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.

We are looking for a Global Head of Energy Storage Research to join Wood Mackenzie’s Power & Renewables team. The Power & Renewables research team is a highly respected group of analysts producing market-leading research on the entire renewable energy value chain and power industry.

The Global Head of Energy Storage is responsible for setting our research agenda, driving high quality research and thought leadership, serving as the public face of Wood Mackenzie on storage industry issues, and driving our strategy in storage and our commercial success.  This includes identifying emerging themes that will impact customers and the industry and ensuring Wood Mackenzie is developing responsive research in its insight and data.  The Global Head of Storage is also responsible for influencing our product development and acquisitions strategy, identifying future growth opportunities, and contributing to consulting projects.

The Global Head of Energy Storage will work closely with the thought leadership team in our Power & Renewables practice as well as the storage analysts embedded within each of our regional teams.

About you and how you can excel in this role

Successful analyst in Wood Mackenzie’s Power & Renewables practice are thoughtful, intellectually curious, creative and comfortable presenting to public audiences and interacting with small and large groups of executives.

As our Global Head of Storage, you have already developed a reputation as an industry thought leader and have deep expertise on both the storage supply chain and the market dynamics and policies affecting the storage industry.  You have excellent verbal and written communication skills and can engage an audience and mentor your team members.

You have an analytical mindset and an eye for detail, which has been proven in your work experience to date, therefore you are comfortable taking complex, disparate ideas and distil them into simple, provocative concepts.

You are a natural self-starter who can work independently and generate the ideas you want to share by leveraging and expanding your industry network. You are comfortable disrupting your routine as you will be constantly looking to learn and provide in-depth analysis on industry trends and innovative market dynamics.

Finally, you are also effective at leading teams, mentoring the members of your team, and shaping them into future thought leaders and helping them grow in their careers.

Main Responsibilities

·     Set the storage research agenda – identifying all emerging themes that will impact customers, helping progress the energy transition, and ensuring our datasets and written research are of high quality, help us achieve commercial success, and most importantly answer customers most pressing issues.

·     Take commercial ownership of our storage services, ensuring our research aligns with customer needs, we maintain and build new sources of competitive advantage, and we identify and pursue growth opportunities

·     Establish an industry presence as an influential speaker and thinker and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders in the storage and larger power industry

·     Develop thought provoking research that challenges conventional wisdom and generates new insights for industry participants

·     Serve as a thought leader in helping to develop our regional and global narratives that bring together our research across power market supply/demand economics, regulatory dynamics, technology drivers, and company strategies

·     Identify the datasets and sources of data necessary to support our underlying analysis and ensure we have proper quality control in developing those datasets

·     Support consulting engagements related to Storage as needed

• 10 plus years experience in the power industry, with at least five of that focused on renewable energy.  The ideal candidate will have a mix of experience in research or consulting focused roles, as well as hands on experience working at a renewable developer, a company in the storage industry supply chain, or a large buyer of power
• Deep understanding of global storage industry trends, challenges, and opportunities and a good network of storage industry contacts
• Strong problem solving skills
• Prior experience successfully leading teams and helping grow your team members
• A passion to make a difference in the way we power our planet and to help accelerate progress in decarbonizing our economies
• An excellent writer and public speaker
• Strong analytical and numerical skills
• Entrepreneurial mind set
• Effective at working across a highly matrixed organization

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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