Energy Economics Senior Analyst

The Opportunity

As an Energy Economics Senior Analyst, you’ll be responsible for EDF UK’s long-term power market modelling capability. You’ll be designing, implementing, and maintaining power market models, using commercial software to undertake market and strategic analysis. You’ll develop insight into a range of areas relevant to EDF’s businesses and vision for the future market environment.  
 
Working closely with analysts across EDF Group, you will ensure scenarios for GB and Irish power markets are developed on sound and coherent quantitative foundations, support projects of strategic importance and provide analysis to help shape the policy agenda.  

Pay, benefits and culture

Alongside a competitive and a market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits to support our people across all aspects of their lives.

Your rewards package includes a choice of benefits, such as electric vehicle leasing, enhanced parental leave, health insurance, discounts, and employee pricing.

Flexible working means you can work from home (if you wish) and we’ll provide a suite of IT equipment to ensure that you can work remotely comfortably and effectively.

At EDF, everyone’s welcome. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone has a voice and where you feel confident being yourself. We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.

We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need.

We’ll value the difference you bring and offer opportunities for you to thrive and succeed.

What you’ll be doing

As an Energy Economics Senior Analyst within our Net Zero Strategy & Policy team[ML1] , a strategic function critical to developing and steering the business, you’ll:

• Own EDF’s long-term power market modelling for the UK and Ireland, designing and maintaining cutting-edge models using commercial software to deliver strategic insights.
• Dive deep into market dynamics, uncovering trends and opportunities that align with EDF’s vision for a sustainable future.
• Working autonomously and taking initiative, you’ll support junior team members, and build team expertise.
• Respond to strategic business needs, providing analysis that shapes policy discussions and supports critical projects.
• Collaborate across EDF Group, ensuring robust, coherent scenarios for GB and Irish markets.
• Deliver impactful insights, presenting clear recommendations to senior stakeholders to guide investments and highlight key market risks and opportunities.
• Stay ahead of the curve, developing expertise in the fundamental drivers of UK electricity and connected markets and anticipating changes driven by policy, technology, and competition to identify strategic risks and opportunities.

Who you are 

 We’re on the hunt for someone who brings:

• Proven analytical & technical expertise— whether from industry, academia, or both. We’d also love to see your programming capability (Python, VBA or similar)
• Sharp insight into the UK energy market — or similar sectors.
• Problem-solving prowess — thriving both in team settings and independently.
• Unwavering precision—producing “right first time” work and confidently peer reviewing others’ analysis.
• Curiosity and drive — to tackle fresh challenges, take initiative, and shape evolving projects.
• Clear communication — to make complex ideas click with any audience.
• Creative thinking — spotting risks, uncovering opportunities, and bringing fresh ideas to the table.

Application close date: Sunday 9th February

Location: Nova North, London

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