Senior consultant, Nord Pool Services
Nord Pool is looking to recruit a senior consultant to join Nord Pool Services team.
Nord Pool Services team is responsible for several business areas:
- Nord Pool Consulting
- Nord Pool Academy
- Services to power exchanges in Europe (SPX business)
- Services to Transmission System Operators
- Other related services
Nord Pool Consulting is at the heart of new power market development in Europe and the rest of the world. Nord Pool Consulting is currently involved in a number of projects in different geographical regions providing support and services in a wide range of topics including electricity market design, development of regulations and rules, power exchange organization, capacity building and training on physical and financial electricity markets.
In order to strengthen our team, we are looking for someone with a strong wish to become an ambassador for the Nord Pool and European market model with an ambition to grow and share team’s unique competence in a wide span of topics. You will be part of Nord Pool’s multinational team delivering exciting assignments where you will have the chance to influence electricity market developments worldwide.
Main Tasks
- Act as expert advisor on wholesale electricity markets
- Act as a project manager in various projects
- Present electricity market topics for various audiences in projects, conferences, and trainings
- Cooperate with other Nord Pool departments and external partners during project preparation and execution stages
- Prepare project deliverables including but not limited to reports, presentation, market rules and training material
- Manage relations with sponsors, partners and clients
- Attend relevant international conferences with the aim to acquire new projects, maintain stakeholder relations and build new relationships
- Prepare technical and financial proposals for existing customers or new tenders, negotiate commercials terms
Qualifications & experience
To be successful in this position we believe the following skills, experiences and personal qualifications to be helpful:
- Senior expert mindset, meaning for example maturity to see the big-picture, think outside the box and provide advice based on experience.
- Excellent communication skills
- Leadership/project management skills
- Decision making
- Excellent English, both written and oral
- Proficiency in other languages is a benefit
- Presentation skills and being comfortable with presenting in front of audiences
Experience
- At least 7 years’ experience from power markets, including but not limited to operational experience, market design, market rules, regulatory issues.
- Management (project management) experience
- Thorough knowledge of the European Target Model design.
- Good knowledge of power markets outside of power exchanges domain, such as TSOs’ markets, regulatory aspects of wholesale and retail electricity markets as well as knowledge of other markets designs outside of Europe shall be seen as beneficial.
- Experience from report writing and making presentations
- Have degree in economics, business, engineering or equivalent.
Desired personal qualities:
- You are a team player!
- You are self-driven and eager to develop.
- You prefer to work in a structured way.
- You are curios and willing to learn
- High cultural awareness and willingness to travel, potentially longer periods at a time.
- Must identify with our corporate values: Together, with Integrity, towards Excellence.
Euronext Values
- We respect and value the people we work with
- We are unified through a common purpose
- We embrace diversity and strive for inclusion
- We value transparency, communicate honestly and share information openly
- We act with integrity in everything we do
- We don’t hide our mistakes, and we learn from them
- We act with a sense of urgency and decisiveness
- We are adaptable, responsive and embrace change
- We take smart risks
- We are positively driven to make a difference and challenge the status quo
- We focus on and encourage personal leadership
- We motivate each other with our ambition
- We deliver maximum value to our customers and stakeholders
- We take ownership and are accountable for the outcome
- We reward and celebrate performance
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or any other legally protected factor. We value the unique talents of all our people, who come from diverse backgrounds with different personal experiences and points of view and we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or any other legally protected factor. We value the unique talents of all our people, who come from diverse backgrounds with different personal experiences and points of view and we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect.
Additional Information
This job description is only describing the main activities within a certain role and is not exhaustive. It does not prevent to add more tasks, projects.