Senior Regulation & Market Design advisor Power

About ENGIE and Supply & Energy Management:

ENGIE, a global leader in low-carbon energy and services, relies on its Global Business Unit Supply & Energy Management (GBU S&EM) to provide reliable, sustainable, and affordable energy to all its customers. This strategic unit optimizes the Group’s and clients’ production assets and designs tailored energy solutions for our 200,000 professional clients and 15 million consumers.

The Global Business Unit Supply & Energy Management leverages ENGIE’s assets to deliver secure and sustainable energy to its B2B and B2C customers. It uses its expertise in energy management to provide decarbonized electricity 24/7.

Joining Supply & Energy Management means becoming part of a team of over 10,000 passionate experts spread across 20 countries, all united by a shared mission: shaping a greener and more efficient energy future. Together, we push the boundaries of innovation to deliver decarbonized energy 24/7. Join us and be part of those shaping the energy of tomorrow!

Context: 

• Market Analysis is an Expertise Center within S&EM and more in particular within the Operational Area Energy Management, with the mission to support ENGIE in succeeding the energy transition, thanks to advanced knowledge​
• Market Analysis delivers a broad spectrum of services related to energy markets including price forecasting, supply and demand analysis, weather and climate analysis, asset valuation, strategic studies, environmental economics, and importantly: Regulation & Market Design
• Market Analysis expertise covers power and all gases from the short-term up to the long-term horizon for all core markets of ENGIE. It aims to develop state of the art methodologies to anticipate the challenges of the energy transition
• The Regulation & Market Design team, within the Expertise Center Market Analysis, manages the European regulation of both electricity and gas markets impacting S&EM activities and, in particular, the asset portfolio optimization and the trading activities (Operational Area Energy Management). The team is responsible for establishing the S&EM positions for these activities in collaboration with internal stakeholders, champion these internally and externally, and persuade external stakeholders in order to promote optimal market functioning.
• The electricity system has been drastically changing over the last years: more and more intermittent renewable generation, new market players, evolving role of system operators… At the same time, the European electricity markets are integrating at a fast pace, driven by European legislative initiatives. Achieving a truly European, efficient electricity market is a real challenge and covers the correct implementation of Market Network Codes, existing and new electricity regulations and directives. The energy crisis of a few years ago also illustrated the importance of having a sound electricity market design, which will allow market players to deliver the renewable and low-carbon investments needed to achieve the decarbonization targets and consumers to benefit from these investments.

Role:

As Senior Regulation & Market design (RMD) advisor for Power, you are active over the entire regulatory chain: Analyze new or updated regulatory texts; propose positions as well as lobby plans towards the management of S&EM and Operational Area Energy Management and the wider ENGIE Regulatory Community. You effectively implement agreed lobby actions (e.g. via participation in relevant working groups/associations and meetings with stakeholders). You cover upcoming (decided or considered) changes to the electricity market design; compliance to the current market rules is not part of the RMD team, but situated elsewhere in the organization.

The RMD team is a small team, working with trust, collaboration and team spirit. Each advisor is working in full transparency and close cooperation with other members, but also with other regulatory teams across the ENGIE organization and the Regulation Coordinator at S&EM level. Flexibility is a key asset to quickly onboard new elements or priorities and support fellow team members in ongoing files.

Main activities:

• Monitor the evolution of European regulatory initiatives in the electricity sector and the national implementations
• Analyze the upcoming modifications/updates of the regulatory framework impacting S&EM energy management activities and ensure relevant teams are aware of upcoming regulatory evolutions;
• Establish, write, and communicate, in coordination with relevant teams and following relevant governance process, the S&EM energy management positions (various formats: slides, position papers, answers to consultations, …) on key regulatory topics;
• Participate in relevant stakeholder forums/associations to defend the official positions and report (written) on those participation activities;
• Communicate (written and oral) key topics externally, pro-actively or in response to consultations, sometimes under tight time constraints;
• Represent and advocate the interests and positions of ENGIE with various stakeholders with regard to electricity markets matters (security of supply, large infrastructures in generation, transmission and storage, improvement of power market functioning and market design. The main stakeholders in this context are TSOs and NRAs ;
• Ensure a constructive cooperation and collaboration with the relevant regulatory teams within ENGIE

Hard skills:

• In depth understanding of power sector, European electricity markets (stakeholders, roles and responsibilities) and electricity systems (including production, transmission, distribution, retail, wholesale, …)
• In depth understanding of the key technical concepts around power optimization, power plant and transmission system operations
• Eagerness and capacities to acquire missing knowledge, regarding both the organization of the European energy markets and the technical concepts covered by the team scope

Soft skills:

• Strong analytical and synthesis skills, “clairvoyance”, able to make links between different files
• Clear and effective communication both written and verbal; ability to explain and convey messages about complex issues; ability to work in multi-cultural environment. Ability of writing up position papers whereby a position adopted by the company is thoroughly underpinned
• Strong networking skills (internally and externally), ability to maintain long-term relations and to actively represent ENGIE
• Reactivity, creativity, initiative, autonomy, ability to cope with tight deadlines, team spirit
• Solution-oriented and positive mindset

Education and professional background: 

• Master in Engineering; Master in business or economics
• Experience in the energy sector for a few years, with a focus on electricity wholesale markets

Languages:

• Fluent in English
• Fluent in French, Dutch and/or German is recommended but not strictly necessary

Travels:

Occasional travel

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 Supply & Energy Management 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.