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Senior Quantitative Power Strategist – Load

A senior strategist on the US power and natural gas desk who values and bids on electricity supply obligations such as full-requirements and load-following contracts. The role blends physical-market knowledge with quantitative modelling.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Model demand, weather, shape, congestion and other risks in load contracts
Produce bid recommendations and scenario analyses for utility and commercial customers
Design hedges across power, gas, capacity and environmental products
Build tools for valuation, stress testing and performance attribution
Study structural changes in US power markets

What they ask for

Required

5+ years in US power trading, quant research, structuring or portfolio management
Hands-on pricing of load auctions or load-following portfolios
US wholesale power market structure
Python or similar
Statistics, optimisation, time series and Monte Carlo
Commercial judgement

Education: Bachelor's, master's or doctorate in a quantitative subject
Experience: 5+ years in US power markets
Languages and tools: Python
Markets: commodities

How to prepare

Learn how US wholesale power markets work (energy, congestion, capacity)
Build a load forecast with weather sensitivity and quantify its error
Run a Monte Carlo valuation of a fixed-price supply contract
Study hedging with power and gas forwards and options

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