Resource Planning Strategist

Responsibilities

• Champions a corporate culture that emphasizes transparency, integrity, safety, environmental responsibility, employee development, sense of belonging, customer service, and operational excellence.
• Lead development and coordination of portfolio scenarios, including base case and sensitivities, to support IRP, regulatory filings, and strategic decisions.
• Align cross-functional inputs (generation, transmission, fuels, markets, new customer loads) to ensure consistent assumptions and a single source of truth for planning.
• Bridge near-term operational constraints with long-term planning to ensure portfolio options are feasible, operable, and compliant.
• Quantify and communicate portfolio risks, including market, policy, accreditation, interconnection, fuel, and cost uncertainties.
• Maintain and manage portfolio inputs, assumptions, and decision artifacts to enable consistent and transparent analysis.
• Coordinate interconnection and deliverability strategy for new resources and large load additions, including queue risks and timing implications.
• Evaluate emerging resource options and technologies to ensure assumptions reflect performance, siting, and system integration needs.
• Track MISO market and policy developments and incorporate impacts into portfolio planning and scenario analysis.
• Lead cross-functional planning efforts to align resource development with transmission strategy and project execution timelines.
• Develop decision-ready materials linking scenario results to key drivers, risks, and tradeoffs for leadership and regulatory use.

Requirements

• Required Education, Skills & Experience
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, Engineering, or related field
• 5+ years experience in one or more energy utility areas including operations, project management, engineering, analytics, and/or ISO portfolio management
• Ability to negotiate and influence with a consultative approach
• Strong knowledge of leading practices for their practice area with preference for experience in resource planning, ISO market, portfolio management, portfolio analysis and/or production cost modeling
• Willingness and ability to learn new technologies on the job
• Experienced and knowledgeable Excel user
• Capable of learning third party modeling software and developing internal tools within Resource Planning org
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex results to technical and non-technical audiences, including developing reporting and presentations for Sr. management
• Proficient at functioning effectively within a team environment, present ideas and opinions in a respective and collegial manner
• Progression to this level is strictly restricted based on critical individual capabilities and business requirements; must be supported by market survey data
• Key Competencies
• BEHAVIORAL
• Building Organizational Talent*
• Building Partnerships
• Leading Teams
• Business Acumen
• Communication
• Courage
• Building Self-Insight
• Building Talent*
• Driving for Results
• Energizing the Organization
• Driving Execution
• Building Trusting Relationships
• Driving Innovation
• Planning and Organizing
• Safety
• Establishing Strategic Direction
• TECHNICAL
• Analytical skills, capable of risk analysis and quantifying scenarios supporting decisions and recommendations
• ISO market function and design
• Strategic planning within a regulated utility
• Uses analytics tools (BI, statistical methods)
• May perform other duties as needed.
• Salary dependent on experience, skills, education, and training.

Additional Information

At Cleco, we're not just powering lives-we're powering a cleaner, smarter future for Louisiana. With bold investments in innovative energy solutions, we're transforming how we power our communities: smarter, cleaner, and more sustainable. This is a long-term commitment to our people and our communities because our future-and the future of generations to come-depends on it. If you're ready to make an impact where it matters most, join us at Cleco- where we're Energizing Your Tomorrow. The Resource Planning Strategist leads development and evaluation of Cleco's resource portfolio strategy by building, coordinating, and stress-testing base case and alternative planning scenarios. This role integrates inputs across operations, transmission, fuels, markets, and corporate development to ensure portfolio options are feasible, aligned, and risk-informed. The Strategist ensures resource plans support load growth, regulatory requirements, and long-term system reliability while improving transparency, consistency, and speed of decision-making across the Resource Planning function.

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