Senior Manager, GME Go to Market Acquisition Strategy

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Job Summary: 

Green Mountain Energy seeks an experienced Market & Segment Strategy Senior Manager with strong business acumen and leadership skills that will focus on the acquisition strategy of new customers. This position is full-time located in Houston. The role will collaborate closely with other Market Strategy Managers, Sales Performance team, Marketing team and cross-functional groups to identify business problems and provide data-driven solutions to optimize Green Mountain Energy’s Acquisition strategies in all our markets across the US.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Drive and develop market strategies to increase consideration and achieve competitive advantage utilizing market assessments, customer research, competitive analysis, marketplace trends and growth opportunities
• Work closely with Marketing to identify segments/personas in each market and determine best ways to target based on overall impact to Green Mountain Energy
• Define and own goals and key performance metrics for Acquisition; monitor regularly to understand effectiveness of strategy, making recommendations for continuous improvement
• Lead cross-functional teams in the development and implementation of Go-to-Market strategies and major market initiatives
• Provide strategic brief for Marketing Communications to drive awareness, consideration and eventually purchase with Green Mountain Energy across all markets as well as inform creative and communication strategy
• Stay informed of current market trends and competitive developments within both retail electricity and renewable space in order to continually enhance strategic position
• Collaborate across sales channel teams, offer/revenue teams and digital teams in order to bring Go-to-market acquisition strategy to life across all touchpoints in order to achieve top line goals for Green Mountain Energy
• Collaborate with GME Go-To-Market Retention team to ensure consistency across prospect/customer journeys
• Coordinate with product innovation team to lead strategy of new product launches across channels and markets
• Perform other duties as assigned

Working Conditions:

• Open office environment
• Some overtime required as special projects arise
• Travel (minimal)

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelors Degree Required
• Minimum 3 years in retail electricity industry – preferably ERCOT/TX market
• Minimum 7 years of relevant professional experience in Strategic Marketing or Business Strategy Position
• Proven experience in developing go-to-market strategies for consuming facing products or services
• Proven background in results delivery and optimizing business performance based on set KPIs or goals

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous marketing or marketing agency experience

Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Experienced in using performance measurement/data visualization to report performance to executive leadership (i.e. PowerBI)
• Self-starter with excellent relationship building and interpersonal skills to collaborate across departments and organizations
• Alignment with Green Mountain sustainability and renewable mission

Physical Requirements:

• In office work space, minimal

Why NRG is a great place to work:

• Great company culture!! Voted as a BEST employer by Forbes
• A competitive total compensation package, including annual incentive and/or commission
• Stock Purchase Plan 
• Benefits on the first day of employment - Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, and Short Term Disability, Wellness program, etc.   
• Company-paid life insurance and disability insurance
• 401 (k) plan to help save for retirement
• Generous PTO plan, plus 8 company holidays, and 3 floating holidays
• Numerous discounts, including electricity discounts on NRG brands

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

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Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.

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