Market Analyst

The Market Analyst serves as a key, cross-functional member on program teams delivering quantitative decision support, generating market insights through data analysis, and contributing to program design and efficiency analysis. The incumbent will learn new markets and translate strategic objectives from program teams to a quantitative business forecast. Communication and project management are critical to success in this role to ensure teams stay aligned and informed with respect to program analytics.

The Market Analyst will support investment decisions by assessing the program potential and risks and influencing strategy and program design to ensure the results are measurable. The Market Analyst will partner with the research and evaluation team to improve market knowledge and related modeling and forecasting. Analytical leadership and curiosity are pivotal strengths of the Market Analyst to advance program success.

Additionally, this person will demonstrate strong leadership and communications skills. Developing relationships with important external stakeholders and the ability to present information and collaborate across many disciplines is critical to success in the role. They will partner with the Principal Analyst to ensure defensible reporting and documentation of assumptions for bi-annual portfolio and funder-level reporting for regulatory reporting purposes.

This position is based in the Portland, OR metro area, with a hybrid work location.
We are looking for candidates who can meet the requirement of working at least 2 days per week onsite at NEEA’s office location. Finalists must have eligibility to work in the US as NEEA is not able to provide VISA sponsorship or have remote work outside of the US.

Salary range: $90,000 - $100,000 - exempt

• Salary is based on the applicants Experience, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities.

Modeling and Analysis

• Supporting the translation of program strategy by gathering and organizing data from various sources, identifying and managing data collection needs and threats to data quality.
• Deriving insights from market trends and synthesizing disparate data sources to build energy savings potential. Providing risk and opportunity sensitivity analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and related analysis.
• Working with limited supervision to construct new, defensible models, making modifications to existing models, suggesting and implementing model improvements and managing data updates.
• Translating modeling methodologies of the Northwest Power and Conservation Council for Power Plan applications and relevant measures in accordance with NEEA’s portfolio.

Program Influence and Functional Leadership

• Collaborating and proactively communicating with program team peers to build a continuous dialog between analysis and program decision-making.
• Developing and using analytical insights to influence program teams to inform decisions that improve program design and results.
• Identifying and communicating the business impact of risks and opportunities to help inform both program and organizational decisions and needs. And creating action plans to manage risks and alternatives.

Organizational Development

• Supporting the development and application of analytic best practices across the Market Planning and Analysis team, helping to document processes, improve consistency and communicate analytic value to internal and external stakeholders.
• Contributing to onboarding materials and participating in training activities as needed.

Stakeholder Relations and External Reporting

• Sharing and translating analytic findings to a variety of audiences. Facilitating productive conversations with initiative teams, advisory committees, funders and other industry partners to address, communicate and resolve key business matters.
• Preparing documentation of analysis inputs, assumptions and outputs, and presenting regularly to external stakeholders and regulators on the Cost Effectiveness Advisory Committee.

A top performer in this role is able to work with complex data to synthesize information and develop forecasts, risk assessments, and cost-benefit analysis. They…