Global Head of Solar Research

Company Description

Wood Mackenzie is the global leader in data, analysis and consulting across the energy, chemicals, metals, mining, power and renewables sectors.

Founded in 1973, our success has always been underpinned by the simple principle of providing trusted research and advice that makes a difference to our customers. Today we have over 2,000 customers ranging from the largest global energy companies and financial institutions to governments as well as smaller market specialists.

Our teams are located around the world. This enables us to stay closely connected with customers and the markets and sectors we cover. Collectively this allows us to offer a compelling combination of global commodity analysis with detailed local market knowledge.

We are committed to supporting our people to grow and thrive. We value different perspectives and aspire to create an inclusive environment that encourages diversity and fosters a sense of belonging. We are committed to creating a workplace that works for you and encourage everyone to get involved in our Wellness, Diversity and Inclusion, and Community Engagement initiatives. We actively support flexible working and are happy to consider alternative work patterns, taking into account your needs and the needs of the team or division that you are looking to join.

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**Job Description**:
We are looking for a **Global Head of Solar Energy Research **to join Wood Mackenzie’s Power & Renewables team. The Power & Renewables research team is a highly respected group of analysts producing market-leading research on the entire renewable energy value chain and power industry.

The Global Head of Solar is responsible for setting our research agenda, driving high quality research and thought leadership, serving as the public face of Wood Mackenzie on solar industry issues, and driving our strategy in solar and our commercial success. This includes identifying emerging themes that will impact customers and the industry and ensuring Wood Mackenzie is developing responsive research in its insight and data. The Global Head of Solar is also responsible for influencing our product development and acquisitions strategy, identifying future growth opportunities, and contributing to consulting projects.

The Global Head of Solar will work closely with the thought leadership team in our Power & Renewables practice as well as the solar analysts embedded within each of our regional teams.

**Main Responsibilities**
- Set the solar research agenda - identifying all emerging themes that will impact customers, helping progress the energy transition, and ensuring our datasets and written research are of high quality, help us achieve commercial success, and most importantly answer customers most pressing issues.
- Take commercial ownership of our solar services, ensuring our research aligns with customer needs, we maintain and build new sources of competitive advantage, and we identify and pursue growth opportunities
- Establish an industry presence as an influential speaker and thinker and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders in the solar and larger power industry
- Develop thought provoking research that challenges conventional wisdom and generates new insights for industry participants
- Serve as a thought leader in helping to develop our regional and global narratives that bring together our research across power market supply/demand economics, regulatory dynamics, technology drivers, and company strategies
- Identify the datasets and sources of data necessary to support our underlying analysis and ensure we have proper quality control in developing those datasets
- Support consulting engagements related to solar energy as needed

**Qualifications**:
Successful analyst in Wood Mackenzie’s Power & Renewables practice are thoughtful, intellectually curious, creative and comfortable presenting to public audiences and interacting with small and large groups of executives.

As our Global Head of Solar, you have already developed a reputation as an industry thought leader and have deep expertise on both the solar supply chain and the market dynamics and policies affecting the solar industry. You have excellent verbal and written communication skills and can engage an audience and mentor your team members.

You have an analytical mindset and an eye for detail, which has been proven in your work experience to date, therefore you are comfortable taking complex, disparate ideas and distil them into simple, provocative concepts.

You are a natural self-starter who can work independently and generate the ideas you want to share by leveraging and expanding your industry network. You are comfortable disrupting your routine as you will be constantly looking to learn and provide in-depth analysis on industry trends and innovative market dynamics.

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