Trading & Asset Optimization Manager

ACCIONA Energía is the biggest 100% renewable energy company with no fossil legacy in the world. With more than 30 years of experience and operations in 20 countries on five continents, ACCIONA Energía offers a wide portfolio of tailored energy solutions so that its corporate and institutional clients can meet their decarbonisation goals. This includes the development, engineering, construction, operation and maintenance of renewable power plants -mainly wind and photovoltaic technologies-, energy sales and management and marketing, energy services, self-consumption, electric mobility and new technologies such as storage and green hydrogen. ACCIONA Energía is governed by the most demanding environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) criteria.

The Trading & Asset Optimization Manager will be responsible for the senior trading and asset optimization function. This role combines analytical, bidding, position management, hedge execution, and portfolio optimization responsibilities.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Lead trading and asset optimization activities for Acciona’s renewable asset portfolio.
• Execute transactions and manage portfolio positions across relevant markets, including bilateral contracts, exchanges, and OTC brokers.
• Develop, implement, and execute hedging and optimization strategies for renewable asset portfolios with merchant or market-exposed positions.
• Design, implement, and execute daily, short-term, and medium-term bidding strategies for Day-Ahead and Real-Time market participation.
• Manage short-term trading, hedge execution, and related position management activities.
• Analyze short-term congestion, transmission conditions, outages, weather, generation forecasts, market fundamentals, and trading implications.
• Monitor electricity market conditions, grid operations, asset performance, and market price formation to dynamically adjust trading and bidding strategies.
• Manage existing hedge positions and recommend adjustments when appropriate.
• Analyze FTR, ARR, or other congestion hedging alternatives and recommend transactions where appropriate to manage basis exposure.
• Identify physical and financial offtake opportunities with wholesale energy market participants that support portfolio monetization and risk management.
• Conduct quantitative assessments of portfolio risk exposures, including volume, shape, price, basis, congestion, and operational risks.
• Prepare analyses to support proposed market transactions, trading strategies, hedge recommendations, and internal approvals.
• Report trading activities, position updates, and relevant risk items to the appropriate internal governance forums, including risk committee processes.
• Support and monitor optimization strategies for energy storage portfolios in coordination with third-party providers or internal stakeholders.
• Support technical and commercial evaluations of opportunities and structured offtakes
• Serve as a senior analytical and commercial thought partner for structured origination products, clean energy block offtake structures, asset co-location opportunities, and other commercial strategies.
• Coordinate with Origination, Analysis and Structuring, Commercial and Operations, Legal, Finance, Accounting, and other stakeholders to ensure trading strategies are executable, risk-controlled, and properly administered.
• Develop and maintain relationships with trading counterparties and market service providers.
• Assess and respond to market trends, regulatory developments, technology changes, and portfolio needs by recommending and executing trading strategies.
• Other responsibilities as assigned.

Required Skills and Competencies

Requirements:

• 5-10 years of experience in electricity markets, trading, asset optimization, or portfolio management.
• Strong knowledge of energy market dynamics, grid operations, congestion, basis risk, dispatch, renewable asset operations, and market fundamentals.
• Strong quantitative, analytical, financial modeling, and decision-making skills.
• Strong asset-backed trading knowledge.
• Ability to execute transactions within approved risk limits and governance processes.
• Ability to handle large datasets, interpret market signals, identify trends, and generate actionable trading insights.
• Experience developing and executing bidding strategies in Day-Ahead and Real-Time power markets is a plus.
• Experience evaluating and structuring financially settled hedge products such as options, collars, swaps is a plus.
• Knowledge of ERCOT, PJM, SPP, MISO, AESO electricity markets is a plus.
• Experience with programming languages, data analytics tools, market platforms, or data query tools is a plus.
• Knowledge of battery storage optimization is a plus.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, dynamic, and technically challenging environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Finance, Economics, Business, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent work experience. Advanced degree is a plus.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain trading strategies, risks, and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• High level of integrity, commercial judgment, risk discipline, and accountability.
• Valid driver’s license and satisfactory driving record, if required by company policy.

As a company that values diversity as a source of talent, we work to foster an inclusive environment that promotes respect, belonging and engagement so that all people can participate on an equal opportunity basis. We invite everyone to apply regardless of origin, circumstances, background or condition.