Market Expert – German Short-Term Power Market

Montel EnAppSys is seeking an experienced Market Expert for the German Short-Term Power Market.

We are looking for an analytical professional with a commercial mindset and a deep understanding of the German day-ahead, intraday, and balancing markets. If you have worked in a trading or asset-optimisation environment and enjoy explaining complex market mechanisms, this may be the ideal role for you.

In this position, you will act as the human link between our analytical platform and our customers. You will understand how the German power market operates, how our tools can support trading and optimisation decisions, and how to identify and explain potential risks and opportunities.

You will also play a crucial role in improving our products, models, and data visualisations, ensuring that they match customer needs and reflect market realities.

Location: Flexible (Germany, United Kingdom, or European Union)

What You Will Do

Develop the Montel Brand

• Provide expert commentary on the German short-term market through articles, white papers, webinars, and events.
• Engage with social media and Montel journalists, offering credible insights and market commentary.
• Support sales and marketing teams with technical demonstrations, Q&A sessions, and targeted campaigns.
• Build professional visibility and audience engagement through social-media activity and event participation.

Develop Product

• Work closely with product and analytics teams to refine short-term market models, visualisations, and data quality.
• Identify new analytical opportunities and propose improvements to enhance customer value.
• Test and validate analytical tools, ensuring alignment between market behaviour and platform output.

Develop People

• Contribute to internal training and knowledge sharing across teams.
• Provide subject-matter expertise to advisory and consultancy activities.
• Support internal communication by explaining market changes and their implications for customers and systems.

Develop Look & Feel & Usability

• Collaborate with software and design teams to improve data presentation, user experience, and visual clarity.
• Recommend interface and functional enhancements based on market understanding and user feedback.

Contribute to the Montel Market Expert Group

• Log and analyse key German market events and price drivers.
• Discuss trends with colleagues, align communication, and develop common market views.
• Share insights across teams to strengthen collective market understanding.

What You Bring

• Degree in economics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, or a related discipline.
• More than five years of experience in the German or European power sector, preferably within a trading, optimisation, or market-analysis function.
• Strong knowledge of EPEX SPOT, EEX, ENTSO-E, and short-term market operations.
• Excellent analytical, numerical, and communication skills with the ability to simplify complex subjects.
• Fluency in German and English (spoken and written).
• A proactive, commercially aware mindset and a collaborative approach to teamwork.
• Confidence in using social media and communicating publicly about market developments.
• Willingness to travel within Europe for events, meetings, and customer engagement.

Why Join Montel

• Join a high-growth, international organisation shaping how news, energy data and analytics drive market understanding.
• Collaborate with a supportive team of analysts, software developers, communications professionals, and sales experts.
• Influence the evolution of products that are trusted by Europe's leading market participants.
• Enjoy flexibility, autonomy, and opportunities for professional and personal development.

Apply now and help Montel explain, shape, and innovate within the German short-term power market.

About Montel

Montel is a fast-growing, independent supplier of information to the energy sector, focusing on news, data, and analytics. We are recognized as a trusted source of information, with 50+ journalists working to cover the markets and 50+ developers working on delivering first-class data to our customers.

Montel has an important role in the green transition, we do this by supporting companies with key decision-making tools, covering the rapidly changing energy markets. Customers of Montel are big energy consumers, energy producers, regulators, traders, consultants, authorities, media, and others.

Since its inception 30 years ago, Montel has been known for its friendly and sociable approach in doing business, creating a unique culture we proudly refer to as "hyggelig-hyggelig". (a Norwegian expression which encapsulates our ethos of generosity and friendliness).

In 2022, Montel became a part of Riverside, a global private equity firm. Co-owned with employees and founders, Montel drives an ambitious growth agenda.

Today, Montel counts more than 300 employees, and has offices spread across Europe. This brings along good opportunities for you to work with colleagues from different places in Europe to develop your skills and grow within the company.