Head of Trading

3 weeks ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom Crown Commercial Service Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 276705**Salary**:

- £64,218 - £71,183- (with an additional technical allowance of £15,000 applied based on experience and time spent in role)**Job grade**:

- Grade 6- Band 6**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Other**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Birmingham, LiverpoolAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Crown Commercial Service has retained The Utility Market Experts (TUME) to exclusively advise on this appointment. This hire is being advertised in-line with Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles of ensuring all hires are undertaken following a fair, open and merit-based process.

**Would you like to use your energy trading expertise for public good and lead an expert team within CCS who manage one of the biggest portfolio’s outside the industry itself? Come and help us manage the >£2bn commodity exposure for central government and wider public sector.**

**Job Summary**

The Head of Trading position is a key leadership role within the business and the post holder will be tasked to ensure that portfolios are effectively managed at both a strategic and operational level to deliver value for money. The role will also be pivotal in driving new products and services, including a possible expansion into other commodities, and developing hedging strategies with a 20 year time horizon via Power Purchase Agreements.

The post holder will work with strategic stakeholders and experts across the public and private sector to give confidence in our credibility, retain our portfolio in a competitive landscape, and grow our business to deliver greater commercial benefits. The ability to build strong personal working relationships is crucial to the effectiveness of the role. The post holder will provide technical knowledge and support to the overall energy team.

**Team Summary**

The Energy team currently manages an annual £2.4bn electricity and gas spend on behalf of more than 1100 customers. At the time of writing, it can have commodity spend under management of approximately £3bn+ when forward years are factored in. Within the Energy team, we have a Trading team established to manage market exposure in line with strategies agreed with our external governance board. Trading is conducted for both aggregated portfolios and for individual organisations.

**Job description**:
**Key Accountabilities**:

- Accountable for leadership, management, and performance of the Trading team
- Prudent Operator - ensuring CCS Trading acts prudently at all times, complying with all applicable requirements and fulfilling its obligations to its customers
- Responsible for the continued development of the trading and risk teams skills and capabilities, ensuring the team has the rights capability, capacity, tools, and systems to undertake activities
- Ensure public sector price risk is managed effectively against strategies
- Be a part of the Energy leadership team and therefore play a leading role in the content and implementation of the Energy strategy and developing our people and capabilities
- Lead the Trading team ensuring best in class service
- Drive forward strategic objectives such as expansion into new commodities and alternative arrangements to manage budgets (i.e. power purchase agreements)
- Responsible for developing and maintaining relevant industry networks to support the overall delivery of the business strategy and business development
- Ownership of trading-related key supplier and customer relationships
- Responsible for trading team business planning and costs

**Person specification**:

- Proven leadership qualities in a fast-paced environment
- Demonstrable trading experience with delivery of excellent performance in energy markets
- Experience of translating customer / stakeholder requirements into delivery / solutions
- Understanding of applicable policies (i.e. government or organisational), regulatory and compliance requirements and their impact on a product or service
- Significant experience of successfully influencing and managing strategic stakeholders at all levels using excellent communication skills.
- Demonstrable experience of developing trading agreements with customers and advise on technical / contractual arrangements with wider stakeholders

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Leadership
- Communicating and Influencing
- Making Effective Decisions
- Seeing the Big Picture

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

- Trading experience in energy markets
- Developing and/or delivering solutions for stakeholders

**Benefits**:
**What we will offer you, here are some of the benefits you can expect**:

- Competitive salary
- Generous pension scheme
- A discretionary non-contractual performance related bonu

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