply landscape, impact of material prices, labor costs and commercial structures for turbine supply.

You have excellent analytical skills and an eye for detail including knowledge of base engineering calculations such as AEP (Annual Energy Production), input torque, power coefficients, tip speed etc. experience of IRR modelling, market size modelling, system cost and price modelling and revenue & profitability forecasting will also be beneficial.

You’re commercially aware,  have strong excel skills and excellent written and verbal communication skills

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Additional Information

WoodMackenzie is an equal opportunities employer.

We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran’s status, age or disability.

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