Energy Transition Strategy Consultant — Utilities

Sigma Earth; Union, Northern (NJ, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Sigma Earth in the United States is seeking experienced strategic consultants to help energy and utility clients across the value chain, from digital transformation to business strategy execution.

You will lead workshops, build roadmaps, perform market and grid analytics, and communicate insights to senior executives, regulators, vendors, and customers. This role offers prominent exposure and impact across major energy projects.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting strategy, business development, programme management, or energy market design.
• Ability to translate complex information into practical, decision-ready insights.
• Experience managing transformation programmes in utilities or energy sectors.

Responsibilities

• Work with energy and utility companies across the value chain in technical, strategic, business, or technology-focused roles.
• Support engagements related to strategy, business development, programme management, business architecture, investment planning, economic valuation, and energy market design.
• Analyse complex information and convert it into practical, decision-ready insights.
• Manage projects, stakeholders, and multiple priorities in dynamic consulting environments.
• Communicate effectively with senior stakeholders and influence executive-level decision-making.
• Stay updated on utility transformation, emerging energy technologies, and market changes.
• Lead and support strategic consulting assignments focused on digital transformation, innovation adoption, and business strategy execution for utilities.
• Work with senior client leaders to define vision, strategic goals, delivery plans, and operating models.
• Assess changing energy system requirements and build business cases for resilient, future-ready utility models.
• Research utility innovation, market trends, AI applications, data-led decision-making, and grid modernisation.
• Convert strategy into execution roadmaps, transformation plans, and capability-building initiatives.
• Design and facilitate workshops, stakeholder meetings, reports, and communications for regulators, customers, vendors, developers, and other stakeholders.
• Set up and manage transformation programmes covering scope, cost, schedule, resources, people, processes, technology, and data.
• Identify service delivery improvements to enhance quality, efficiency, and operational performance.
• Lead workstream planning, design, and delivery for energy technology and business solutions.
• Identify and resolve risks or issues affecting scope, cost, quality, timelines, and resources.
• Prepare project updates, stakeholder communications, delivery plans, and quality assurance processes.
• Develop and deliver energy system planning projects and technical solution architecture.
• Analyse and prioritise technology and product portfolios.
• Conduct power flow, cost-benefit, modelling, network modelling, and market programme design activities.
• Work with systems such as ADMS, DERMS, MMS, joint transmission-distribution operations, energy flexibility solutions, and distribution automation.
• Perform grid studies including short circuit analysis, hosting capacity, feeder load management, and time-series power flow using platforms from Siemens, Schneider, GE, Oracle, OSI, Hitachi, and similar providers.
• Extract, process, cleanse, migrate, and analyse grid models, metering data, energy pricing, weather data, and other utility datasets.
• Support systems implementation projects through data preparation, validation, migration, and quality enhancement.
• Model and forecast future energy scenarios using client data, industry forecasts, and benchmark models.
• Apply advanced analytics, machine learning, or AI techniques to generate deeper insights.
• Report progress on large-scale data initiatives and define data quality metrics aligned with utility data strategies.
• Develop go-to-market materials, case studies, and client-facing presentations for Energy Transition services.
• Prepare customised proposals for global power and utility clients, aligning scope, cost, schedule, and resources with client objectives.
• Evaluate pursuit opportunities based on financial, contractual, legal, cultural, and resourcing factors.
• Create thought leadership content and represent the practice at industry events on energy transition topics.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Data analytics

Strategic consulting

Tools

ADMS

DERMS

MMS

Siemens

Schneider Electric

GE

Oracle

OSI

Hitachi

Job description

Sigma Earth in the United States is seeking experienced strategic consultants to help energy and utility clients across the value chain, from digital transformation to business strategy execution.

You will lead workshops, build roadmaps, perform market and grid analytics, and communicate insights to senior executives, regulators, vendors, and customers. This role offers prominent exposure and impact across major energy projects.