Connecting Talent to opportunity

Connecting Talent to opportunity

Strategy Analyst – Renewable Energy

Expired

Job Description:

Our client is a world leading renewable energy company. As a result of ongoing growth, they are currently seeking to recruit a Strategy Analyst to join their Strategy team.

The primary focus of the role will be to help develop and shape the global strategy of the company, developing evidence-based arguments and translating these into a high quality and concise dialogue.

The Strategy Analyst will work with senior leaders across the global business to provide insight, market intelligence, and understanding on the evolution of their markets.

The candidate should be able to demonstrate a sound ability to understand and breakdown problems, to identify potential solutions, to develop a clear plan to implement solutions, and to present these in a clear and concise manner to senior management.

 

Responsibilities 

  • Shape the strategic agenda and develop compelling arguments, translating these into a high-quality dialogue with the business and presentations for a Senior Executive audience
  • Provide leadership with an independent, integrated perspective of the internal and external marketplace of topics or projects you are responsible for, facilitating informed challenge and discussions
  • Ensure competitive strategy is at the heart of the company by implementing world-class standards for rigorous planning and sound decision-making
  • Support the business planning process
  • Monitor and track global news-flow around markets and competitors, drawing insights from trends, to ensure senior executives are kept informed of emerging opportunities and threats and those individuals that interact with our key customers have the information they need to deepen relationships
  • Provide insights for the procurement team as they build long-term relationships with suppliers to ensure the company continues to have access to the latest technologies at the lowest cost to deliver the most value to their projects
  • Ensure business cases for new business streams are consistent, accurate, and decisions on investment are made on the best information via a co-ordinated set of metrics, assumptions and outputs
  • Use exceptional business and communication skills to translate vision into action
  • Ensure company knowledge base of possible routes to market (both financial and structural) is informed and structured
  • Support internal activities to reduce costs in a structured and informed manner
  • Contribute to and improve internal tools (including financial and cost models)
  • Provide insight on due diligence and feasibility studies for new business activities & acquisition opportunities (focused on understanding the political, economic and commercial risks), with the ability to work on multiple projects at any one time

 

Requirements

 

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree from a recognised university

 

Experience

Required

  • 1-2 years’ experience
  • Experience of undertaking strategy analysis for or within companies, ideally as part of a strategy consulting business
  • Experience of developing business plans
  • Demonstrated ability to take the initiative and think creatively
  • Demonstrated ability to manage complex projects to tight timescales
  • Ability to grasp detail and to balance this with an understanding of the bigger picture

 

Preferred

  • Strategy and / or consulting background, ideally within the context of energy markets

 

Knowledge

Required:

  • Strategy tools and frameworks

Preferred:

  • Electricity market functionality and drivers
  • Effects of energy policy on business
  • Environmental, Governance and Social/ Sustainability market trends and frameworks

 

Skills

Required:

  • Strategic analysis
  • Research and analysis skills
  • Ability to present in writing and verbally at board-level events
  • Ability to communicate complex issues to non-specialists
  • Excel skills for financial modelling & forecasting
  • Team player with the intellectual rigor and attention to detail
  • Self-motivation and drive

Preferred:

  • A second language would be useful (French, German, Turkish, Swedish)

 

Salary: DOE

 

About us

Climate17 are recruitment specialists across Energy & Environmental markets. Our extensive experience, expert market knowledge and passion for what we do stand us apart.

 

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For more information or a confidential discussion please contact Tom Wolsey at Climate17.