Market Regulatory and Strategy Manager

As the Market Strategy and Regulatory Manager, you will play a key role in shaping and implementing our market strategy, with a focus on response and reserve, ancillary services, local network flexibility, and capacity market activities in Japan. You will be responsible for navigating complex regulatory environments, identifying market opportunities, and ensuring adherence to industry standards.
Client Details
Green tech energy scale-up company with ambitious plans to revolutionize the energy sector, driving towards a global zero-carbon future. With a strong foundation in demand-side response, they've expanded their strategies and product range to penetrate new global markets.
Description
Market Strategy Development:
* Conduct comprehensive market analysis to identify trends, opportunities, and threats related to Balancing Market, Wholesale Market, capacity markets and other flexibility services in Japan.
* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and implement effective market strategies aligned with business objectives.
* Monitor competitor activities and industry developments to stay ahead of market changes.
Regulatory Compliance:
* Stay abreast of regulatory changes, guidelines, and standards affecting the energy industry, with a focus on response and reserve ancillary services and capacity markets.
* Ensure that market regulatory risks are identified, and managed in customer contracts in line with company risk appetite.
* Maintain a regulatory compliance framework to ensure the company adherence to all relevant regulations, and communicate this to internal operations and sales teams.
Market Participation:
* Manage the company's registration and participation in Balancing, Wholesale and capacity Markets as an Aggregation Co-ordinator.
* Manage the company's participation in capacity market auctions, ensuring accurate and timely submission of bids and compliance with all requirements.
Project Management:
* Project management of the company's early customers, including site auditing, co-ordination with customers on market submissions, testing and support to customers troubleshooting.
* Interface with company's product team to support understanding of technical requirements.
Stakeholder Engagement:
* Cultivate and maintain relationships with key industry stakeholders, including OCCTO, METI, TDGC, JEPX, TSOs and other regulatory bodies, government agencies, and industry associations.
* Represent Beyond in industry forums, conferences, and working groups to enhance the company's visibility and influence.
* Engage with strategic customers and partners in support of business development.
Profile
* Bachelor's degree in a relevant field; advanced degree preferred.
* Proven experience in electricity market in Japan.
* Experience and understanding of the Japanese electricity market in general.
* In-depth knowledge of the Japanese energy regulatory landscape and capacity market mechanisms.
* Strong understanding of demand response and energy management technologies.
* Excellent analytical, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills.
* Willingness to travel and support commercial engagement with clients and strategic partners.
* Effective communication and interpersonal skills for engaging with internal teams and external stakeholders.
* Strong mathematical skills and use of Excel (python would be a bonus for forecasting future pricing).
* Demonstrated ability to lead and manage projects independently.
* Good working capabilities of English & Japanese
Job Offer
Excellent salary to experience
Annual leaves and public holidays
Self- development funding
Flexible and hybrid working model
Work from anywhere once a year
Employee Referrals Bonuses
Work/Life Balance
To apply online please click the 'Apply' button below. For a confidential discussion about this role please contact Francois Fleury at +81 3 6832 8674.