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SalaryACT Commodities is the world's leading provider of market-based sustainability solutions. As a pioneer of the global energy transition, ACT helps organizations hit their climate targets, no matter how ambitious. Since 2009, ACT has become a trusted brand in high-impact climate projects, green electricity markets, renewable energy, emission allowances and carbon offsets. With a growing portfolio of over 70 products in 40 plus countries, ACT builds its relationships on trust and fosters an entrepreneurial environment.
Our Amsterdam, New York, Paris, Shanghai, and Singapore teams deliver tailor-made solutions backed up by extensive market knowledge. We are a fast-paced and forward-thinking organization that believes that we are better together!
On the Research and Development team, your role is crucial in building and developing the business. Your job will be to understand a complex and dynamic marketplace where changing legislation, product availability, and client requirements add up to new market opportunities. The role is all-encompassing, you will identify and source suitable products to create new market opportunities. From there, be a part of bringing the new opportunity to fruition through prospecting new potential clients with your sales skills and building client relationships.
What you'll do:
- Lead and assist in the formulation, development and implementation of low carbon regulation and strategies for commercial growth drivers.
- Support the development of cross-functional implementation strategies, new business opportunities and the project management framework with a commercial perspective.
- Identify and drive strategic opportunities and business optimization within existing frameworks.
- Share information and knowledge with the trading desks to assist in the execution of the products and services in low carbon business.
- Evaluate new product offering to customers and counterparties utilizing cross-sector opportunities to build new proposals and analyze corporates low carbon targets and implementation of sustainability plans.
- Build up the value chain supporting and designing, developing and ensuring constant evolution of low carbon regulation in close collaboration with other team members of the R&D team and trading desks.
- Analyze supply/demand balances and corporates behaviors
- Identify current and future industry trends in different sectors aiming to achieve decarbonization targets.
- Analyze feasibility stage projects for developing solutions of low carbon transactions/ projects, providing financial analysis on the profitability and returns potential, challenges and opportunities in developing new market strategies at project level and program level in the context of new regulatory frameworks.
- Collect, disseminate, and analyze economic data and provide data analysis.
Who you are:
- 3-5 years of professional experience in environmental commodities and knowledge in analyzing economic, financial, and policy issues in low carbon markets.
- Masters in Economics with concentration in financial modelling or finance
- Knowledge of North American or Americas low carbon regulatory framework, including compliance requirements.
- Clear understanding of economic evaluation methodologies / project management to work business cases through the process.
- Substantial knowledge of financial economics, econometrics, forecasting techniques, and economic modeling.
- Superior analytical skills that can be translated into policy research and ability to communicate complex issues to a wide range of audiences in both written and oral form.
- Strong tactical and strategic thinking skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication.
- Excellent presentation skills.
- Professional working proficiency in Spanish or Portuguese a plus.
Salary Range: $100,000-$125,000
Actual base pay may vary based on various factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, level and experience. The base pay is just one component of the total competitive compensation package for employees.
ACT Commodities Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions at ACT Commodities, Inc. are made without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, family or parental status, status with regard to public assistance, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
