Joe Amara Executive Search is seeking a Vice President, Commercial Analytics to lead a high-impact team responsible for market analytics, transmission commercialization, resource adequacy analysis, and customer-facing commercial insights across North American power markets.
This executive will serve as a player-coach leader, balancing team development, strategic direction, and direct analytical execution. The ideal candidate brings deep experience across ISO/RTO markets, exceptional commercial judgment, and the credibility to represent sophisticated market conclusions to utilities, counterparties, and internal leadership.
This is a rare opportunity to join a rapidly scaling infrastructure platform at the intersection of power market analytics, transmission strategy, and large-scale grid modernization.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and elevate a growing team of commercial analysts and market modeling professionals
- Provide day-to-day quality control over analytical workstreams, ensuring outputs are technically robust and commercially actionable
- Coach team members through technical hurdles, problem-solving roadblocks, data gaps, and vendor iterations
- Build an accountability-driven, high-performance culture centered on precision, ownership, and execution
- Drive advanced commercial analysis supporting HVDC transmission, interregional grid-to-grid infrastructure, and capacity-focused development opportunities
- Oversee basis analysis, ELCC / loss-of-load expectation modeling, capacity accreditation, and market scenario development
- Translate market structure dynamics, historical bidding behavior, and operational nuance into actionable commercial assumptions
- Support strategic decision-making around customer proposals, regulatory filings, project economics, and transmission commercialization
- Remain highly engaged in managing the analytical work, including reviewing assumptions, pressure-testing model outputs, refining scenarios, solving data quality issues, and improving workplans
- Partner closely with third-party vendors on production cost modeling and other outsourced analytical workflows. Ensure vendor outputs improve through iterative feedback cycles and commercial precision
- Present analytical findings to senior internal stakeholders across development, commercial, legal, and executive leadership
- Convert complex quantitative outputs into clear commercial narratives that influence decision-making
- Support customer-facing presentations, executive materials, and regulatory-quality documentation
Requirements:
- 15–25 years of power market, commercial analytics, or resource adequacy experience. 7+ years of leadership experience.
- Deep knowledge of a major ISO/RTO, with broader multi-market exposure strongly preferred
- Proven leadership of analytical teams in high-growth, high-accountability environments
- Strong command of transmission economics, capacity markets, production cost modeling workflows, and market fundamentals
- Demonstrated ability to manage third-party consultants and modeling vendors
- Exceptional communication skills with executive presence
- Experience within IPPs, utilities, transmission developers, advisory firms, or sophisticated power market consultancies
About Us
Joe Amara Executive Search is a boutique executive search firm specializing in transmission, power generation and digital infrastructure, with deep networks across IPPs, the capital markets and energy advisory services globally. We lead confidential retained searches for C-suite, senior commercial, and niche technical roles across the globe. For more information please visit; joemara.com or email your resume to amepham@joeamara.com
