Market Analyst

Overview

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.

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.

• Support investment decisions by assessing program potential and risks and influencing strategy and program design to ensure results are measurable.
• Partner with the research and evaluation team to improve market knowledge and related modeling and forecasting.
• Provide analytical leadership and curiosity to advance program success.
• Demonstrate strong leadership and communications skills; develop relationships with external stakeholders and present information across disciplines.
• Collaborate with the Principal Analyst to ensure defensible reporting and documentation of assumptions for bi-annual portfolio and funder-level reporting for regulatory purposes.
• Translating modeling methodologies for Power Plan applications and relevant measures in accordance with NEEA’s portfolio.

• Gather and organize data from various sources, identify data needs, and manage threats to data quality to translate program strategy.
• Derive insights from market trends and synthesize disparate data sources to build energy savings potential; perform risk and opportunity sensitivity analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and related assessments.
• Construct new, defensible models with limited supervision, modify existing models, implement improvements, and manage data updates.

• Collaborate with program team peers to create a continuous dialogue between analysis and decision-making.
• Develop analytical insights to inform decisions that improve program design and results.
• Identify and communicate business impact of risks and opportunities; create action plans to manage risks and alternatives.

• Support the development and application of analytic best practices across the Market Planning and Analysis team.
• Help document processes, improve consistency, and communicate analytic value to stakeholders; contribute to onboarding materials and training as needed.

• Share and translate analytic findings to diverse audiences; facilitate conversations with initiative teams, advisory committees, funders, and industry partners.
• Prepare documentation of analysis inputs, assumptions, and outputs; present to external stakeholders and regulators as needed.

A top performer can work with complex data to synthesize information and develop forecasts, risk assessments, and cost-benefit analyses. They contribute to building and refining analytic models, maintain data accuracy and integrity, translate analytic findings into clear insights, and contribute to best practices for data analysis and reporting across the team.