Director - Power Systems and Grid Transformation

About the role

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Company Description:</strong> Systemiq is a system-change company committed to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement by transforming markets and business models across five key systems: nature and food, materials and circularity, energy, urban areas, and sustainable finance.</p> <p>As a certified B Corp, we combine strategic advisory with high-impact, on-the-ground work, partnering with business, finance, policymakers and civil society to deliver system change. With offices across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, we are dedicated exclusively to sustainability-focused work.</p> <p></p> <p>&nbsp;</p></div><p></p> <p><strong>Director, Power Systems &amp; Grid Transformation</strong></p> <p><strong>Location:</strong> Amsterdam ( preferred), or London <br><strong>Reports to:</strong> Eveline Speelman, Global Energy Platform Lead<br><strong>Role type:</strong> Full-time</p> <p><strong>Role Overview</strong></p> <p>Systemiq is seeking a Director with deep expertise in power system transformation, with a particular focus on grids, system planning, flexibility, market design, utility transformation, and the integration of renewables at scale.</p> <p>This role will help clients address some of the most critical bottlenecks in the energy transition: grid constraints, connection queues, system adequacy, flexibility markets, transmission and distribution investment, regulatory reform, and the changing role of utilities and system operators.</p> <p>This is not a generalist energy transition role. We are looking for a senior strategy leader who understands how power systems actually work technically, commercially, and institutionally, and who can help clients unlock the grid, market, and system integration challenges now slowing the transition.</p> <p>This is a senior leadership role combining:</p> <ul> <li>Deep power systems expertise</li> <li>Top-tier strategy problem solving</li> <li>Origination and senior client leadership</li> <li>Delivery of complex, multi-stakeholder programmes</li> <li>Team leadership and platform-building</li> </ul> <p>You will work closely with Eveline Speelman and global partners to build Systemiq’s work on power system transformation, with a particular focus on grids, flexibility, market design, utilities, and system-level decarbonisation.</p> <p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p> <p><strong>Power Systems &amp; Grid Transformation</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead work on power system transformation, including grid constraints, transmission and distribution investment, system planning, flexibility, renewables integration, and utility transformation.</li> <li>Advise clients on the strategic, regulatory, commercial, and institutional choices needed to accelerate power system decarbonisation.</li> <li>Translate technical power system challenges into clear strategic recommendations for senior decision-makers.</li> <li>Identify the practical barriers slowing power system transformation and shape interventions to overcome them.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Strategic Advisory</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead high-impact strategy engagements with corporates, governments, investors, utilities, system operators, and other energy system actors.</li> <li>Structure and solve complex, ambiguous problems and translate them into actionable recommendations.</li> <li>Advise senior stakeholders, including C-suite leaders and policymakers, on transition pathways, investment priorities, and market-shaping decisions.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Systems Change &amp; Platform Leadership</strong></p> <ul> <li>Shape and drive system-level interventions beyond individual projects, including coalitions, market-shaping initiatives, and public-private collaboration.</li> <li>Identify structural bottlenecks across policy, infrastructure, regulation, market design, and capital allocation.</li> <li>Work across sectors and stakeholders to unlock system-wide impact beyond project-level outcome

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