Strategy Senior Specialist -(2L)

Con Edison, a multibillion-dollar energy utility, is leading the clean energy transition in New York City and Westchester County. We are investing hundreds of millions of dollars to integrate distributed resources into our electric and gas systems, enable the deployment and adoption of bulk energy storage systems, and scale adoption of all distributed energy resource interconnection for our customers. This is a great role to demonstrate your ability to drive results, apply cross-disciplinary skills to the clean energy space, collaborate closely with diverse teams, meaningfully support customers, and gain firsthand experience with the clean energy transition.

The Strategy Senior Specialist for Energy Storage will be responsible for conducting financial and operational analyses, developing and owning analytics tools, incorporating market intelligence, and partnering with internal and external stakeholders to support successful deployment of storage. These efforts will allow the Company to identify emerging trends, monitor customer progress, pinpoint common bottlenecks and inform data-driven process improvements.

The Senior Specialist will be a motivated, strategic thinker who manages strategic initiatives in a broad and rapidly evolving business environment to implement the clean energy vision for the regulated utility. In addition, this position will focus on potential industry changes for an evolving power grid for New York and emerging energy storage technologies. Further, the Senior Specialist will support regulatory, technology, and data analytics work to ensure the grids capabilities can support the coming transition and New York States CLCPA mandates clean energy goals.

Required Education/Experience
- Bachelor's Degree and 3 years' work experience or
- Master's Degree and 2 years' work experience

Preferred Education/Experience
- Bachelor's Degree and 3 years' work experience in engineering, finance, economics or related field
- Master's Degree and 2 years' work experience in engineering, finance, economics or related field

Relevant Work Experience
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and distill data and information into business insights, and effectively communicate insights in meetings, presentations, and in writing, required.
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and comfortable working in a dynamic environment, required.
- Intellectual curiosity and enthusiasm for learning new skills, required.
- Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills, demonstrated by experience in facilitating cross-functional meetings, crafting and delivering presentations to internal and external stakeholders, including executive audiences, required.
- Ability to do both independent, rigorous research and also contribute to a fast-paced, cross-functional team environment is essential, required.
- Highly proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Projects), required.
- Knowledge of clean energy technologies and business models, preferred.
- Knowledge and experience in energy market modelling including capacity, energy, and ancillary services values and NY State incentive structures, preferred.
- Prior experience working with or for electric or gas utilities and understanding of business mode, preferred.
- Prior experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, or strategic finance role, preferred.

Licenses and Certifications
- Driver's License Required

Additional Physical Demands
- The selected candidate will be assigned a System Emergency Assignment (i.e., an emergency response role) and will be expected to work non-business hours during emergencies, which may include nights, weekends, and holidays.
- The selected candidate will be assigned a System Emergency Assignment (i.e., an emergency response role) and will be expected to work non-business hours during emergencies, which may include nights, weekends, and holidays.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent organizational skills
- Develops and delivers effective presentations
- Ability to influence internal and/or external constituents
- Instills commitment to organizational goals
- Well organized, detail oriented and flexible to handle multiple assignments
- Must be proficient in Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint, etc.