Operations Commercial Manager

4 weeks ago


London ECM United Kingdom E UK PLC Full time

Base location – Nottingham, Coventry, or London

Salary – Competitive plus great benefits including a company car and private medical insurance

At E.ON, our UK Heat Networks business is a market leader in UK district heating, providing heat and services to customers homes and businesses from our energy centres and district heating networks. District heating is a rapidly growing industry playing a key role in achieving UK's net zero targets, transforming towns and cities for a more sustainable future.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Operations Contract Manager to join the Heat Networks Operations leadership team. You will be responsible for managing our contractual position for Heat Network operations schemes, working directly with strategic clients and developers to ensure commercial obligations are met, whilst managing emerging risks. You will lead a team overseeing bespoke Energy Service contracts in the context of industry developments such as regulation and decarbonisation, mastering complex contractual conditions and working cross-functionally in a fast paced environment to realise opportunities and optimise E.ON's position in the market.

This exciting role sits across our EIS pillar, which means you'll support a variety of UK Solutions businesses including City Energy Solutions, Business 2 Business and Residential Solutions and will also have the opportunity to work with other countries within the E.ON Group.

If you're passionate about driving net zero and want to join a forward-thinking organisation where you can make a real difference, then we'd love to hear from you

Here's what you'll be doing

  • Leading a dynamic team of skilled contract managers to ensure contract delivery across 70+ ESCO Energy Service Company schemes.
  • Manage and prioritise the overall delivery of our bespoke contractual obligations for our ESCO portfolio
  • Identify commercial optimisation and/or risk mitigation opportunities within existing contracts and deliver programme of works
  • Work with Sales & Commercial teams to build scalable and profitable business propositions and identify opportunities to unlock and protect future value.
  • Build and maintain client relationships on a portfolio basis by understanding the needs of the client, customer and business and formulate commercial strategies to meet these needs
  • Identify and drive commercial management through proven tools, models, techniques, and knowledge drawing on other markets where relevant.
  • Drive and influence contractual and commercial negotiations forward and ensure the best outcome for customers and E.ON
  • Influence continual internal process improvement to ensure our business is growing and developing and utilising data and resources effectively to meet customer needs
  • Communicate risks and opportunities with senior leadership and influence internal teams to support where required
  • Understand industry legislation, regulations and latest market trends and how they impact the operational business and our contractual obligations
  • Feed into financial forecasting and evaluation processes
What we need from you
  • Proven record of commercial contract management
  • Advanced stakeholder management with excellent negotiation, influencing and communication skills
  • Experience in identifying and acting on commercial opportunities and/or risk mitigation from concept to delivery, taking an holistic cross-business approach
  • Ability to problem solve at ease and prioritise workload at a department level
  • Experience of managing a portfolio of projects whilst balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders both internally and externally at all levels
  • Strong experience in people management and leading a team of individuals to achieve results in a fast-paced environment
  • Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across multiple teams
  • An advocate for change with prior experience in driving change through ways of working, and continuous improvement

It would be great if you had

  • Financial or legal experience
  • Working knowledge of the District Heating industry, or long term contractual operations in an energy context
  • An understanding of City Energy Solutions, an understanding of the markets, value chains and policy developments
Here's what else you need to know

Base location – Nottingham, Coventry, or London

Salary – Competitive plus great benefits including a company car and private medical insurance

Our market-leading benefits package includes 26 days holiday + bank holidays, a generous pension scheme, life cover, bonus and the chance to choose from 20 flexible benefits with tax and/or NI savings. In fact, our benefits package recently won the Personnel Today Reward, Recognition and Benefits Award 2022 As the only energy company to feature in The Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers (our current ranking is 8th) we've proven that we're committed to equal opportunities and actively promote a diverse and inclusive working environment, and fairness for everyone.

We realise the best people bring their energy at different times, so we're happy to talk flexible working and offer a range of flexible working options, including full time, part time and job share.

As a Disability Confident Employer we interview every disabled applicant who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

We've exciting opportunities for everyone to develop their talent at E.ON. Our open access, inclusive talent networks provide networking, learning and development for all, building your skills, qualifications, and capabilities throughout your career.


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