Research Analyst

Company Description

Wood Mackenzie are the global research, analytics, and consultancy business powering the natural resources industry. For 50 years, we have been providing the quality data, analytics, and insights our customers rely on to inspire their decision making.

Our dedicated oil, gas & LNG, power & renewables, chemicals, metals & mining sector teams are located around the world and deliver a variety of projects based on our assessment and valuation of thousands of individual assets, companies, and economic indicators such as market supply, demand, and price trends.

We have over 1,900 employees in 30 locations, serving customers in nearly 80 countries. Together, we inspire and innovate the markets we serve - providing invaluable intelligence to help our customers overcome the toughest challenges, and make strategic decisions that will, ultimately, accelerate the world’s transition to a more sustainable future.

**Job Description**:
**Team Profile**

The Power and Renewables Research Team is a highly respected group of analysts producing market-leading research on the entire renewable energy value chain, covering onshore and offshore wind, solar PV, energy storage and power markets. Our cutting-edge knowledge of renewable supply chains, costs, deployments, and investment trends further strengthens Wood Mackenzie's offerings in the market during this rapidly changing time in the energy sector.

**Role Purpose**

We are looking for an Energy Storage Research Analyst to join Wood Mackenzie’s Power & Renewables team in Europe. The research analyst will join the growing energy storage team, helping track the market and build insights for our clients. The analyst will be responsible for market research on Energy Storage markets across the EMEA region. Responsibilities will include conducting original quantitative and qualitative research on the market, and delivering this analysis to clients through written reports, presentations, public speaking, addressing specific customer enquiries and through the delivery of bespoke consulting engagements. You will help with expanding our regional energy storage research using analytical or quantitative tools to better understand the role of grid-scale and distributed energy storage assets in EMEA. You will aggregate and summarise project level datasets, track energy storage market activity, develop financial models and forecast storage installation volumes and pricing trends.

You will build strong ties with key industry stakeholders and engage with clients and prospects in collaboration with our sales team. You will collaborate with other Wood Mackenzie analysts covering storage across the globe, as well as those covering power markets and other renewable technologies and commodities in the region to ensure our analysis is robust, integrated and thought-provoking.

**Qualifications**:
**Knowledge and Experience**

You have circa 2 years' experience working in energy storage, renewables or power markets industry in a commercially focused role. You are passionate about renewable energy, and come with strong knowledge of the sector and markets in the EMEA region. You have strong networking skills and can show that you can develop relationships with key industry stakeholders.

You have an analytical mindset and an eye for detail, can think out of the box and generate new ideas, and you are comfortable taking complex, disparate ideas and distilling them into simple, provocative concepts. You can communicate these ideas and concepts to audiences in an engaging way, both verbally and in writing.

You are a strong team player and a natural self-starter who can work independently. You are comfortable disrupting your routine as you will be constantly looking to learn and provide in-depth analysis on industry trends and innovative market dynamics.

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Additional Information

Wood Mackenzie is a place where we are committed to supporting our people to grow and thrive. We value different perspectives and aspire to create an inclusive environment which encourages diversity and fosters a sense of belonging.

Wood Mackenzie values everyone’s contribution and helps them reach their full potential while sustaining an organisational culture of health and well-being.

Our core values are:

- Inclusive - we succeed together
- Trusting - we choose to trust each other
- Customer committed - we put customers at the heart of our decisions
- Future Focused - we accelerate change
- Curious - we turn knowledge into action

We understand the importance of bringing your whole self to work and to achieving balance between work, family and other life commitments. We are open to considering flexible working arrangements to enable the greatest spectrum of talent to contribute to Wood Mackenzie's success.