Manager, Short-Term Power

Element Six; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 128,000 - 173,000; Full time

Job summary

Element Six partnered with a specialist wholesale power provider to add a Manager to their commercial team in Denver or Boulder, CO. The role focuses on originating short-term energy and capacity opportunities across WECC and SPP, building a strong network of counterparties and consultants, and owning inbound and outbound RFP processes.

You'll structure deals across physical and financial power, capacity, and RECs, and develop strategies to expand opportunities into new regions.

Qualifications

• 3–7 years of relevant experience across Power and Energy working on RFPs.

Responsibilities

• Originate short-term energy and capacity opportunities across the West (WECC) and SPP.
• Build and maintain a network of counterparties, brokers, and consultants that generates consistent deal flow.
• Evaluate and respond to inbound short-term RFPs, and build the framework for sorting them into trading, short-term or long-term commercial opportunities.
• Structure deals across physical and financial power, capacity, transmission, ancillaries and RECs.
• Develop the strategy to expand short-term RFP opportunities across new regions and markets.
• Own the customer relationship after signing, covering renewals, billing resolution and upselling.
• Coordinate with trading, credit, scheduling and legal to get new load priced, risk-managed and registered.
• Produce term sheets, PPAs and Investment Committee memos, and report pipeline and margin performance to leadership.

Skills

Power market experience

RFP ownership

Networking with counterparties

Job description

Role: Manager, Short-Term Power and Capacity

Industry: Wholesale power supply

Location: Denver or Boulder, Colorado

Comp: $150,000 base, annual performance bonus

Element Six is partnering with a specialist wholesale power provider to add a manager to their commercial team. This is a unique opportunity for someone with trading experience looking to move into a more commercial operations role and spend more time with counterparties.

Reasons to apply:

• The seat. It sits between the trading desk and the long-term commercial team, focused on supply deals inside three years. If you have built a trading foundation and now want more focus overseeing the entire commercial cycle.
• End-to-end RFP ownership. From initial sourcing, structuring and management through to the commercial relationship once the deal is signed.
• The demand is already there. You start by handling inbound flow. Growth is in outbound work and opportunities that aren't reaching the business because those conversations aren't happening.
• Significant growth. No one on the team is focusing on this, so the first year is as much about building it as executing within it.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

• Originate short-term energy and capacity opportunities across the West (WECC) and SPP.
• Build and maintain a network of counterparties, brokers, and consultants that generates consistent deal flow.
• Evaluate and respond to inbound short-term RFPs, and build the framework for sorting them into trading, short-term or long-term commercial opportunities.
• Structure deals across physical and financial power, capacity, transmission, ancillaries and RECs.
• Develop the strategy to expand short-term RFP opportunities across new regions and markets
• Own the customer relationship after signing, covering renewals, billing resolution and upselling.
• Coordinate with trading, credit, scheduling and legal to get new load priced, risk-managed and registered.
• Produce term sheets, PPAs and Investment Committee memos, and report pipeline and margin performance to leadership.

Requirements:

• 3–7 years of relevant experience across Power and Energy working on RFPs
• A combination of trading/commercial experience ideally at a Trading house/ IPP or Coop
• Comfort with basis, congestion, and weather-driven load shape across markets.
• Preference for the relationship side and comfortable presenting at conferences and in front of partners.
• Existing relationships in WECC/CAISO/SPP are a real advantage.
• Self-starting and proactive

This probably isn’t for you

• If you want to stay on the desk and trade
• If long-dated PPAs are where you want to spend your time
• If you need an established playbook and a defined territory before you can start
• If you want inbound flow handed to you and nothing else