Energy Modelling Lead

We are looking for a talented Energy Modelling Lead to help the team develop a more advanced modelling approach to assess how costs and risks might evolve in future years and how these changes will impact different market segments., As the Energy Modelling Lead, you will play a key role in building and maintaining the modelling approach, delivering commercial insights to drive sales strategy and improve pricing and valuations.

You will provide day to day leadership of energy cost modelling activities within the team whilst taking ownership of the energy system modelling solution used for pricing energy shaping and balancing costs and risks across all EDF market segments.

You'll be responsible for designing, developing, maintaining, and refining a complex model and process to effectively simulate key variables impacting the GB energy system. Additionally, you will take ownership of existing risk modelling tools and enhance the team's understanding of them.

Working collaboratively with other teams across WMS, you'll ensure consistency across assumptions and methodologies, identifying required modelling outcomes, and delivering the successful solutions for these.

We are looking for somebody with prior energy cost modelling experience and an excellent understanding of the GB energy markets and commercial structures.

You will be familiar with different statistical and data science techniques and have experience with cloud architectures, such as AWS & Snowflake. Expertise in at least one server-side language such as Python is essential to be successful in this role.

If you're proactive and customer centric with the ability to translate complex data and statistical modelling concepts to non-technical stakeholders, then we'd love to hear from you!

EDF Wholesale Market Services (WMS) is a leading provider of energy optimisation and trading services, one of Britain's biggest providers of energy flexibility services and at the centre of helping Britain achieve Net Zero. We work closely with other EDF Customers business units to provide route-to-market and hedging services, as well as with other EDF Group companies and other energy generation and grid flexibility customers, providing bespoke solutions. The team operates in a broad and diverse range of market segments including residential & business supply, nuclear, renewable & thermal generation and storage & flexible energy., At EDF, everyone's welcome. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone has a voice and where you feel confident being yourself. We're committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We'd like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.

We're a disability confident employer and we'll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need.

We'll value the difference you bring and offer opportunities for you to thrive and succeed.

Alongside a salary of circa £80,000 (DOE) and a market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits to support our people across all aspects of their lives.

Your rewards package includes a choice of benefits, such as electric vehicle leasing, enhanced parental leave, health insurance, discounts and employee pricing.

Flexible working means you can work from home (if you wish) and we'll provide a suite of IT equipment to ensure that you can work remotely comfortably and effectively. The team travel to our London office on a weekly basis.