Mgr Commercial Pricing & Analytics

Power Price Forecasting:

• Lead and manage the team responsible for forecasting wholesale power prices.
• Evaluate effectiveness of pricing strategies and modifies pricing structures as needed.

Wholesale Power Strategy:

• Collaborate with the Wholesale Power Strategy team to provide pricing and market analytics that drive strategic initiatives.
• Analyze short- and long-term transactions, including Power Purchase Agreements evaluations.
• Provide strategic insights to inform decision-making across various time horizons.

QSE & ERCOT Operations:

• Official representative of the QSE (Qualified Scheduling Entity) to ERCOT.
• Serve as the SME on ERCOT protocols and QSE operations, ensuring compliance and operational efficiency.
• Participates in the ERCOT stakeholder process. May hold voting positions on one or more ERCOT Stakeholder Committees representing the interests of CPS Energy.

DA/RT Market Operations:

• Provide support for Day-Ahead and Real-Time market operations to ensure data and data analysis are sufficient to effectively guide front office strategies and decisions.
• Advises on transmission impacts to power generation dispatch.
• Applies expertise and understanding of power plant operational parameters to development of offer curves and forecast models.
• Recommends business plan metrics, strategies and initiatives for Energy Supply and Market Operations business area (ESMO) and monitors and reports on progress of such.
• Recommends strategies that improve the operation in the ERCOT Market while minimizing risk to the costs incurred by the CPS Energy retail customers.
• Reviews financial results of Day Ahead and Real Time Operations to recommend modifications in front office strategies where appropriate.
• Identifies key performance indicators for day ahead, real time.
• Liaison between Front Office and Settlements (Back Office) to ensure financial results meet expectations, identify improvements needs and implement strategy adjustments.
• Identifies and implements systems and processes that improve the accuracy and timeliness of information that impacts generation dispatch including offer curves, outage scheduling and unit characteristics.
• Collaborates with Day Ahead/Real Time and the Enterprise Risk Management function to develop and implement appropriate controls regarding front office strategies.
• Collaborates with Enterprise Risk to ensure procedures governing power transactions provide proper balance of internal controls and needed flexibility to respond to changing market conditions.
• Develop and maintain reserve margin forecasts that include recommendation regarding capacity available for wholesale transactions.

ESMO & Analytics:

• Work with the broader Energy Supply and Market Operations team to ensure alignment on key market trends and operational goals.
• Collaborate with Supply-Side and Demand-Side Analytics teams, offering analytical support across various initiatives.
• Mentoring and Talent Development through effective sharing of ideas, knowledge, or experience by means of mentoring, training, and other collaboration.

Other duties as assigned.