Global Head of Energy Storage

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Job Description

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

Qualifications

• 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

Additional Information

In 2022, Verisk received Great Place to Work® Certification for our outstanding workplace culture for the sixth year in a row and second-time certification in the UK, Spain, and India. We’re also one of the 38 companies on the UK’s Best WorkplacesTM list and one of 18 companies on Spain’s Best WorkplacesTM list.

For over fifty years and through innovation, interpretation, and professional insight, Verisk has replaced uncertainty with precision to unlock opportunities that deliver significant and demonstrable impact. From our historic roots in risk assessment, we’ve grown to provide analytic insights that help transform industries focused on some of the world’s most critical areas. Today, the insurance industry relies on Verisk to be, and to make the world, more productive, resilient, and sustainable.

Verisk works in collaboration with our customers and at the intersection of people, data, and advanced technologies. Through proprietary platformed analytics, advanced modeling, and interpretation, we deliver immediate and sustained value to our customers and through them, to the individuals and societies they serve, with greater speed, precision, and scale.

We’re 9,000 people strong, committed to translating big data into big ideas. We help others see new possibilities and empower certainty into big decisions that impact individuals and societies. And we relentlessly and ethically pursue innovation to help move our customers, and the world, toward better tomorrows.
Everyone at Verisk—from our chief executive officer to our newest employee—is guided by The Verisk Way, to Be Remarkable, Add Value, and Innovate.
• Be Remarkable by doing something better each day in service to our customers and each other
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At Verisk you can build an exciting career with meaningful work; create positive and lasting impact on business; and find the support, coaching, and training you need to advance your career. We have received the Great Place to Work® Certification for the 7th consecutive year. We’ve been recognized by Forbes as a World’s Best Employer and a Best Employer for Women, testaments to our culture of engagement and the value we place on an inclusive and diverse workforce. Verisk’s Statement on Racial Equity and Diversity supports our commitment to these values and affecting positive and lasting change in the communities where we live and work.

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