Manager, Gas Markets

ICF International; Reston (VA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ICF International is seeking a Manager, Gas Markets to lead North American natural gas market analyses and client engagements. The role blends technical modeling with advisory delivery across basins, demand sectors, and LNG/pipeline considerations.

The Manager will mentor analysts, oversee GMM-driven forecasts, and collaborate with power, economics, and regulatory teams to provide decision-ready insights for public and private-sector clients.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of North American natural gas fundamentals and market analysis experience.
• Experience using a natural gas market model or similar forecasting framework.
• Experience leading analytical projects, coordinating contributors, and delivering client outputs.
• Advanced Excel and proficiency with AI tools for data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects or major workstreams and mentor analysts.
• Translate model results into client-ready insights on prices, demand, and storage.
• Develop assumptions and scenarios using the GMM and improve workflows.
• Present methods and results clearly to clients and internal stakeholders.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across energy and economics.
• Design analytical approaches, manage schedules, and ensure QA/QC.

Skills

Advanced Excel skills

AI tools

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Gas Market Model (GMM)

GPCM

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Title: Manager, Gas Markets

Location: Preferably in or around the Reston, VA area; however, open to remote candidates.

About the role

ICF is seeking a North American Natural Gas Markets subject matter expert (SME) and Manager to join the North American Natural Gas Markets team within the Energy Digital Infrastructure and Investment Line of Business. This role is for a hands-on natural gas market consultant and modeler who can connect rigorous quantitative analysis with clear, decision-ready advice for public- and private-sector clients.

The Manager will contribute directly to ICF's quarterly North American Natural Gas Base Case long-term outlook and consulting engagements using ICF's proprietary Gas Market Model (GMM) which is similar to the Gas Pipeline Competition Model (GPCM). Prior experience with GPCM is preferred. The successful candidate must bring strong regional experience with North American natural gas markets and understanding of market dynamics so they learn GMM quickly.

This is a balanced technical and client-facing role. The Manager will independently lead projects or major workstreams, guide analysts, communicate findings to clients, and collaborate with ICF colleagues across natural gas, power, economics, utilities, and investment advisory services.

Key responsibilities

• Serve as a gas regional market expert and hands-on natural gas market modeler, developing assumptions and scenarios and translating model results into insights on prices, basis, supply, demand, pipeline flows, capacity utilization, storage, and infrastructure needs.
• Learn and apply ICF's proprietary GMM to run, maintain, calibrate, troubleshoot, document, and quality-check North American natural gas market forecasts; contribute to model and workflow improvements.
• Lead a group of analysts that run and maintain GMM.
• Support production of ICF's quarterly North American Natural Gas Base Case and related subscription products.
• Analyze North American natural gas fundamentals across production basins and demand sectors, including residential and commercial load, industrial demand, power generation, LNG exports, pipeline exports, and storage activity.
• Evaluate pipeline and storage infrastructure, transportation constraints, regional basis formation, project timing, market need, utilization, reliability, and the effects of expansions or other market changes.
• Lead or manage consulting workstreams involving market outlooks, scenario and risk analysis, pipeline and storage assessments, gas utility planning and supply portfolios, asset valuation and due diligence, regulatory and policy analysis, LNG, and gas-to-power or large-load development.
• Design analytical approaches, manage schedules and budgets for assigned work, coordinate contributors, identify risks early, and deliver accurate reports, presentations, and quantitative models.
• Present methods, results, uncertainties, and strategic implications clearly to clients and internal stakeholders; respond to technical questions with sound market judgment.
• Mentor analysts and consultants through structured review, coaching, and knowledge transfer while remaining directly engaged in the technical work.
• Collaborate across ICF to integrate natural gas analysis with power-market modeling, infrastructure advisory, economics, regulatory, and other related capabilities.
• Contribute to proposals, scopes of work, client discussions, and thought leadership by helping shape technically sound approaches and communicating ICF's capabilities.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in economics, engineering, energy, statistics, mathematics, data science, public policy, finance, or a related quantitative field.
• 5+ years of relevant professional experience in North American natural gas fundamentals and market analysis, energy consulting, market research, a utility or a pipeline/midstream company, an upstream company, trading or commercial analytics, government, or a related field
• Demonstrated experience using a natural gas market model or comparable quantitative market-forecasting framework to evaluate supply, demand, transportation, storage, prices, basis, or infrastructure scenarios.
• Experience managing analytical projects or substantial workstreams, including defining tasks, coordinating contributors, monitoring budget and schedule, reviewing work, and delivering client-ready outputs.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and demonstrated ability to work with large, complex datasets; proficiency in AI tools.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree in a relevant quantitative, energy, economics, engineering, policy, or business discipline.
• Experience with nodal or network-based natural gas market modeling such as GPCM, supply-demand equilibrium modeling, production economics, pipeline flow and capacity analysis, or basis forecasting.
• Experience calibrating models to historical data, conducting backcasts, validating outputs, documenting assumptions, and implementing repeatable model QA/QC processes.
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