Senior Project Manager

Interested in building the energy market for the future? Do you want to shape the energy sector and support the shift to a low carbon economy?
MPA has been retained by a Norwegian energy tech firm that has developed and operates a local flexibility market platform. This is a platform where electricity local distribution companies (LDCs) buy so called “flexibility” from distributed energy resource owners/operators and electricity consumers in order to free up capacity on the grid. Our client provides its platform to electricity grid operators across Europe and in Ontario.
We are recruiting a Project Manager/Senior Project Manager who will coordinate and drive the set-up and operation of markets on the platform.
Responsibilities and duties:
Act as a single point of contact with the customer and project stakeholders, typically the LDC and local energy producers/consumers/aggregators, but also regulatory bodies, consultancies and other stakeholders.
Coordinate and drive projects from initiation to close, typically involving working with customers to define market design and project specific needs, onboarding buyers and sellers onto the market platform, obtaining feedback and addressing queries.
Coordinate technical development work that results from each project with the technical development team.
Support the sales and marketing team in customer dialogue.
Required qualifications and skills:
University degree
7 to 15 years of project management experience (More or less experienced candidates are welcome to apply.)
7 to 15 years of energy sector experience, preferably gained in a/an utility, system operator, energy trading environment, consultancy, LDC, regulatory body or tech start-up firm
Solid understanding of as many of the following areas as possible: electricity market design;
the changing role of electricity distribution and transmission networks;
energy trading (or commodities/securities trading);
software development.
Exceptional organisational skills
Ability to take initiative and drive processes forward
Interpersonal skills
Language skills besides fluency in English are a bonus (but not a must), particularly French
Location:Remote, but with the ability to meet clients in and around Toronto
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