Consulting, Associate Director – Power & Renewables

About the Role

Grade Level (for internal use): 11. The Team:
This position would be on the North American team of the Global Power and Renewables Consulting Practice in CI Consulting, part of S&P Global Commodity Insights division. The team advises a wide range of clients – including developers, utilities, governments, and investors – on power markets, renewable asset transactions, grid-edge technologies, and the growing interconnections between power and adjacent sectors like datacenters/AI, electrification, and energy storage.

The successful candidate will join a dynamic, fast-growing team of consultants and experts with diverse backgrounds in energy and the energy transition. The evolving consulting landscape fosters continuous skill development and exposure to a wide range of industries and senior stakeholders. Candidates should already bring a breadth of professional experience in the power sector.

• Lead project teams and manage the analysis and reporting required to deliver high-quality client engagements, while also independently completing work as needed.
• Apply deep energy industry expertise across markets to support consulting needs, including power supply-demand modeling, regulatory analysis, entry strategies, scenario planning, generation economics, reliability studies, and asset due diligence.
• Drive new consulting business by building client relationships, identifying opportunities, developing proposals, closing sales, and overseeing project delivery.
• Craft client proposals with clear, compelling communication and analytical creativity to align deliverables with client needs and maximize S&P Global’s value.
• Execute all analytical components necessary for successful client engagements.
• Communicate insights through well-structured reports, presentations, and direct client interactions.

• 7+ years of energy consulting, industry, or investment experience within power sector
• Prior management consulting experience
• Preferred Engineering, Science or Economics bachelor’s degree or another highly quantitative subject. Graduate degree preferred
• Good understanding of energy markets and underlying fundamentals, regulations, and policies; specific experience and/or knowledge of power markets, energy storage, and clean tech (solar, wind, energy efficiency, demand response, smart metering, fuel cells)
• Strong written and oral presentation skills
• Proficient public speaker, excellent verbal and written communication skills and excellent analytical and organizational skills
• Some travel is required average around 20% of time (but could occasionally be more)

• Experience maintaining and developing large models of complex systems
• Understanding of power dispatch and demand modelling, including understanding of third-party power dispatch software, such as Plexos and Aurora
• Advanced proficiency with programming languages (at least VBA; Python and SQL preferred)

This role is limited to persons with indefinite right to work in the United States.

At S&P Global Commodity Insights, our complete view of global energy and commodities markets enables our customers to make decisions with conviction and create long-term, sustainable value. We’re a trusted connector that brings together thought leaders, market participants, governments, and regulators to co-create solutions that lead to progress. Vital to navigating Energy Transition, S&P Global Commodity Insights’ coverage includes oil and gas, power, chemicals, metals, agriculture and shipping.

S&P Global Commodity Insights is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today.

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