ResourcePlanningStrategist

**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. **Key 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 enab