Costing and Power Supply Specialist

Job description

**This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Costing and Power Supply Specialist based in the United States.** This is an opportunity to play a key role in retail power costing and commercial decision-making across U.S. deregulated energy markets. You will help develop competitive costing strategies while identifying, modeling, and mitigating market and cost-related exposures. The role combines quantitative analysis, energy-market expertise, data management, and commercial insight in a highly collaborative environment. You will work closely with Pricing, Sales, Operations, Finance, Risk, Regulatory, and Compliance teams to improve pricing accuracy and business outcomes. A major focus will be developing and automating costing methodologies, analyzing ISO settlements, and supporting pricing and gross-margin models. You will also contribute to new product initiatives, market competitiveness analysis, customer discussions, and sales enablement. This role is ideal for a technically strong energy professional who enjoys solving complex problems and turning market data into actionable commercial insights. ### Accountabilities: - Manage and continuously improve the retail costing process across assigned U.S. deregulated power markets, with a focus on competitiveness, business growth, and exposure management. - Analyze and model cost components, market risks, premiums, and other factors that influence retail power pricing. - Develop, automate, and maintain reporting for cost components, pricing strategies, and methodologies supporting pricing and gross-margin models. - Track, optimize, and explain P&L performance associated with non-tradable cost components. - Manage regulatory rate-change processes and monitor state and market rules that affect retail costing. - Partner with regulatory and compliance teams to ensure costing approaches remain aligned with applicable requirements. - Support the costing and commercial development of new retail energy products and initiatives. - Act as a subject-matter expert for Pricing, Operations, Sales, and other functional teams on ISO-level component costing and settlement-related questions. - Obtain appropriate quarterly validation and sign-off for costing methodologies and pricing assumptions. - Build and maintain information resources, data libraries, and supporting data infrastructure. - Serve as a key point of contact for Sales and other internal stakeholders on costing-related questions and commercial analysis. - Track and analyze competitiveness feedback and translate market insights into actionable recommendations. - Develop market collateral and supporting materials for Sales teams, channel partners, and customers. - Participate in customer meetings, presentations, and seminars when requested. - Expand knowledge across deregulated energy markets in North America and apply market insights to improve costing and commercial performance. - Lead or contribute to process improvements, cross-functional initiatives, and other responsibilities as business needs evolve. ## Requirements - Mid-level professional experience in a substantially similar role involving retail power costing, energy pricing, power markets, or a related quantitative commercial function. - Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Statistics, Quantitative Finance, Engineering, or a related discipline. - Strong understanding of retail power pricing processes, including pricing model development and cost-component analysis. - Knowledge of deregulated electricity market cost structures, including capacity, transmission, ancillary services, losses, and related market components. - Prior experience working with ISO settlements data and interpreting complex market or settlement information. - Strong analytical capabilities, with the ability to collect, query, organize, evaluate, and interpret complex datasets and draw logical conclusions. - Advanced proficiency in **Excel, VBA, and SQL**, with the ability to automate analysis and reporting where appropriate. - Strong commercial and business acumen, with an understanding of how costing decisions influence competitiveness, profitability, and growth. - Ability to work independently, take ownership of projects, and lead process improvements with limited supervision. - Highly organized, resourceful, self-motivated, and comfortable managing multiple priorities in a dynamic environment. - Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders at all organizational levels. - Ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary teams, including Sales, Pricing, Operations, Finance, Risk, Regulatory, and Compliance. - Strong interest in continuous learning and developing expertise across North American deregulated energy markets. - Ability to influence stakeholders, communicate technical findings clearly, and translate quantitative analysis into practical commercial recommendations. ## Benefits - **Full-time hybrid work model** combining office and remote working. - **Location:** Houston, Texas, United States. - Opportunity to work in a technically sophisticated retail power and energy-market environment. - Exposure to deregulated electricity markets and a broad range of commercial, operational, regulatory, and risk functions. - Opportunity to contribute to pricing strategy, product development, process improvement, and commercial growth initiatives. - Collaborative, multidisciplinary working environment with interaction across Sales, Operations, Finance, Risk, Pricing, Regulatory, and Compliance. - Generous paid parental leave. - Retirement benefits. - Commitment to an inclusive and diverse workplace. - Reasonable accommodations available for qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the recruitment and employment process. - **Travel:** Negligible travel expected. - **Relocation assistance:** Not available for this position. - Employment may be subject to applicable local policies, which can include pre-employment screening, medical review, and background checks depending on the role.