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About the Role

Join Wood Mackenzie’s Power & Renewables team as the Global Head of Large Load and Grid Transformation Research. This role involves setting the research agenda for data centers, electrification, and emerging power demand sources. Drive high-quality research, thought leadership, product initiatives, and commercial success, serving as the public face for Wood Mackenzie in these key growth areas. Collaborate with research analysts across technology, supply chain, and regional power teams, as well as sales, marketing, and product teams.

Responsibilities

Define and drive the large load research agenda, encompassing financial, technological, supply chain, and commercial dimensions of sectors like data centers, EV charging, BTM generation, microgrids, grid interconnection, load flexibility, and virtual power plant participation.
Anticipate and identify emerging themes that shape energy transformation, ensuring datasets and written research meet high quality standards, drive commercial success, and deliver clear, actionable answers to customers.
Develop thought-provoking research that challenges conventional wisdom and generates new insights for industry participants, interconnecting relevant research and data within the company.
Lead modeling efforts for topics such as cost and revenue modeling, and bankable long-term load forecasts, ensuring methodology standardization across regional teams.
Drive AI adoption across research teams to continuously improve accuracy, efficiency, and overall research quality.
Take commercial ownership of large load intelligence research within existing and new offerings, ensuring alignment with customer needs, maintaining and building competitive advantage, and identifying growth opportunities.
Collaborate closely with other research and product owners to ensure research aligns with customer needs, maintains competitive advantage, and identifies growth opportunities.
Serve as the main point of contact for large load research, driving, administering, and communicating changes and initiatives to sales, marketing, product, and leadership teams.
Collaborate with leadership on product strategy, resourcing, marketing priorities, and support analysis for commercial performance.
Establish an industry presence as an influential speaker and thinker, maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders in the data center industry.
Identify necessary datasets and data sources to support underlying analysis, ensuring proper quality control in their development.
Support consulting engagements related to large load sectors as needed.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in the power industry.
At least three years of experience focused on data centers.
Mix of experiences in research or consulting.
Hands-on experience working at a data center company, utility, or another entity close to large load project development and interconnection.
Deep understanding of data center industry trends, challenges, and opportunities.
Strong network of industry contacts.
Experience successfully executing commercial strategies across marketing, sales, or product teams.
Strong problem-solving skills.
AI-forward thinking.
Passion to make a difference in how we power our planet.
Excellent writer and public speaker.
Strong analytical and numerical skills.
Entrepreneurial mindset.
Effective at working across a highly matrixed organization.

Skills

Thoughtful
Intellectually curious
Creative
Comfortable presenting to public audiences
Comfortable interacting with small and large groups of executives
Reputation as an industry thought leader
Deep expertise on large load growth, particularly data center development, resource needs, and governing market and technology factors
Excellent verbal communication skills
Excellent written communication skills
Ability to engage an audience
Ability to mentor team members
Analytical mindset
Eye for detail
Ability to distill complex, disparate ideas into simple, provocative concepts
Effective at translating research content into compelling research products
Ability to influence changes and initiatives within sales, marketing, and product teams
Comfortable responding to requests from department leadership on product roadmaps, commercial success plans, and strategic initiatives

Experience Level

10+ years of experience in the power industry
At least three years focused on data centers

About the Company

Global leader in analytics, insights, and proprietary data across the entire energy and natural resources landscape.
For over 50 years, work has guided decisions of influential energy producers, utilities companies, financial institutions, and governments.
Redefined possibilities with Intelligence Connected by fusing unparalleled proprietary data with sharp analytical minds, supercharged by Synoptic AI.
Delivers a clear, interconnected view of the entire value chain.
Trusted team of 2,700 experts across 30 countries breaks silos and connects industries, markets, and regions globally.
Empowers customers to identify risk sooner, spot opportunities faster, and recalibrate strategy with confidence.
Values: Inclusive, Trusting, Customer committed, Future Focused, Curious.
Employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful.
Employees make choices according to what is best for the team.
Employees live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference.
Recognized as the #1 Top Workplace in the area.

Equal Opportunity

Committed to recruiting the best people regardless of their race, colour, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
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