Portfolio Management Intern

As an NRG employee, we encourage you to take charge of your career and development journey. We invite you to explore exciting opportunities across our businesses. You'll find that our dynamic work environment provides variety and challenge. Your growth is key to our ongoing success-take the lead in shaping your career development, goals and future!

Summer Internship Program

Our 10-week program is designed to increase future employment potential for prospects while providing a valuable resource to the business. This Summer Internship will appeal to proactive and self-motivated college juniors/seniors with a genuine desire to learn about the energy business and industry. During the internship, candidates will work on real projects and have real responsibilities. NRG aims to help candidates build strengths, gain skills that can be transferred to any workplace, and stand out from the crowd.

Ideal Candidate

This Intern role within the organization is a Portfolio Management Intern based in Houston, TX. NRG is looking for self-driven, high-caliber individuals who can grasp complex commercial issues and harness information to deliver solutions. In return, NRG will provide the support, guidance, and opportunities to help our ideal candidate be successful. As the emerging talent and a valuable future asset, NRG seeks to help candidates make significant impact, inspire people, and provide exceptional customer service.

Portfolio Management Intern Responsibilities include:

• Assist in pricing and product optimization projects
• Be involved in a variety of strategic initiatives including process improvement, product development and/or sales analytics
• Assist with the financial budget/forecast process
• Building Excel and VBA based tools and models to promote safe and transparent automation
• Utilize SQL and Databricks to extract, transform, and analyze large datasets to support pricing, forecasting, and portfolio insights
• Knowledge sharing

NRG Interns need to be able to demonstrate the following behaviors:

• Build and maintain effective working relationships; Communicate/collaborate effectively
• Have a positive impact through self-awareness and social skills
• Deliver excellent customer service
• Take initiative and set high standards for self
• Look at the bigger picture and recognize the impact of your actions
• Learn from experience to perform in new or changing situations
• Focus energy on what will make a difference and deliver exceptionally
• Analytical and problem-solving skills with aptitude for programming and automation.

Minimum Qualifications

• Degree discipline: Business / Finance / Sales
• Must have completed second year of college with a 3.0 GPA or higher
• Must be eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship
• NRG and its subsidiaries are an Equal Opportunity Employer - EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability

Working Conditions

• Open office environment
• Primary Location of Employment: Houston, TX
• Based on placement, location, the schedule of your work week will be a hybrid work schedule: a combination of remote work and in-office per team needs

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability. Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.

Official description on file with Talent.