Research Associate - Emissions

In the middle of the energy transition, businesses and governments are faced with significant challenges. But the pace and scale of change mean every decision is made under mounting pressure. Now, more than ever, companies need reliable data, analytics and actionable insight.

Wood Mackenzie is the leading global provider of data and analytics solutions for the renewables, energy and natural resources sectors.

Wood Mackenzie’s services include data, analytics, insight, events and consultancy. A trusted partner for over 50 years, Wood Mackenzie’s team has over 2,300 experts across more than 30 global locations who cover the entire supply chain.

Wood Mackenzie Values

• Inclusive – we succeed together
• Trusting – we choose to trust each other
• Customer committed – we put customers at the heart of our decisions
• Future Focused – we accelerate change
• Curious – we turn knowledge into action

Wood Mackenzie are an industry-leading research and advisory company that provides analysis and insight on the world’s natural resources with offices all around the globe.

Wood Mackenzie’s Carbon Management Research team aspires to enable clients across the energy value chain to understand and respond to market and portfolio-related climate risks and opportunities by providing comprehensive, decision-useful carbon data and analytics. Some of the services we provide include calculation and benchmarking of emissions across the full value chain of commodities, tracking and forecasting of carbon prices, and research and reporting on carbon markets.

The Carbon team is growing quickly as we help to drive the pace and scale of the energy transition and to serve different customer segments with integrated analysis. In the Carbon team we model greenhouse gas emissions across a number of different sectors and value chains, including oil and gas, metals and mined commodities, power, cement and hydrogen. We support clients across the energy value chain to understand and respond to market and portfolio-related climate risks and opportunities by providing comprehensive, decision-useful carbon data and analytics. Some of the services we provide include calculation and benchmarking of emissions across the full value chain of commodities, tracking and forecasting of carbon prices, and research and reporting on carbon markets.

Role Purpose

This role will serve as part of Wood Mackenzie’s Carbon research team. This is an excellent opportunity to join a strong, global team and make a major contribution to decarbonization and the energy transition at a global scale.

You will work together with our other global Carbon research team members and with the analysts from our commodities teams (including oil and gas, metals and mining, and power and renewables) to calibrate, improve and expand our emissions data and research, ensuring we remain at the leading edge of this critical analysis. You will also support research relating to carbon pricing and assessing its impact to asset and company valuations.

Emissions data and modelling contributes to Wood Mackenzie’s Emissions Benchmarking Tool (EBT), Lens Emissions, Lens Carbon and numerous other tools and services; as such, you will also become a go-to person to support stakeholders from related functions such as our data and product teams.

Developing relationships with industry partners will also be key in this role. Through your research and industry engagement, you will establish a knowledge base to test assumptions on methodologies, as well as to represent Wood Mackenzie’s research in a high-quality way to clients.

Main responsibilities

The Associate is expected to:

• Support in the modelling of WoodMac’s GHG emissions estimations, in collaboration with commodity experts in the Carbon research team, and ensure high quality data and methodological alignment. Specifically, this includes:
  • Keeping cross-commodity assumptions updated, for emissions calculation;
  • Performing calibration of emissions estimates against public sources and corporate reports;
  • Testing the robustness of emissions metrics (including corporate/economic metrics such as value at risk);
  • Ensuring the robustness of data flows across various commodities, taking a value chain and/or corporate approach.
  • Helping colleagues in other teams integrate emissions and/or carbon prices into their commodities’ modelling.
• Work closely with the Emissions Benchmarking Tool and Lens Emissions product owners to address modelling, testing and calibration priorities.
• Collaborate effectively with colleagues in the Carbon research team and others to establish best practices and consistency for GHG emissions across all commodities.
• Contribute to written analysis and other research to highlight interesting and relevant trends in emissions for various commodities.

Qualifications

Our products and people are our intellectual capital, so we welcome and reward intellectual excellence, curiosity, and sophisticated thinking and look for:

• 1-3 years of experience in the energy or natural resources sectors and/or related to sustainability, GHG accounting or carbon markets.
• Experience in developing and/or running models in Excel and comfortable working with large datasets. Knowledge or experience with programmes such as Python/R are not required but beneficial.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities. Interest in using both qualitative and quantitative methods to answer clients’ questions.
• Strong communication skills. Comfortable interacting with colleagues, clients and industry stakeholders across different time zones and as part of a global team.
• Self-driven and resourceful. Capable of switching between the roles of an individual contributor and a collaborator.
• Passionate, with a deep intellectual curiosity about the energy transition.

Equal Opportunities

We are an equal opportunities employer. This means we are committed to recruiting the best people regardless of their race, colour, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. You can find out more about your rights under the law at www.eeoc.gov 

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