ABOUT POWER FACTORS
Power Factors develops software that accelerates the global energy transition by empowering all renewable energy stakeholders to collaborate, automate critical workflows, and make the best decisions. Power Factors fights climate change with code.
Power Factors has incorporated its four flagship solutions Drive, Greenbyte, BluePoint, and Unity to build an integrated suite of open and smart apps. These apps are purpose-built for asset management, field service optimization, and performance optimization. Leveraging domain expertise and machine learning-based advanced analytics within these apps, customers can maximize the value of their renewable assets to stay competitive.
Power Factors’ renewable energy software platform is one of the most extensive and widely deployed solutions in the market with nearly 280 GW of wind, solar, hydro, and energy storage assets managed worldwide.
Learn more at powerfactors.com.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are seeking a highly motivated and analytically minded individual to join our dynamic Corporate Strategy team as a Senior Research Analyst. This role is pivotal in supporting our Executive Leadership team by gathering market and competitive intelligence to guide strategic decisions. This role also facilitates information sharing and communication between strategy, marketing, sales, product, and customer success teams, and contributes to the development of key data-driven insights that inform our strategy.
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
Market & Customer Intelligence:
- Build comprehensive view of market with data, including current capacity, pipeline, and key market players.
- Conduct thorough research and analysis of market dynamics, customer strategies, and industry developments to provide insights for strategic decision-making.
- Monitor and report on market dynamics, sizing & segmentation, identifying opportunities and threats as critical intelligence to guide business growth.
- Develop a set of key market indicators to enable us to track key trends impacting our customers.
- Provide regular reporting on financial metrics of customers, competitors and investors in sector.
Competitive Intelligence:
- Gather intelligence on competitors' strategies, product positioning, and marketing strategy to inform our competitive advantage.
- Work cross-functionally to enable marketing and other teams to leverage these insights to develop effective battle cards and competitive positioning materials.
Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Collaborate with product marketing and product teams to understand strategic product roadmaps, ensuring alignment with market trends.
- Partner with marketing, sales, and customer success teams to facilitate insight & data gathering and ensure a unified and informed view of market, customers, and competitors.
Communication and Presentation:
- Clearly communicate complex data findings and insights to stakeholders.
- Produce regular updates on industry, customer and competitor news and trends for executives, including daily news updates, monthly review of trends and news, and quarterly read outs to the board.
WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL
We believe you enjoy working in a purpose-driven organization and that you thrive in an environment where you need to find creative solutions to challenging problems in a fast-changing context. This also means that you are effective at managing multiple tasks of varying complexities, work well under pressure, and are driven by continuous learning and growth. Specifically, we are looking for someone with the following toolbox:
- 3-5+ years of experience in research, strategy, competitive intelligence, investment banking, or strategy consulting.
- Experience in energy or renewables vertical.
- Strong analytical skills with proficiency in data analysis tools and techniques.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Strategic thinking and ability to translate data into actionable insights – ability to bring the data story to life in a compelling way.
- High attention to detail and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
LIFE @ POWER FACTORS
We are an agile software development company – big enough to make an impact, but small enough to move quickly and execute in a growing industry, taking advantage of rapidly evolving technologies. We are a collective of bold and ingenious talents driven by results. Our team is made up of hard-working, fun-loving people who are passionate about making the world a better place. We seek fierce and humble people to help us achieve our ambitious plan.
WHY JOIN US
- A humble cause with a clear purpose – you will help us fight climate change with </code> every day at work. We aim to be environmentally conscious in all aspects of our operations.
- Work with passionate experts and top-talents in your field – we are proud of our highly skilled crowd and the savviness each of us brings to the team.
- Friendly and uplifting atmosphere – we believe kindness and respectfulness is core for our culture. A friendly smile or a helping hand is never far away.
- Flexible hours and workplace – it is the result that counts, not when or where. Our hybrid/remote work setup allows everyone to set themselves up for success and create a more sustainable work-life balance.
- All the benefits you expect (and more) – besides the basic benefits (adopted to local needs and norms), you will enjoy perks such as 8h of paid volunteering per year and participation in our Corporate Bonus Program (to name a few).
WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
Power Factors is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to engaging a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.