Work Place Flexibility: Hybrid 

Legal Entity: Entergy Services, LLC 

***This is a hybrid position located in The Woodlands, TX. Relocation assistance and sponsorship is not provided. This position may be filled as a Fuel Strategist, Senior, or Senior Staff depending on the qualifications and experience of the selected candidate.***

Job Summary/Purpose

As a member of the Fuel Supply Planning & Operations team, this role a key contributor in the development and implementation of long-term commercial strategies to secure reliable, future-ready fuel supply for Entergy’s generation fleet. The position plays a crucial role in advancing cost-effective outcomes for customers and advocating for the team’s strategies with internal and external stakeholders. The primary focus for the strategist role is the long-term--making sure the company is ready to connect fuel supply realities to the evolving needs of the regulated utility. Building and maintaining cross-functional relationships within the company is key. The role influences pivotal decisions for the company that, individually, can influence hundreds of millions of dollars over the lifespan of negotiated deals – these decisions are all the more pivotal as the volume of these high-impact decisions increases.

Job Duties/Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning: Develops long term strategic fuel supply and transportation plans tailored to the needs of existing, developing, and proposed power plants and natural gas storage facilities 

• Market Surveillance: Keeps up-to-date with commodity markets, assessing current fuel supply options relative to changes in gas/power market dynamics; identifies fuel deliverability or reliability risks, and proposes alternative strategies to mitigate such risks.

• Stakeholder Engagement & Communication: Works closely with internal teams and external counterparties to build and maintain relationships that support the team’s fuel supply objectives. Creates and presents regional fuel analysis to internal audiences, including interpreting data, identifying changes in short and long-term trends, conveying condensed market research, explaining regional fuel movements, etc.

• Power Development Site Assessments: Develops and supports site assessment analyses for potential power generation, ensuring early identification and resolution of supply and transport capacity constraints.

• Commercial Origination & Negotiation: Manages key negotiations and origination activities, ensuring commercial terms and agreements align with long-term strategies and add value to the fuel supply portfolio. Leads internal approval processes, including the development and presentation of documents, necessary to execute fuel strategies and support the external regulatory approval process (i.e. write testimony, respond to RFIs, and serve as company witness)

• Legal Coordination: Works closely with legal counsel throughout the origination lifecycle, helping ensure all commercial terms negotiated are supportive of the team’s strategies; also helps develop points of view regarding best practices for supply and transportation agreements

• Project Management: Project Manages fuel related initiatives, including oversight of any infrastructure build-out executed by counterparties to effectuate negotiated supply solutions. Coordinates timelines, discussions, and direction both internally (with Operating Companies, Capital Projects, Power Generation, Legal, Credit & Risk, Regulatory, etc.) and externally (with potential counterparties).

• Tools & Data Integrity Management: Develops and leads the implementation of tools, datasets, and analytical capabilities essential for long-term planning, including but not limited to geospatial representations of assets and fuel supply positions. Leads efforts to ensure the integrity, accessibility, and usefulness of key document and data repositories, aligning with industry standards and best practices.

• Operational Coordination & Alignment: Engages with procurement and scheduling teams to ensure that long-term strategic initiatives positively impact daily operations and that sufficient understanding of operational procurement is maintained for potential backup support.

Minimum Requirements

Minimum education required of the position

• Bachelor's degree in a field of study with relevance for work in the energy industry, operations or commercial transactions. MBA or other relevant graduate degree is preferred.

Minimum experience required of the position

Strategist:

• 3-4 years of experience in relevant field (Natural Gas, related project, related utility experience)

Strategist, Sr:

• 5-6 years of experience in relevant field (Natural Gas, related project, related utility experience)

Strategist, Sr Staff:

• 7+ years of experience in relevant field (Natural Gas, related project, related utility experience)

Minimum knowledge, skills, and abilities required of the position

Relationship Building & Teaming: Cultivates trust and collaboration to support high-performing teams and partnerships.

Problem Solving: See Issue Identification & Framing + Project & Priority Management defined below.

• Issue Identification & Framing: Identifies and defines challenges, risks, and opportunities that matter given team and company priorities.
• Project & Priority Management: Organizes, prioritizes, and maintains focus on work that delivers meaningful results given team and company priorities, recalibrating as new information dictates.

Capability Development: Proactively develops skills and knowledge useful for growing and creating value relative to team and company priorities.

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Primary Location: Texas-The Woodlands Texas : The Woodlands 
Job Function: Professional
FLSA Status: Professional 
Relocation Option: No Relocation Offered
Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT 
Number of Openings: 2
Req ID: 118950
Travel Percentage:Up to 25%

An Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disability/Vets. Please click here to view the EEI page, or see statements below.

EEO Statement: The Entergy System of Companies provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. The Entergy System of Companies complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. 

The Entergy System of Companies expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of the Entergy System of Company employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.

Accessibility: Entergy provides reasonable accommodations for online applicants. Requests for a reasonable accommodation may be made orally or in writing by an applicant, employee, or third party on his or her behalf. If you are an individual with a disability and you are in need of an accommodation for the recruiting process please click here and provide your name, contact number, the accommodation requested and the requisition number that you are requesting the accommodation for. Employee Services will contact you regarding your request.

Additional Responsibilities: As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

Equal Opportunity

The non-confidential portions of the affirmative action program for individuals with disabilities and protected veterans shall be available for inspection upon request by any employee or applicant for employment.  Please contact HRCompliance@entergy.com to schedule a time to review the affirmative action plan during regular office hours.

WORKING CONDITIONS:
As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

Please note: Authorization to work in the United States is a precondition to employment in this position. Entergy will not sponsor candidates for work visas for this position.