Location: Houston, Texas, United States
Work Type: On-site
Salary: Not disclosed
Experience Level: Mid-Senior Level
Application Deadline: Not specified
About NRG
NRG Energy is an energy and home services company focused on delivering smarter, cleaner, and more connected solutions for homes and businesses.
The company combines energy services, technology, customer solutions, and innovative business models to help customers power, protect, and intelligently manage their homes and businesses.
NRG promotes an inclusive workplace focused on collaboration, professional development, and long-term business performance.
The Opportunity
NRG is seeking a Manager, Energy Markets & Strategic Analysis to join its Growth & Partnerships organization in Houston, Texas.
This role is designed for an intellectually curious and analytically rigorous energy professional who can operate at the intersection of power markets, customer energy solutions, regulation, and corporate growth.
The successful candidate will bring strong technical expertise and business judgment to complex strategic opportunities involving data centers, distributed energy resources, virtual power plants, load management, generation development, and utility partnerships.
This is a highly analytical role requiring the ability to interpret energy-market rules, utility tariffs, regulatory decisions, financial models, and commercial opportunities, then translate those details into clear strategic recommendations.
What You'll Do
Energy Market & Regulatory Analysis
Conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis of energy market opportunities, regulatory developments, customer segments, and emerging energy business models.
Review and interpret utility tariffs, regulatory orders, RTO/ISO market rules, interconnection requirements, and procurement mechanisms.
Analyze market structures and regulatory developments to identify opportunities, constraints, risks, and potential commercial implications.
Financial & Economic Modeling
Build, audit, and improve complex financial, operational, and economic models.
Evaluate business opportunities, investments, partnerships, and new ventures using rigorous quantitative analysis.
Challenge assumptions, identify errors, and improve the analytical quality of detailed models.
Strategic Growth
Support high-priority growth opportunities across NRG's portfolio, including:
- Data centers
- Distributed energy resources
- Virtual power plants
- Load management solutions
- Generation development
- Utility partnerships
Identify key assumptions, risks, constraints, and value drivers across potential investments, partnerships, and new business opportunities.
Conduct competitive assessments, market intelligence, and benchmarking to support strategic decision-making.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Work with commercial, regulatory, finance, operations, development, and other internal teams to evaluate and advance strategic opportunities.
Translate complex technical information into clear business implications, risks, decision points, and recommended actions.
Serve as a trusted thought partner to internal stakeholders and help bridge organizational boundaries.
Executive Communication
Develop executive-ready presentations, business cases, and decision-support materials for senior leadership.
Communicate complex energy-market, regulatory, commercial, and financial concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Requirements
Core Qualifications
- 5 to 10+ years of experience in energy markets, utilities, retail energy, power development, consulting, trading, regulatory affairs, energy analytics, project finance, or a related field.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Economics, Finance, Mathematics, Energy Systems, Public Policy, or a related discipline.
- Deep knowledge of the North American energy industry.
- Strong understanding of wholesale power markets, utility business models, and customer energy solutions.
Technical Expertise
- Experience working with or analyzing ISOs/RTOs such as ERCOT, PJM, MISO, SPP, CAISO, and NYISO.
- Familiarity with utility tariffs and regulatory frameworks.
- Understanding of interconnection processes and transmission planning.
- Knowledge of capacity markets, demand response, DERs, virtual power plants, and power generation economics.
- Advanced Excel modeling capabilities.
- Ability to review, audit, and improve complex financial, operational, and market models.
Professional Strengths
- Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills.
- Ability to independently develop insights and test assumptions.
- Strong business judgment.
- Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities.
- Ability to connect technical details to practical business outcomes.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively across diverse teams and functions.
Mindset Fit
NRG is looking for someone who is comfortable operating in complex and ambiguous environments.
The ideal candidate is intellectually curious, challenges conventional thinking, looks beyond obvious solutions, and can identify pragmatic ways to move strategic opportunities forward.
Preferred Qualifications
An MBA, master's degree, or other advanced degree is preferred but not required.
Experience with wholesale electricity market structures, utility partnerships, energy development, customer energy solutions, or emerging energy business models will be particularly valuable.
Success in This Role
Success will involve the ability to:
- Quickly understand complex energy-market, tariff, regulatory, and commercial issues.
- Produce high-quality analytical work with limited supervision.
- Identify errors, assumptions, risks, and value drivers in complex models.
- Influence decisions through facts, relationships, credibility, and clear communication.
- Translate complicated industry dynamics into actionable business recommendations.
- Help NRG identify, evaluate, and execute growth opportunities that generate long-term enterprise value.
Why This Role Matters
The energy sector is undergoing a structural transformation driven by rising electricity demand, data centers, distributed energy resources, grid constraints, evolving wholesale markets, and changing customer expectations.
This role sits close to those developments.
By combining market intelligence, regulatory analysis, financial modeling, and strategic planning, the Manager will help NRG determine where emerging opportunities make commercial sense and how the company can turn them into scalable sources of growth.
Additional Information
NRG maintains a drug- and alcohol-free workplace. Subject to applicable law and collective bargaining agreements, employees may be subject to random, post-accident, and reasonable-suspicion drug and alcohol testing.
NRG is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants without regard to protected characteristics, including protected veteran status and disability.
The level, title, and/or salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience and skills.
NRG also permits candidates to use AI tools for interview preparation, research, practice, and resume refinement. However, candidates are expected to demonstrate their own thinking, experience, and communication during interviews and assessments. Using AI to generate or read answers in real time, complete assessments, or misrepresent qualifications is prohibited and may affect candidacy.