Capspire Jobs in Usa

Role Overview:

The Managing Director - Advisory Lead is a senior leadership role responsible for building, scaling, and leading capSpire’s Advisory practice across North America.

Reporting to the Global Head of Advisory, this role carries primary accountability for Advisory growth in the region, including pipeline creation, senior client relationships, and shaping repeatable Advisory offerings that pull through broader capSpire services.

The core accountability of this role is to further expand the North American Advisory business. This includes:

• Creating and converting early-stage client conversations into Advisory engagements
• Establishing capSpire as a trusted advisor at the executive level (Trading, Risk, Operations, Technology)
• Ensuring Advisory work is team-based, repeatable, and commercially sound
• Developing talent and leadership capacity beneath you to support sustained growth

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and own the North American Advisory pipeline, converting early conversations into structured Advisory engagements.
• Develop and cultivate long-term, trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders (e.g. Heads of Trading, Risk, Operations, CIO/CTO).
• Shape Advisory propositions that address real client challenges across the commodity trading industry.
• Partner closely with other Practice Areas and commercial teams within capSpire to create pull-through opportunities.
• Lead, mentor, and manage a geographically distributed Advisory team, ensuring strong performance, professional development, and a consistent culture across regions.
• Lead or oversee complex Advisory engagements across multiple clients, ensuring outcomes are clear, pragmatic, and aligned to client priorities.
• Maintain quality, consistency, and intellectual integrity across all Advisory work.
• Contribute to capSpire’s market positioning through thought leadership, client events, and targeted content.
• Represent capSpire Advisory externally as a credible, practitioner-led voice in commodity trading and technology transformation.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field (Master’s degree preferred).
• 14+ years of experience across commodity trading, energy markets, and/or trading technology.
• Proven experience leading Advisory or consulting engagements at the senior client level.
• Strong understanding of trading organizations, the trade lifecycle, risk management, and supporting technology landscapes (including C/ETRM).
• Demonstrated ability to originate, shape, and convert consulting opportunities.
• Experience leading and developing consulting teams across geographies.
• Credibility with both business and technology leaders.
• Strong leadership, client-facing, and communication skills, with the ability to build and sustain trusted relationships.
• Established network within the commodity trading industry.

This job description is intended to outline the primary duties, qualifications, and expectations of this role. The specific responsibilities and requirements may vary based on organizational needs and industry standards.

About the capSpire team:

At capSpire, our people-first culture is at the core of everything we do. To understand who we are, it’s important to first understand what we’re not: replaceable. Every member of our team is selected thoughtfully and with intention. We believe that finding the right fit matters more than a long list of credentials—and that people come first, titles second.

Because we hire the capSpire way, our team is truly one of a kind. We’ve brought together exceptional talent that collaborates closely to deliver clean, innovative solutions for our clients. This approach has led to meaningful opportunities, including work with many Fortune 500 organizations across energy and commodity markets. Our culture of trust, open communication, and shared success lays the foundation for long-lasting, fulfilling careers—along with a genuine habit of celebrating one another’s wins.

capSpire is a global consulting and solutions firm focused exclusively on commodity-centric businesses. Operating at the intersection of markets, trading, and technology, we help clients solve complex, high-impact challenges through vendor-independent expertise and deep credibility in trading technology. We partner with our clients to define the right problems early, make better decisions faster, and translate strategy into executable change.

Tell me about my job. 

Better insights are in sight, and you’ll take an active role in leading the way. Your main role will be to analyze the system design and provide consulting support, but you’ll also gain insight into clients’ strategic business directions, issues, and project goals. Consider yourself a liaison between client/user-functionality and our developers – translating specific configuration needs into actionable tasks, all while critiquing business processes and objectives. As a Functional Consultant, your main goal is ensuring that the system is a helpful tool to support business objectives. 

The Non-Negotiables: 

• Experience within Openlink Endur or similar ETRM, specifically in a functional consulting capacity, backed with strong industry knowledge (i.e. agriculture).
• Significant experience working in the Power, Oil and Gas Industry or relevant consulting implementation experience
• Ability to understand supply chain, commodity lifecycles, and financial systems and how they help solve complex business problems for specific markets.
• Ability to validate software solutions to meet business needs and ensure quality implementations
• Someone who is interested in learning different client scenarios and environments and wants to help each client with their unique business needs in E/CTRM.
• Experience with training and enabling junior team members
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Consultative, creative, problem-solving approach
• BS in Accounting, Information Systems, Finance, Economics, Engineering or equivalent.  

Nice to Have: 

• Understanding of financial and physical instruments used in the Power, Gas or Ags businesses
• Experience working in Power, Risk, or Front Office environments
• Understanding of Endur Reporting architecture, including understanding of core Risk simulation results, Report Builder, TPM, DMS and EOD Workflows
• Experience with Endur deployment procedures including CMM import export and DevOps
• Good knowledge of the Endur data model for transactional data and static data.
• Knowledge of the Endur application in the following areas: Deal Entry, Operations Services, Events, Back Office data generation and workflow processing.
• Ability to design and implement curves (Forward and Market) for pricing and valuation

Responsibilities: 

• Provide industry and functional advice and troubleshooting in the discovery workshop, design, implementation, testing, and production support of the Openlink Endur solution for the client’s business needs
• Contribute and support the deliverables of the technical consultants by providing business guidance, review, testing, and validation of the results
• Participate in implementation, upgrade and support projects
• Provide client training services in the product and business processes
• Provide guidance to Business in one or more areas of Openlink Endur configuration and in one or more energy commodities

About the capSpire team:

To understand who our people are, you should first understand what they’re not: replaceable. Each member of the team is chosen carefully and with intention. We believe that finding the right fit is more important than a laundry list of credentials – and that people are people first, and titles second. 

Because we hire the capSpire way, our team is certainly one of a kind. We’ve brought together incredible talent that regularly collaborates to create clean, fresh solutions. That effort has led to remarkable opportunities, including work with many Fortune 500 clients. We’ve found that the winning combination of exciting achievements, trust in one another and open communication lays the groundwork for long-lasting, successful careers. That, and the fact that we clap for each other at every opportunity.