Why This Role May Interest You

This role offers the opportunity to shape the commercial strategy and risk profile of one of North America's largest and fastest-growing renewable energy portfolios. Rather than focusing on a single asset, market, or transaction, you will help guide strategy across a diverse portfolio of wind, solar, and battery storage assets operating in multiple wholesale power markets.

If you enjoy turning market insights into business value, evaluating complex commercial opportunities, and helping organizations make informed strategic choices, you'll find meaningful work here. Your expertise will help guide investment decisions, optimize portfolio performance, manage market risk, and support ENGIE's continued growth in renewable energy across North America.

Evergreen Note

This evergreen posting is designed to connect with experienced commercial, market risk, portfolio optimization, energy trading, and renewable energy professionals interested in future opportunities with ENGIE in Houston, TX. By applying, you may be considered for current or future leadership opportunities supporting ENGIE's growing renewable energy portfolio and commercial strategy initiatives. If you are seeking immediate opportunities across ENGIE, we invite you to visit our ENGIE career page to explore current opportunities.

What You Can Expect

As a Director, Commercial & Market Risk, you will serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, helping evaluate market opportunities, commercial strategies, and portfolio risks across ENGIE's growing renewable energy business. You will help drive value creation, portfolio optimization, and risk-informed decision-making across a diverse portfolio of wind, solar, battery storage, and emerging energy technologies.

Partnering closely with teams across Energy Management, Asset Management, Origination, Trading, Finance, Development, and Commercial Operations, you will identify opportunities to enhance asset value, evaluate market exposures, and support strategies that balance risk and return throughout the investment lifecycle.

Success in this role requires strategic thinking, commercial acumen, market expertise, leadership capabilities, and the ability to influence stakeholders across a complex and evolving energy landscape.

What You Will Do

Commercial Strategy & Value Creation

• Lead commercial initiatives that maximize portfolio value across renewable energy assets, environmental products, energy market opportunities, and emerging technologies
• Partner with commercial, trading, origination, and asset management teams to identify and execute strategies that enhance revenue, improve asset performance, and support long-term business objectives
• Evaluate new business opportunities, commercial structures, and market innovations to support portfolio growth and value creation

Market Risk Management

• Establish and oversee market risk frameworks that identify, evaluate, monitor, and mitigate exposure across ENGIE's renewable energy portfolio
• Provide commercial and market risk guidance for investment decisions, development activities, commercial agreements, and portfolio optimization strategies
• Review market assumptions, pricing strategies, and risk mitigation approaches to support informed decision-making and balanced portfolio performance

Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement

• Lead, develop, and mentor high-performing teams by fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, continuous learning, and inclusion
• Build trusted relationships across ENGIE and with external stakeholders, serving as a strategic advisor who drives alignment and influences decision-making
• Communicate complex commercial and market insights to executive leadership in a clear, actionable, and business-focused manner

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Economics, Engineering, Environmental Studies, Business Administration, or a related field. Advanced degrees or relevant professional certifications are welcomed
• Minimum ten (10) years of experience within power markets, energy, renewable energy, energy trading, asset management, market risk, portfolio management, commercial strategy, or related disciplines
• Experience evaluating market opportunities, commercial risks, and value creation initiatives, with a demonstrated ability to develop and execute commercial strategies that support business growth, portfolio optimization, and risk-adjusted decision-making
• Knowledge of wholesale power markets, energy market fundamentals, market risk frameworks, hedging concepts, and revenue optimization strategies
• Experience working with renewable energy project structures, commercial agreements, and financial considerations that influence asset performance and investment outcomes
• Effective leadership, stakeholder engagement, and communication skills with the ability to influence decisions across diverse business functions
• Strong analytical capabilities and experience utilizing data, quantitative analysis, market intelligence, and digital tools to support strategic decision-making
• Passion for advancing renewable energy solutions and supporting the transition to a lower-carbon energy future

Salary Range will be included in the formal job posting once a specific level of opportunity is determined and posted.

At ENGIE, we take your well-being seriously. Our comprehensive benefits package includes options for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, employer-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, generous paid time off including wellness days, holidays and leave programs. We also help you plan for retirement by offering a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with a company match.  But that's not all – we're dedicated to the health and happiness of your entire family, offering supplemental benefits for full time employees that enhance emotional and physical well-being through all stages of life from family forming to caregiver benefits. Explore our benefits package to see how we can support you. Learn more.

Why ENGIE?

ENGIE North America isn’t just participating in the Zero-Carbon Transition, we’re leading it!  Join us as we develop energy that is renewable, efficient, and accessible to everyone.  

At ENGIE, our goal is to support, promote, and thrive on diversity, equity, and inclusion.  We do so for the benefit of our employees, customers, products and services, and community.  ENGIE is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace, and we are firmly committed to creating an equitable and inclusive environment for all employees.

We are committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.

If you need assistance with this application or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at ENGIENA-ENGIEHR@engie.com . This email address is reserved for individuals with disabilities in need of assistance and is not a means of inquiry regarding positions or application status.  

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