Head of Energy Markets & Trading

Yıldızlar Yatırım Holding; İzmit; On-site; TRY 500,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Yıldızlar Yatırım Holding in Kocaeli seeks an Energy Markets and Trading Unit Manager to lead market analysis, trading operations, and portfolio optimization across the group. You will coordinate DAM/IDM, pricing, risk analyses, regulatory compliance, and cross‑functional initiatives with internal teams and external market participants.

The ideal candidate holds a bachelor’s in engineering, fluent Turkish and English, 6+ years in energy markets, and strong leadership, communication, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline is required.
• Minimum 6 years of experience in energy markets, electricity trading, or related commercial energy activities.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Office, especially Excel; VBA is preferred.
• Experience with Python, R, SQL, Power BI, or similar analytical tools for data analysis and forecasting.
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• Excellent command of Turkish (written and spoken).
• Fluent in written and spoken English.
• Experienced in managing energy portfolio customers and cross‑functional coordination.
• Experienced in stakeholder, market participant, regulatory, and senior management relationships.
• Proven ability to lead teams and coordinate cross‑functional work.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and analyze electricity market activities including DAM, IDM, Balancing, settlement, and tariffs.
• Follow regulations and report regulatory impacts to management.
• Manage and analyze the energy portfolio, monitoring consumption, generation, positions, and costs.
• Perform energy pricing, cost, profitability, tariff, and risk analyses to support decisions.
• Coordinate with existing energy customers on forecasting, pricing, settlement, and imbalance processes.
• Monitor forecasted consumption and generation across domestic and international facilities.
• Identify trading and portfolio optimization opportunities through market monitoring.
• Develop and manage DAM/MCP, YEKDEM, forecasting using Python, R, Excel or similar tools.
• Monitor forecast accuracy and deviations and mitigate imbalance costs.
• Oversee EPİAŞ, EPDK, TEİAŞ, settlement, collateral, and related processes.
• Develop data-driven analytics, dashboards, and reporting for trading and portfolio management.
• Provide regular and ad-hoc market, portfolio, forecasting, cost, risk, and performance reports to senior management.
• Coordinate energy trading with group companies and internal departments.
• Follow developments in renewable certificates and green energy markets (I-REC, YEK-G, GO).
• Track carbon markets, CBAM, and European Green Deal impacts on costs and trading.

Skills

Energy markets

Portfolio management

Trading operations

Excel

VBA

Python

Power BI

SQL

R

Leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Tools

Excel

VBA

Python

R

SQL

Power BI

Job description

Yıldızlar Yatırım Holding in Kocaeli seeks an Energy Markets and Trading Unit Manager to lead market analysis, trading operations, and portfolio optimization across the group. You will coordinate DAM/IDM, pricing, risk analyses, regulatory compliance, and cross‑functional initiatives with internal teams and external market participants.

The ideal candidate holds a bachelor’s in engineering, fluent Turkish and English, 6+ years in energy markets, and strong leadership, communication, and