Senior Manager, Load Forecasting & Analytics (Hybrid)

AbilityLinks; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern Company Services is seeking a senior leader for Load Forecasting to guide the annual forecasting cadence and deliver authoritative energy, peak demand, and revenue forecasts for the Southern Company family of retail electric operating companies.

The role combines analytical rigor with regulatory acumen, leading a team of professionals to develop, document, and defend forecasting models and assumptions for planning, financial, and regulatory uses.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Finance, Engineering, Mathematics, Decision Sciences, Data Science, or a complementary discipline required.
• Master’s degree, Ph.D., or other advanced technical or business degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Annual Forecasting and Planning Cadence.
• Lead completion of official energy, peak demand, and revenue forecasts for Southern Company and its retail electric operating companies.
• Own the annual forecasting process that supports resource planning, financial planning, capital planning, budgets, IRP and rate case inputs, and executive decision-making.
• Coordinate timelines, assumptions, deliverables, and stakeholder review points to ensure forecast outputs are accurate, timely and transparent to support the Company planning processes.
• Govern Forecasting Methodologies, Models, Tools, and Assumptions
• Oversee development, improvement, documentation, benchmarking, validation, and implementation of forecasting models, statistical methods, tools, and assumptions.
• Ensure forecast methodologies can withstand internal review, regulatory challenge, and external stakeholder scrutiny.

Skills

Analytical judgment

MS Office

Communication skills

Forecasting knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Finance, Engineering, Mathematics, Decision Sciences, Data Science

Master’s degree/ Ph.D. preferred

Tools

EViews

SAS

Python

R

SQL

Power BI

Excel

Job description

Southern Company Services is seeking a senior leader for Load Forecasting to guide the annual forecasting cadence and deliver authoritative energy, peak demand, and revenue forecasts for the Southern Company family of retail electric operating companies.

The role combines analytical rigor with regulatory acumen, leading a team of professionals to develop, document, and defend forecasting models and assumptions for planning, financial, and regulatory uses.