We're at a turning point in history. Climate change is changing the world faster than ever before. Utilities will play a crucial role in the transformation of our society to fight climate change and become carbon-neutral, while at the same time making sure people and businesses can continue to use energy supply like they've been used to for so many years.

At Gorilla, we're determined to not stand by, but to make a real impact on the utility industry by providing data services that allow utilities to play the role they need to play in the quest for a net-zero society. By building something that solves a real problem, and by being the best at what we do.

Your role

• You display expertise and are able to connect with customer business experts to work together on creating the perfect solution. 
• You use your deep understanding of pricing, forecasting, and portfolio management to co-create calculation models in Gorilla.
• You configure, test, and identify gaps in our existing solution, defining a backlog of project work.
• You make sure our data engineers know what to develop.
• You protect development quality by creating and performing extensive test scenarios.
• Together with the project manager, solution architect, and data engineering team, you take delivering IT projects to the next level.

Your responsibilities

As an Energy Consultant, you work together with our clients, solution architects, and engineers on requirements for calculation models, identifying specific data needs and algorithms. With your knowledge of the Energy market, you are able to represent and demonstrate Gorilla’s beautiful pricing, forecasting, and billing solutions to our prospects and clients.  

Starting with the sales phase, all the way throughout the implementation of a project, you support our customers in workshops with different stakeholders. From start to finish, you translate functional project details into a language all stakeholders understand. 

You effortlessly describe the market cost component calculations, characteristics, and best practices to all project stakeholders. Additionally, you are skilled at analyzing and understanding a client’s process and their pricing and forecasting methodologies. By gathering information, you can accurately brief our engineering team and test their deliverables. You pride yourself on a qualitative delivery every time. 

As a strong believer in co-creation and teamwork, you naturally do all of this in close collaboration with your colleagues.

Requirements

• You have at least 5 years of experience in the energy retail industry in areas of pricing, forecasting, or trading.
• You have worked on IT projects before.
• You understand the Energy market inside out and are following up on the latest advancements.
• You have an analytical mind and are a numerical problem solver.
• You thrive on understanding and solving complex problems.
• You’re fluent in English and German.
• You have strong communication skills, both written and oral 
• You are a people person, just as much as a subject matter expert.
• You have experience in multiple geographical energy markets (+)

Benefits

You become part of an ambitious organization and an enthusiastic team with a mindset to win! As Gorilla is growing at an incredible pace, you can leave your mark - growing alongside Gorilla.

We actively challenge ourselves and our colleagues, to always improve our skills, methodology, and capabilities. Lifelong learning is essentially embedded in our organization, and we care about your dreams and ambitions, beyond just work.

On top of that, our remuneration approach is clear and no-nonsense, just like our feedback culture and personal development approach. You'll be able to join a team from wherever you'd like to work - equipped with the best technology for remote work. We'll provide access to an office space near you whenever you like, as well as frequent travels to meet your colleagues in person, making sure you'll never feel lonely. You benefit when we grow as well, with our employee share option plan.