VIE mission for the Green Power Structuring & Origination desk

About US (GEMS):

ENGIE Global Energy Management & Sales (GEMS) provides energy supply solutions and risk management services to support its clients through their decarbonization journey, while optimizing ENGIE’s assets and contributing to value creation.

ENGIE is a global reference in low-carbon energy and services with a leading energy management business, piloted by its entity "Global Energy Management & Sales" who built its savoir-faire managing the Group’s large and diverse asset portfolio over 20+ years.

3,600 employees around the world develop our solutions, through +20 international business platforms. We cover the full energy mix: renewable and thermal power, natural gas & LNG, biomass, environmental products. Our experts provide tailor made solutions based on a wide range of savoir-faire in energy management with a strong focus on decarbonation and decentralization.

Our 190,000 clients span the entire value chain: producers, asset developers, financial players, utilities, distributors and industrials. Our global reach and strong local presence enable us to offer these diverse clients tailor-made services and respond to rapid changes in mature or emerging markets alike.

Our 4 areas of expertise:

• Asset management

• Energy transition services

• Energy supply & global commodities

• Risk management & market access

At GEMS we encourage breakthrough results, team spirit, curiosity and innovation while preserving the right work/life balance for you.

More info on GEMS Hub (https://gems.engie.com) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/engie-global-energy-management-solutions).

Context:

Within GEMS, the Green Power Structuring & Origination desk is part of the new Business Platform (BP) Power Trading, Structuring & Origination (PTSO) and the Expertise Center (EC) Commercial.

The main missions of the Green Power Structuring & Origination desk are:

• Developing new renewable power solutions that will address the needs of GEMS upstream and downstream clients (power purchase agreements (PPAs)), and ENGIE’s in-house renewable asset developer teams in CWE.
• Developing lasting commercial relationships with renewable asset developers, expanding GEMS renewable asset portfolio under management to serve our downstream clients in their energy transition.
• Pricing PPAs for our upstream and downstream clients, coordinating set-up of new contracts, deal implementation and management of the renewable assets portfolio in close collaboration with sales, origination, legal, trading, risk and operations teams and IT.
• Contributing to the development/improvement of pricing methodologies and models in close collaboration with trading, risk, analysts, quant teams and IT.

Role:

Your mission will be to assist and support in the development of the renewable assets portfolio in France.

You will collaborate with the Green Originator and perform the following tasks:

• Contribute to expanding our portfolio of wind and PV offtake contracts in France.
• Identify and track business opportunities, keeping GEMS CRM up to date at all time (GEMforce).
• Make sure we reply on time to all pricing requests, preparing and ensuring follow-up of our offers (from asset description, costing request to offer writing)
• Contract follow-up from internal implementation in GEMS IT environment to external operational steps with French market players.
• Analyze the French renewable market to implement and improve our commercial strategy defined in close collaboration with GEMS management.
• Implement the communication around the desk’s green origination activities in France in collaboration with GEMS communication team (digital marketing, brochure update, organize presence in business fairs and/or conferences,…)

You will interact with Structurers, Traders, Analysts, Lawyers, Operations and Risk teams.

Hard skills:

• Must have:
  • o Comfortable with IT applications (Suite office), particularly Python & VBA
  • o Knowledge and enthusiasm for energy management and renewable energy issues

Soft skills:

• Must have:
  • o Good communication skills to be able to present a case briefly and logically
  • o Ability to establish effective networks both within and outside the organization
  • o Well organized and pro-active
  • o Good analytical skills to read and identify key topics within PPAs
  • o Innovative thinker and team player with excellent social skills and the ability to operate in a stressful and demanding environment

Education and professional background:

• Higher education, preferably a university degree in a quantitative area (finance, engineering, mathematics,…) or alternatively, an appropriate on-field experience

Languages:

• Fluent in French and English

Travels:

Located in Brussels but it involves travels in France and occasionally within European countries

If you meet these requirements, then you are the talent we are looking for. Do not waste time! Apply by attaching your updated CV, regardless your gender.

ENGIE Global Energy Management & Sales is committed to create a gender-neutral environment that unlocks the potential of everyone and provides equal employment opportunities for all individuals. All our positions are open to people with disabilities, please let your recruiter know if you need reasonable accommodations to be able to participate in the recruitment process, they will be happy to assist you. 

About ENGIE:

Our group is a global reference in low-carbon energy and services. Our purpose (“raison d’être”) is to act to accelerate the transition towards a carbon-neutral world, through reduced energy consumption and more environmentally-friendly solutions, reconciling economic performance with a positive impact on people and the planet. We rely on our key businesses (gas, power, renewable energy, services) to offer competitive solutions to our customers. With our 96,000 employees, our customers, partners and stakeholders, we are a community of Imaginative Builders, committed every day to more harmonious progress.