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About ContourGlobal 

ContourGlobal, a KKR company, is an established Independent Power Producer (IPP) focused on developing, acquiring, and operating electricity generation and storage assets across Europe, North and South America, with a presence in Africa and Asia. The company currently manages 5.5 GW of installed capacity across multiple technologies and asset classes, with an additional 800 MW of renewables under construction and nearly 12.6 GW under development. 

ContourGlobal is accelerating the decarbonization of its portfolio and evolving into a predominantly renewable IPP, supported by long- term contracts and innovative PPAs coupled with energy management solutions that deliver value beyond market standards. As a symbol of its ongoing transformation and growth, the company recently unveiled a new brand identity, celebrating 20 years of history and embracing The Right Power Forward as its guiding purpose. 

Job Summary

As Commercial Analytics Associate, you will join our U.S. Commercial Analytics team! In this role, you will report to the Director Commercial Analytics and will have the opportunity to support the design, implementation, and management of ContourGlobal's commercial analytics function in the U.S., building data infrastructure and quantitative modeling tools to optimize energy trading, manage portfolio risk, and generate asset-level insights. Join us to drive the right power forward and make clean energy the natural choice for all!

Key Responsibilities:

• Enable Data-Driven Decisions
  • Deliver insight-driven recommendations to support trading, origination, and risk mitigation
  • Collaborate across Asset Management, M&A, and Business Development teams to embed analytics into key commercial workflows
  • Assist in managing consultants and advisors with the evaluation of scenario inputs and results.

• Develop Quantitative Models
  • Support development of advanced models for forecasting, pricing, risk management, and asset optimization
  • Assist in establishing scalable analytics processes, tools, and governance frameworks to support real-time and long-term commercial decision-making
  • Modeling of BESS, solar, gas-generating resources, as well as the overall regional portfolio
  • Support structuring of Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs), fuel procurement strategies, and market bidding decisions.
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Design & Manage Data Infrastructure and Analytics Function

• • Build and maintain a robust data architecture that integrates market, asset, trading, and financial data
  • Develop automated pipelines and storage solutions to support large-scale, real-time energy data
  • Ensure data quality, consistency, and accessibility across the commercial organization
  • Develop dashboards and reporting tools to enhance visibility into portfolio and asset performance.

Qualifications and Skills: 

Your profile is a natural match if you have:

• 5+ years of experience in commercial analytics, quantitative modeling, or data architecture within the energy, utilities, or commodity trading sectors
• Familiarity with U.S. power, gas, REC markets and evolving market changes
• Understanding operations and modeling for renewable (solar and BESS) and gas-fired technologies
• Expertise in programming and data manipulation (e.g., R, Python, SQL, MatLab or similar) and visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau or similar) for power applications
• Experience with power optimization and/or risk software (Promod, Plexos, cQuant or similar)
• Familiar with power portfolio risk metrics including GMaR, VaR and other related.
• Bachelor's degree required, Master's in a quantitative or business field preferred

Skills:

• Strong background in time-series forecasting, optimization, or machine learning
• Familiarity with energy modeling, trading, and risk management platforms and their integration with commercial operations and investment decisions
• Experience building dashboards and reports
• Strong skills for scenario modeling and ad hoc analysis
• Exposure to big data environments and modern data warehousing tools is a plus
• Expertise in scalable data infrastructure, including data pipelines, storage, cloud platforms, and governance frameworks, is a plus
• Knowledge of thermal or renewable power generation cycles.
• Experience troubleshooting or knowledge of industrial communication protocols (OPC, Modbus).
• Relocation assistance may be provided for the selected candidate.

Our Values

We is our greatest asset

We respect and protect the environment

We are doers, committed to doing things right

We act with integrity and transparency

We think and act like entrepreneurs

You can find here more about our Purpose, Mission and Values.

Working@CG: 

As a globally integrated team, we push boundaries, work collaboratively, and remain agile in the pursuit of excellence. With an entrepreneurial mindset, we encourage initiative and innovation. At ContourGlobal you are an employee, and you are also an owner. Our Employee Ownership Program allows our employee-owners to make a difference and drive the right power forward and make clean energy the natural choice for all! 

We foster a culture where individuals are empowered to succeed, contribute and shape the future of sustainable energy.

Cross-border collaboration shapes our way of working: our diverse workforce reflects the multicultural environment we embrace every day.

We offer a competitive compensation package: we believe in meritocracy and rewarding meaningful contributions.

We enjoy making the most of our shared spaces to foster teamwork and collaboration. At the same time, our flexible working policy allows us to prioritize results while supporting wellbeing and a healthy work-life balance.

Interested in joining our company?

We know that skills and experience come in different forms, and we value diverse perspectives. 

If you're excited about this role but you think you still need to learn some of the required skills, we'd still love to hear from you. You are much more than your CV, so come as you are and tell us who you aspire to become! The most important skills are collaboration, respect, trustworthiness and execution. So go ahead-apply, and let's contribute to the new energy transition together!

ContourGlobal provides equal employment opportunities and maintains a diverse workforce that reflects the rich environment of our society and the markets in which we operate.

ContourGlobal provides equal employment opportunities and maintains a diverse workforce that reflects the rich environment of our society and the markets in which we operate.