Archiviertes Projekt - Regulatory Monitoring Consultant - July 2024

For one of our clients we are looking for a Regulatory Monitoring Consultant for Sustainable Energy Solutions

Project name: Design of a Regulatory Monitoring Framework for client’s Innovation

Project description:
The Innovation department of our client is the spearhead of innovation (and to an extent, strategic and transformational) activities. The ambitious CO2-neutral roadmap 2035 was recently announced as part of the new strategy. The overall energy sector in Germany and more generally in Europe is going through a crisis putting in jeopardy the affordability of energy and security of supply, and consequently questioning the speed of energy climate neutrality. In this complex environment, the Government and regulatory institutions in Europe (to our concern namely German government and the European Commission) are adapting the current legislation that affects the energy sector and adjacent sectors (Industrial sector) in order for companies to navigate the difficult environment and continue its pathway towards the Energy transition. In this context, it is urgent and highly relevant that the Innovation department is up to date on the latest updates of the regulation that can / may affect our projects and potential businesses as well as opening opportunity spaces for new businesses. Given the speed of action, unstructured monitoring is not sufficient anymore, and we, therefore, need to establish a systematic approach to understand the different policies in place, and the changes and new policies being implemented (resulting in such regulatory framework).

Tasks:
-Define a regulatory monitoring framework that embeds the policies (regulations and legislations) in the EU and more specifically Germany – that affect any business model in our innovation portfolio that will be provided by the client in advance. Following our innovation focus areas, the goal is that the outcome has three different divisions / sub-project deliverables: one for renewable molecules/fuels, one for renewable power sources and batteries, and one for carbon management business models, but it follows a similar structure and format, that can be used as standard “product” across innovation areas and can thus be updated relatively easy in the future. In the definition, pay attention to the following:

-The goal of the developed framework is to provide structured criteria and KPIs, and the key information on each shortlisted policy, in order for an Innovation project manager to assess the essence of a EU/DE policy (new or updated policy) and be able to derive implications from it for our businesses (defined within the three areas mentioned above).

-Analyze and take into consideration the different stages of EU legislation in the energy sector and assess the implications of each policy according to this stage. Layout the key KPIs that need to be monitored in order to identify a threshold/tipping point when a policy, that currently has no direct/tangible implications, becomes impactful. Present results to client for a sign-off for further use.

-Develop the final product based on the information coming from the respective legal department, CCGR team, Innovation Managers, and the Radar team so that the final product can be reviewed by the client and signed-off so that the Radar team after the project can take over it. Goal of the task is to establish a process that translates the inputs from the legal department into triggers for action for the Innovation managers. Present results to the client for a sign-off for further use.

-Develop the final product, or he/she only has to give advice, provide suggestions and steer the process so that the above mentioned departments, teams and managers can develop this product? If the latter, please adjust the task accordingly so that the task is not ambiguous.

-Develop the framework based on own expertise and different information sources, and provide professional consultancy with regards to CO2 and green molecules projects to the client and with regards to expert interviews via external service providers Alphasights. Research into official regulatory documents, other market sources accessible to Innovation: HIS or Bloomberg, but also other sources based on own expertise in the field. Present results to client for a sign-off for further use.

-The goal after the completion of the above mentioned developed framework is to have an outcome produced which provides detailed information about the different policies that affect our businesses described in the previous point so that the project manager is able to form an opinion on the implications the policy has for each of the businesses pursued in innovation. Furthermore, another goal is that the Innovation department will be able to update the regulatory monitoring in a structured and resource-efficient way.

-Create an automated solution listing the policies (policies, regulations or directives) and assessing different elements for each policy: timeline, geographical scope, frequency of updates, business model impacted, taking elements of the client COODE program into consideration, which will be provided by client in advance. Present the automated solution to the client for a sign-off and for further use. Additionally, create a PowerPoint deck with the key messages of the study and the structure of the framework (in Excel or PowerBI) or any other format based on own professional expertise, as long as it addresses the right content and answers to the posed questions. Present the PowerPoint deck to Uniper for a sign-off and for further use.

-Create project documentation following Innovation standards (NDAs, LOIs or based on own expertise

-Moderate and document weekly project meetings online and prepare, conduct, consolidate and present results of remote workshops for the client internals based on own expertise and on the information coming from xx with the aim to identify project-related content on individual project needs within the regulatory framework.

-Provide professional consultancy to the responsible Innovation Manager for the Area on specific content in the topic of…, top management communication, and internal innovation communication based on own expertise.
Present the final outcome to the cross-disciplinary team using MS Office and MS Teams. The client signs-off all results of the developments and documentation.

Start: ASAP
Capacity: 32h/week
Location: remote
Duration: 6 months+