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The Technical Sales Account Executive promotes the sale of complex commodity and non-commodity structures NRG offers. Working jointly with Sales, responsible for evaluating the customer need and assessing the appropriate path to deliver each product sold. Technical Sales Originator will build customer relationships through pre-sale and post-sale strategy participation, client meetings, and sales support to increase cross-sell opportunities. This position will serve as a resource to Portfolio Services regarding market intelligence and trend analysis.
Essential Duties/Responsibilities:
- Work with sales to analyze and present to customer/brokers on a wide variety of solutions, selecting the most relevant products and tools to meet client objectives
- Deliver market intelligence and interpretation to internal customers for the purpose of strategy building, trend awareness and arming others with information to communicate in the market
- Advocate and educate sales and internal stakeholders on complex commodity and non-commodity offer
- Contribute to the development of strategies and product offerings within Sales and support groups
- Developing strategy, tactics, sales plans, and profit targets
- Travel (up to 50%) to key customer and partner sites to represent commodity and non-commodity strategy and results to senior management
Working Conditions:
- Open office environment.
- Sensory attention: Continual need to give concentrated attention where multiple stimuli are changing quickly and where 2 or more senses - hearing, seeing, touching, and tasking - must be used in coordination.
- Mental stress: Continuous occurrence of strong demand for results and multiple simultaneous demands requiring decisions
- Travel - up to 25%
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree required. Concentration in engineering, economics, mathematics, or specific energy market analysis-related experience
- 3 or more years related to industry experience
- Exceptional presentation skills and the ability to regularly interact with internal and external senior management
- Able to create and articulate customer procurement strategies using effective rationale for recommendation and decisions
- Proficient with computer spreadsheet and database applications
- Strong understanding of the wholesale and retail energy markets
- Ability to understand, create, and modify effective market and business strategies
- Skilled in business analysis and identifying market potential for significant business growth
- Excellent quantitative skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
- Strong organizational abilities, attention to detail and deadline orientation
- Commitment to work with a sense of urgency
- The ability to work as a team player
- Be proactive and creative in solving problems
- Exhibit a positive attitude to inspire the people around you
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's degree in Business Management or related field preferred
- Holds Certified Energy Procurement Professional (CEP) or Certified Energy Management (CEM) Designation
Physical Requirements:
- Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is occasional opportunity to move about
NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Protected Veteran Status/Disability. Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.
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What We Do
NRG is one of the leading integrated power companies in the U.S, powered by people and built on dynamic retail brands with diverse generation resources. Our purpose is to create a sustainable energy future by bringing the power of energy to people and organizations.
A Fortune 500 company, NRG creates value through best-in-class operations, reliable and efficient electric generation, and a retail platform serving residential and commercial businesses. Working with electricity customers, large and small, we continually innovate, embrace and implement sustainable solutions for producing and managing energy.
We aim to be pioneers in developing smarter energy choices and delivering exceptional service as our retail electricity providers serve over 3.7 million residential and commercial customers through the country. In addition, we actively contribute to the local communities where NRG employees live and work. Since 2004, our positiveNRG program has provided millions of dollars to organizations and charities that have a direct impact on the lives of the people in our communities, including food banks and those that foster self-sufficiency, improve housing and provide supplemental education to people in need. NRG has also organized special responses for victims of extreme catastrophe, such as the Haitian earthquake and the Japanese tsunami in 2010 and most recently Houston Hurricane Harvey relief in 2017.
More information is available at www.nrg.com.
