Strategy Analyst

Job Title: Strategy Analyst

Location: London

Salary: Competitive

Job Type: Full Time, Permanent

About JERA Nex

We drive JERA’s renewable energy business growth in Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. As a global renewables IPP working across the life cycle of renewables, we are looking for key talent to be an active part of this exciting journey as the business grows further.

In light of our further international business expansion, JERA Nex is looking to add to its Strategy & Planning team with the position of Strategy Analyst.

As a direct report to the Strategy General Manager, JERA Nex, the Strategy Analyst will be responsible for supporting the strategy team and management across a variety of initiatives focused on ensuring the successful growth of the JERA Nex global business.

The role will be based in London and will require occasional travelling and frequent collaboration with the JERA Group Headquarters in Japan, the JERA Nex Headquarters in the UK and Parkwind Headquarters in Belgium.

Join us and shape the future of energy!

What you will be doing:

As a core member of our Strategy function, you will have the opportunity to play a valuable role in the JERA Nex growth story.

Key activities will include:

• Help drive the annual strategic planning process, from workshops, analysis, coordination, materials preparation, etc.
• Analyse publicly available market data for insights and trends and translating this into threat or opportunity assessments for JERA Nex.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the business, regional operations, and with colleagues at JERA Co. in Tokyo, to share and embed forecasts in strategic decision making.
• Define problems and strategic solutions (scoping, analysis, preparing and presenting strategy checks)
• Engage in other projects – as we continue our rapid expansion, there are no shortage of strategic and even operational initiatives to get involved in!

Job requirements:

What you will have:

• 2-5 years of consulting or similar professional working experience, preferably with exposure to renewables or new-tech oriented roles.
• Strong understanding of energy markets, economics, and power fundamentals.
• Excellent verbal & written communication, presentation & stakeholder engagement skills at all levels.
• Problem-solving skills, including hypothesis-led thinking and analysis.
• Experience in driving business transformation from strategy development to execution, including business case development and frameworks for evaluation value realisation.
• A self-starter, happy to seek out issues & opportunities and resolve proactively.
• Motivating & empowering capabilities, able to build consensus across functions, business units, geographies.
• Global work experience.
• Fluent in English.

What we offer:

• Start-up and entrepreneurial environment in a company that is part of a larger, well-funded firm, that has long-term ambition to contribute to global decarbonization.
• Opportunity to define your workplace. We are starting out and every idea counts!
• A job that is part of making our world a greener place.
• International team that benefits from our different perspectives, backgrounds and experiences.
• We are high-performing and ambitious individuals who also enjoy our private lives. We hope you can identify with that.
• We believe in the benefit of flexible working hours and location and appreciate that we see one another in person regularly.
• We are not afraid to admit that we don’t know things but also proactively look to solve problems and work collaboratively.
• We work hard but also want to have fun at the same time, we’re on an exciting journey.

Established in 2015, JERA is an equal joint venture of TEPCO Fuel & Power, Incorporated and Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc. JERA is a Japanese company with significant and global portfolio of international energy assets. It has industry leading expertise scaling the entire fuel and power supply chain, from upstream fuel investments to fuel procurement, trading and transportation, to power generation development, construction and operation. JERA’s mission is to contribute to an internationally competitive supply of power and energy and to invigorate the standard of living, industry and economy around the world.

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Candidates with experience of; Performance Manager, Strategy Management, Performance Analyst, Programme Office, Principal Officer, Strategist, Planning Manager, Planning Analyst, Project Support, Project Analyst may also be considered for this role.