Global Head of Solar Research

Role Overview

• Define and drive the solar research agenda: anticipating and identifying emerging themes that shape the energy transition, while ensuring our datasets and written research meet the highest quality standards, drive commercial success, and deliver clear, actionable answers to our customers' most pressing questions.
• Develop thought-provoking research that challenges conventional wisdom and generates new insights for industry participants, while interconnecting relevant research and data within other parts of the company.
• Drive AI adoption across research teams to continuously improve accuracy, efficiency, and overall research quality and ensure that Wood Mac research always stays ahead of the curve.
• Take commercial ownership of our solar products and the solar product roadmap, ensuring our research aligns with customer needs, maintaining and building new sources of competitive advantage, and identifying and pursuing growth opportunities.
• Serve as the main point of contact for our solar products, helping to administer and communicate changes and initiatives to sales, marketing, product, and leadership teams.
• Collaborate with leadership on product strategy, resourcing, marketing priorities, and support analysis for commercial performance.
• Establish an industry presence as an influential speaker and thinker and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders in the solar and broader power industry.
• 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.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in the power industry, with considerable focus on solar energy.
• The ideal candidate will have a mix of experiences in research or consulting, as well as hands-on experience working at a renewable developer, a company in the solar industry supply chain, or a large buyer of power.
• Deep understanding of global solar industry trends, challenges, and opportunities and a good network of solar industry contacts.
• Experience successfully executing commercial strategies across teams such as marketing, sales, product, or others.
• Strong problem-solving skills and AI-forward thinking.
• A passion to make a difference in the way we power our planet and to help accelerate progress in decarbonizing our economies.
• An excellent writer and public speaker.
• Strong analytical and numerical skills.
• An entrepreneurial mind set.
• Effective at working across a highly matrixed organization.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement plans