Associate – India (Ammonia & Industrial Decarbonisation)

Location: New Delhi, India
Contract: 12-month fixed-term contract, with path to permanent employment

Our Energy Platform designs and implements corporate and country decarbonisation strategies, promotes emerging clean technologies and green technology clusters, and supports the global energy transition at speed and scale. With a growing footprint in India, we are working at the forefront of one of the world’s most consequential energy transitions.

With around 350 people across offices in London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Jakarta, Paris, São Paulo, Nairobi and New York, we are a diverse, mission-driven team united by a shared conviction to accelerate the transition to a sustainable global economy.

Role Overview

Systemiq is seeking a motivated and analytically strong Associate to support the delivery of a flagship initiative aimed at catalysing India’s first wave of low-emissions ammonia investment and accelerating the decarbonisation of the fertiliser sector.

This role sits at the intersection of research, analysis, and stakeholder engagement. The successful candidate will work closely with the Programme Director and Systemiq’s global teams to contribute rigorous analytical outputs, support stakeholder processes, and help build the evidence base for market-shaping decisions.

Working alongside the Programme Director and local partners (including CEEW), the Associate will contribute to both day-to-day delivery and longer-term programme strategy — building skills in energy systems analysis, coalition management, and climate policy.

This is an excellent opportunity for a professional with 3–6 years of experience who is eager to deepen their expertise in industrial decarbonisation and contribute to one of India’s most important climate transitions.

Key Responsibilities

Research & Analysis

• Conduct techno-economic analysis and literature reviews to support programme workstreams on low-emissions ammonia and fertiliser decarbonisation
• Contribute to the development of investment cases, market assessments, and pathway modelling
• Synthesise complex data and insights into clear, actionable outputs for both internal and external audiences
• Use AI and digital research tools to accelerate synthesis and insight generation

Programme Delivery Support

• Support the Programme Director in managing workplans, timelines, and milestones across a multi-year initiative
• Prepare and maintain high-quality documentation, presentations, and reports
• Track programme progress and flag risks or delivery issues in a timely manner
• Coordinate logistics and preparation for stakeholder meetings, workshops, and events

Stakeholder & Coalition Support

• Assist in building and managing relationships with government ministries, fertiliser producers, project developers, and financial institutions
• Support the design and facilitation of coalition structures and working groups
• Prepare briefings, meeting notes, and follow-up materials for senior stakeholder engagements

India Platform Contribution

• Provide on-the-ground support to Systemiq’s growing India presence
• Contribute to internal knowledge management and organisational learning on India’s energy transition
• Support business development and opportunity identification as directed by the Programme Director

Essential Experience

• 3–6 years of experience in strategy consulting, energy, climate, research, or a related analytical field
• Experience in top-tier strategy consulting background is strongly preferred – McKinsey, BCG, Bain
• Demonstrated ability to produce high-quality quantitative and qualitative analysis under time pressure
• Experience contributing to complex projects or programmes in multi-stakeholder environments
• Some exposure to energy systems, industrial sectors, climate policy, or related domains
• Familiarity with applying AI tools to research, synthesis, and data analysis

Core Capabilities

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with an ability to work from first principles
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to distil complex analysis into accessible outputs
• High attention to detail and commitment to quality across all deliverables
• Proactive, collaborative working style with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously
• Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and taking initiative

Additional Experience

• Understanding of India’s energy, industrial, or policy landscape
• Exposure to fertiliser, ammonia, hydrogen, or broader power-to-x value chains
• Experience working across public, private, or non-profit sectors
• Familiarity with climate finance, carbon markets, or sustainable investment frameworks

What This Role Offers

• Opportunity to contribute to a high-impact initiative critical to India’s energy transition and food system resilience
• Direct exposure to senior policymakers, industry leaders, and financial institutions
• Mentorship and development within a high-performing, mission-driven team
• A clear pathway for progression within Systemiq’s growing India platform
• A collaborative, global work environment with diverse programmes, offices and relationships around the world

Programme Director – India (Ammonia & Industrial Decarbonisation)

Location: New Delhi, India
Contract: 12-month fixed-term contract via Employer of Record (EoR), with the intention for permanent employment as Systemiq expands further in region

Our Energy Platform designs and implements corporate and country decarbonisation strategies, promotes emerging clean technologies and green technology clusters, and supports the global energy transition at speed and scale. With a growing footprint in India, we are working at the forefront of one of the world's most consequential energy transitions.

With around 300 people across offices in London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Jakarta, Paris, São Paulo and New York, we are a diverse, mission-driven team united by a shared conviction to accelerate the transition to a sustainable global economy.

Role Overview

Systemiq is seeking an entrepreneurial and execution-focused Programme Director to lead and shape a flagship initiative aimed at catalysing India’s first wave of low-emissions ammonia investment and accelerating the decarbonisation of the fertiliser sector.

This role sits at the intersection of programme delivery and market development. The successful candidate will not only lead a complex, multi-stakeholder initiative but also use it as a platform to build relationships, originate new opportunities, and contribute to establishing Systemiq’s long-term presence in India.

Working closely with Systemiq’s global teams and local partners (including CEEW), the Programme Director will act as the on-the-ground hub for delivery, stakeholder engagement, and market shaping across government, industry, and finance.

This is a high-autonomy role suited to candidates who are comfortable operating in ambiguity, building from first principles, and taking ownership of both execution and growth.

Key Responsibilities

Programme Leadership & Delivery

• Lead the design and delivery of a multi-year initiative focused on low-emissions ammonia and fertiliser sector decarbonisation in India
• Define programme strategy, workplans, milestones, and analytical approach
• Oversee high-quality analytical outputs, including techno-economic assessments and investment cases
• Ensure delivery against impact objectives, timelines, and stakeholder expectations

Market Development & Business Origination

• Identify, shape, and originate follow-on opportunities linked to the programme
• Build and maintain a pipeline of potential engagements across industry, finance, and policy stakeholders
• Convert relationships and insights into funded programmes, partnerships, or commercial work

Stakeholder & Coalition Leadership

• Build and manage senior relationships across government ministries, fertiliser producers, project developers, and financial institutions
• Design and lead coalition structures, including defining vision, governance, and engagement models
• Represent Systemiq externally in high-level forums, discussions, and partnerships

Team Leadership

• Manage and develop a small, high-performing team, including 1–2 Systemiq staff (potentially rotating or relocating to India) and a locally hired Associate
• Set clear priorities, provide coaching, and ensure high standards of delivery across the team
• Contribute to hiring and onboarding of additional India-based team members as the platform scales

India Platform Development

• Work in close partnership with Systemiq leadership to shape and scale the organisation’s presence in India
• Provide on-the-ground insight into market dynamics, opportunities, and risks
• Contribute to longer-term strategy, team build-out, and positioning in the region

Essential Experience

• 10+ years of experience in strategy consulting, energy, climate, infrastructure, or related sectors
• Strong track record of leading complex programmes or workstreams in high-performance environments
• Demonstrated experience engaging and influencing senior stakeholders across government, industry, or finance
• Proven ability to originate and develop opportunities into funded work, partnerships, or programmes
• Deep understanding of energy systems, industrial decarbonisation, or adjacent sectors
• Experience applying AI tools to research, synthesis, and insight generation

Core Capabilities

• Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking, with the ability to connect detailed analysis to system-level insights
• High level of ownership and comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-evolving environments
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to influence senior audiences
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution
• Experience leading and developing high-performing teams

Additional Experience

• Deep, hands-on experience working in India’s energy, industrial, or policy landscape, with a strong local network across government, industry, and/or finance
• Exposure to fertiliser, ammonia, hydrogen, or broader power-to-x value chains
• Experience working across public, private, and non-profit sectors
• Familiarity with market-based mechanisms and climate finance structures

What This Role Offers

• Opportunity to lead a high-impact initiative critical to India’s energy transition and food system resilience
• A central role in shaping Systemiq’s long-term presence in one of the world’s most important transition markets
• Direct exposure to senior policymakers, industry leaders, and financial institutions
• Significant scope for career growth, including potential to shape future team and leadership structure in India
• A collaborative, mission-driven environment with global reach via our diverse programmes, offices and relationships around the world

Director, Power Systems & Grid Transformation

Location: Amsterdam ( preferred), or London
Reports to: Eveline Speelman, Global Energy Platform Lead
Role type: Full-time

Role Overview

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.

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.

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.

This is a senior leadership role combining:

• Deep power systems expertise
• Top-tier strategy problem solving
• Origination and senior client leadership
• Delivery of complex, multi-stakeholder programmes
• Team leadership and platform-building

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.

Key Responsibilities

Power Systems & Grid Transformation

• Lead work on power system transformation, including grid constraints, transmission and distribution investment, system planning, flexibility, renewables integration, and utility transformation.
• Advise clients on the strategic, regulatory, commercial, and institutional choices needed to accelerate power system decarbonisation.
• Translate technical power system challenges into clear strategic recommendations for senior decision-makers.
• Identify the practical barriers slowing power system transformation and shape interventions to overcome them.

Strategic Advisory

• Lead high-impact strategy engagements with corporates, governments, investors, utilities, system operators, and other energy system actors.
• Structure and solve complex, ambiguous problems and translate them into actionable recommendations.
• Advise senior stakeholders, including C-suite leaders and policymakers, on transition pathways, investment priorities, and market-shaping decisions.

Systems Change & Platform Leadership

• Shape and drive system-level interventions beyond individual projects, including coalitions, market-shaping initiatives, and public-private collaboration.
• Identify structural bottlenecks across policy, infrastructure, regulation, market design, and capital allocation.
• Work across sectors and stakeholders to unlock system-wide impact beyond project-level outcomes.
• Contribute to Systemiq’s broader Energy platform strategy and thought leadership.

Origination & Growth

• Identify, shape, and win new work across power systems, grids, utilities, flexibility, and energy transition topics.
• Build trusted relationships with senior clients, partners, and external stakeholders.
• Contribute to scaling Systemiq’s Energy platform globally.

Team Leadership

• Lead and mentor high-performing teams.
• Coach and develop team members, building capability in power systems, analytical problem solving, and systems-level thinking.
• Contribute to a collaborative, entrepreneurial, and mission-driven culture.

Candidate Profile

We are looking for a high-calibre, strategy-led leader with deep power systems expertise and the ability to operate at the intersection of strategy, policy, regulation, infrastructure, and real-economy delivery.

Essential Experience

• Deep experience in power systems, ideally including transmission and distribution grids, system operation, power market design, flexibility, renewables integration, storage, demand response, or utility strategy
• Around 10 to 15+ years’ experience in strategy consulting or energy advisory
• Experience working with or advising utilities, TSOs, DSOs, regulators, energy ministries, market operators, developers, infrastructure investors, or major energy users.
• Strong understanding of how grid constraints, interconnection, flexibility, storage, demand response, market reform, and regulation affect decarbonisation pathways.
• Ability to translate technical power system issues into strategic choices for senior decision-makers.
• Proven track record leading strategy engagements, complex programmes, and senior client relationships.
• Demonstrated ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders, including C-suite leaders, policymakers, regulators, and investors.
• Experience combining advisory work with real-world implementation is strongly valued.

Core Capabilities

• Exceptional problem structuring and analytical rigour.
• Strong commercial judgement and experience in origination and growth.
• Ability to move between high-level strategy and practical implementation.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Systems thinker focused on practical, scalable, real-world outcomes.
• Ability to lead complex work across multiple stakeholders, sectors, and geographies.

Desirable Experience

• Experience in international energy systems, infrastructure investment, large-scale transition programmes, or power market reform.
• Experience with digital, AI, or advanced analytical tools that improve insight generation, modelling, or delivery efficiency.
• Experience building new areas of work, propositions, or client relationships.

Mindset

• Entrepreneurial and opportunity-driven.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and building new areas of work.
• Collaborative, low ego, and mission-driven.
• Pragmatic, intellectually rigorous, and focused on real-world impact.

Why This Role Matters

Power systems are now one of the central constraints in the energy transition. Renewables, electrification, storage, flexibility, industrial decarbonisation, and clean technology deployment all depend on power systems evolving faster than they are today.

This role sits at the centre of that challenge. It will help clients and partners address the grid, market, regulatory, and institutional barriers that determine whether economy-wide decarbonisation can happen at the pace required.

Systemiq, the systems change company and certified B Corp, was founded to drive the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on climate change by transforming markets and business models in five key systems: nature and food, materials, and circular economy, energy, urban areas, and sustainable finance.

We are guided by the conviction that all system transformations are rooted in human transformations. We must continue to bring more diverse people and voices into real conversations to succeed. We know we don’t have all the answers; we may not even have all the right questions. But we know that open mindsets drive change, so relationships, people, and trust are at the heart of everything we do

We are looking to grow our global network of talented independent consultants with experience in consulting, professional services, and project management. As we frequently require contractors at short notice, we’re building a pool of trusted professionals to support our diverse and high-impact assignments aimed at driving system change worldwide.

With advanced problem-solving, analytical and relationship skills, you will be experienced working on consulting projects to deliver breakthrough insights, action and results. Ideally your background includes working at a leading management consultancy or in a strategy role in industry, public sector or civil society. You are keen to work in a small yet fast growing company where you can play a shaping role and make an impact.

We work with both global blue chip clients, public-private partnerships and ground-breaking new ventures. Recent initiatives include advising on circular economy in Germany, developing go-to-market strategies for new technologies as well as forest restoration and preventing ocean plastic pollution in South East Asia.

The high-performing contractors may be considered for a full-time position when an opportunity becomes available. 

Requirements

• Very strong analytical skills with high level of comfort and enthusiasm for building dynamic excel models and synthesising large data sets
• For Project Manager specific roles, you will have previous experience leading teams on strategy consulting projects
• Ability to work in a stand-alone capacity and deliver a defined output
• Strong problem solving and structuring skills, delivering intuitive presentations of complex data
• Intellectual curiosity and an interest to quickly dive into new topics,
• Skills and experience of relationship management on a senior level,
• Collaborative team player and can-do attitude,
• Entrepreneurial spirit with the ability to identify opportunities and new initiatives and to turn them into reality.

Director, Power Systems & Grid Transformation

Location: Amsterdam ( preferred), or London
Reports to: Eveline Speelman, Global Energy Platform Lead
Role type: Full-time

Role Overview

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.

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.

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.

This is a senior leadership role combining:

• Deep power systems expertise
• Top-tier strategy problem solving
• Origination and senior client leadership
• Delivery of complex, multi-stakeholder programmes
• Team leadership and platform-building

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.

Key Responsibilities

Power Systems & Grid Transformation

• Lead work on power system transformation, including grid constraints, transmission and distribution investment, system planning, flexibility, renewables integration, and utility transformation.
• Advise clients on the strategic, regulatory, commercial, and institutional choices needed to accelerate power system decarbonisation.
• Translate technical power system challenges into clear strategic recommendations for senior decision-makers.
• Identify the practical barriers slowing power system transformation and shape interventions to overcome them.

Strategic Advisory

• Lead high-impact strategy engagements with corporates, governments, investors, utilities, system operators, and other energy system actors.
• Structure and solve complex, ambiguous problems and translate them into actionable recommendations.
• Advise senior stakeholders, including C-suite leaders and policymakers, on transition pathways, investment priorities, and market-shaping decisions.

Systems Change & Platform Leadership

• Shape and drive system-level interventions beyond individual projects, including coalitions, market-shaping initiatives, and public-private collaboration.
• Identify structural bottlenecks across policy, infrastructure, regulation, market design, and capital allocation.
• Work across sectors and stakeholders to unlock system-wide impact beyond project-level outcomes.
• Contribute to Systemiq’s broader Energy platform strategy and thought leadership.

Origination & Growth

• Identify, shape, and win new work across power systems, grids, utilities, flexibility, and energy transition topics.
• Build trusted relationships with senior clients, partners, and external stakeholders.
• Contribute to scaling Systemiq’s Energy platform globally.

Team Leadership

• Lead and mentor high-performing teams.
• Coach and develop team members, building capability in power systems, analytical problem solving, and systems-level thinking.
• Contribute to a collaborative, entrepreneurial, and mission-driven culture.

Candidate Profile

We are looking for a high-calibre, strategy-led leader with deep power systems expertise and the ability to operate at the intersection of strategy, policy, regulation, infrastructure, and real-economy delivery.

Essential Experience

• Deep experience in power systems, ideally including transmission and distribution grids, system operation, power market design, flexibility, renewables integration, storage, demand response, or utility strategy
• Around 10 to 15+ years’ experience in strategy consulting or energy advisory
• Experience working with or advising utilities, TSOs, DSOs, regulators, energy ministries, market operators, developers, infrastructure investors, or major energy users.
• Strong understanding of how grid constraints, interconnection, flexibility, storage, demand response, market reform, and regulation affect decarbonisation pathways.
• Ability to translate technical power system issues into strategic choices for senior decision-makers.
• Proven track record leading strategy engagements, complex programmes, and senior client relationships.
• Demonstrated ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders, including C-suite leaders, policymakers, regulators, and investors.
• Experience combining advisory work with real-world implementation is strongly valued.

Core Capabilities

• Exceptional problem structuring and analytical rigour.
• Strong commercial judgement and experience in origination and growth.
• Ability to move between high-level strategy and practical implementation.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Systems thinker focused on practical, scalable, real-world outcomes.
• Ability to lead complex work across multiple stakeholders, sectors, and geographies.

Desirable Experience

• Experience in international energy systems, infrastructure investment, large-scale transition programmes, or power market reform.
• Experience with digital, AI, or advanced analytical tools that improve insight generation, modelling, or delivery efficiency.
• Experience building new areas of work, propositions, or client relationships.

Mindset

• Entrepreneurial and opportunity-driven.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and building new areas of work.
• Collaborative, low ego, and mission-driven.
• Pragmatic, intellectually rigorous, and focused on real-world impact.

Why This Role Matters

Power systems are now one of the central constraints in the energy transition. Renewables, electrification, storage, flexibility, industrial decarbonisation, and clean technology deployment all depend on power systems evolving faster than they are today.

This role sits at the centre of that challenge. It will help clients and partners address the grid, market, regulatory, and institutional barriers that determine whether economy-wide decarbonisation can happen at the pace required.