DATA ASSOCIATE

Open Position :

Foresight is hiring a Data Associate! Foresight serves commercial and industrial clients throughout their sustainability journeys.

We offer a wide variety of services to help clients manage energy and emission-related data, report on product and building-related performance, and ultimately improve and decrease the climate-related impacts of their business activities.

One portion of this work involves a software service to manage the building, energy, and emission-related data.

This position will be responsible for extracting data from invoices and other structured documents and entering that information into Foresights software and Excel.

Candidates will be trained to understand utility invoices and other source data formats for context and relevance and will assist in the initial setup of data extraction formats.

Candidates will also be required to communicate with clients to retrieve information to update records.

Job Title

Data Associate

Compensation

$45 - $50K, based on experience.

Location

We are headquartered in Grand Rapids MI and provide a flexible hybrid work environment oriented around results and teamwork

Desired Qualifications :

• High attention to detail
• Aptitude and appetite for learning
• Strong time management and organizational skills
• Comfortable working within computer systems
• Data processing needs and trade-offs
• Basic Proficiency in Excel (Sorting, Filtering, Tables, etc.)

Preferred but not required :

Understanding of unit conversions (volume, weight, energy, etc.)

Responsibilities :

• Data Entry and quality verification using Foresights Software Tools
• Monitoring and updating client data completeness
• Request missing information as needed from clients and Foresight team members
• Supporting new client onboarding as needed
• Processing data from PDF files, Excel files, emails, and other electronic documents
• Troubleshooting account / meter issues and escalating as needed

Purpose

Foresight Management exists to champion energy management, accelerate sustainability, and increase profitability for our customers.

Mission

Individual Vitality The individual well-being of our team members directly impacts our ability to achieve greatness.

Each member of our team will be treated with respect, and dignity, and will be empowered to make an impact on our company.

Our team members will be given opportunities for self-improvement, and learning, and will become increasingly self-aware and aware of others.

Our teammates will have real autonomy over various aspects of their work and be given the freedom to create and innovate in their own ways.

Our environment will enable team members to pursue greatness in their individual roles as we collectively pursue excellence, celebrate success, and foster healthy accountability.

Long-Term Partnerships The quality of the relationship we build with our clients is vital to our success. We pursue long-term partnerships with companies and individuals by listening, asking great questions, and exercising empathy.

Upon understanding our clients goals and problems, we work to earn their trust by setting realistic expectations and exceeding those expectations in every manner possible.

Simply getting the job done is not acceptable. To truly build long-term partnerships, we must wow our customers.

Growth Mindset Our process begins with asking great questions and challenging the status quo. From there, we innovate and create improved ways of working, and finally, we commit to executing our improved plan with excellence and perfection in mind.

We then begin the discovery process all over again in an effort to continuously disrupt our own methods and thinking. Although perfection cannot be fully attained, we choose to chase it relentlessly in every aspect of our work.

Values

Enthusiasm - lively interest, intense emotionalism, a break with status quo

We believe insights, capacity, guidance, and expertise are qualities our team brings to our clients. Those valuable attributes are often not enough to inspire action.

Genuine enthusiasm is contagious and the special ingredient we bring to our clients creates momentum and inspiring action.

Curiosity - the desire to learn and be inquisitive

We believe the foundation of all innovation is, in its most basic form, a spirit of curiosity and the continual adoption of a beginners mindset.

Our willingness and capacity to be inquisitive empower us to build trust with teammates and clients. Curiosity enables a sense of wonder and humility, ultimately exposing opportunities to serve others in more impactful ways.

Vulnerability - uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure

We believe great ideas can come from anywhere and anyone. Regardless of title, position, industry experience, expertise, or seniority at the company.

We value candor, feedback, questioning, and tough love from all teammates. Our pursuit is an environment where each individual feels safe enough to be vulnerable and valued enough to be heard.

We commit to the pursuit of Getting it right, not Being Right.

Competitive Greatness - to strive to outdo, to engage

In order to fulfill our purpose and mission, we believe we must compete individually and as a team. John Wooden in his pyramid of success lists Competitive Greatness at the top of the pyramid and says, Competitive Greatness is having a real love for the hard battle knowing it offers the opportunity to be at your best when your best is required.

We strive to embrace a challenge and compete against good enough.

Principles

Interdisciplinary

We take an interdisciplinary approach to energy and sustainability management. We integrate design, engineering, contracting, project management, consulting, data analytics, business analytics, and marketing, and have developed our own software for data management.

Our unique blend of expertise allows us to partner with organizations in a variety of ways in order to help them achieve their goals and meet their needs.

Holistic

We have expertise in both the supply side and demand side of energy management, energy efficiency, sustainability, and cost mitigation opportunities.

We understand how interconnected all these disciplines are and help our clients develop optimal solutions that take all factors into account.

Unbiased Expertise

We are our clients trusted advisor and take an agnostic approach to items such as technology, manufacturers, suppliers, and installers.

Our priorities are the priorities of our customers. We develop options that fit within their constraints so they can make the best actionable decisions possible.

ROI Driven

Profit is positive. When sustainability and energy initiatives are done well, they are profitable endeavors in both the short and long-term.

We work to help our clients understand the direct and indirect financial benefits of adopting sustainable business practices.

Transparent

Transparency is transformational. As we help our clients pursue sustainability through adopting transparent business practices, we work to fully embrace transparency ourselves.

Making complex language easy to read, complex data simple to understand, and complex issues approachable and digestible is paramount to our clients success.

We choose to adopt an abundance mindset, which means showing our clients exactly how and why we do our work as well as how we charge for it.

About

Foresight Management is a leading tech-enabled consulting firm dedicated to the identification, design, and implementation of Sustainability and Energy Management initiatives for a growing international clientele.

We provide energy and sustainability research, ESG data solutions, cost optimization, project design, and project management services that advance a companys integration of sustainable development principles into its business model.