Commercial Manager - Renewable Energy

You’ll lead on designing and delivering new Renewable Energy Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) propositions and contract structures which drive value for OVO and our community of Renewable Generators. You’ll be the commercial brains behind identifying, designing and delivering new and exciting PPA structures. Working with our propositions teams, you will also support the design of innovative renewable energy propositions for our customers. In addition to providing commercial support to the wider Renewable Energy team as required you'll also be a vocal advocate for PPA propositions that deliver value to our generators and our business in prioritisation and decision making.

Your key outcomes will be

PPA Propositions

• Lead the commercial development of new PPA structures including working with the Origination team to identify market opportunities and ensure all new PPA structures meet generator and business needs.
• Lead the delivery of valuation and pricing models for new PPA contract structures.
• Project manage the delivery of new PPA structures including working with the wider renewable energy team to ensure that in life contract management processes are in place.
• Lead the smooth transition of new PPA structures into BAU operations.

Consumer Propositions

• Be the Renewable Energy expert working with our wider propositions teams to deliver innovative customer facing renewable energy propositions

People Management

• Manage and develop a Commercial Analyst whose role will be to deliver the analysis and modeling tools needed to value and price all new PPA structures

You’ll be a successful Commercial Manager - Renewable Energy here at OVO if you

• Experience working in the wholesale energy, renewables or similar sectors
• Experience evaluating and designing new commercial propositions and contract structures
• Strong commercial competence and modeling skills, with the ability to interpret market risks and trends, and translate them into value adding commercial decisions
• Ideally, have experience using tools including GCP BigQuery and Python for commercial analysis and modeling
• Understanding and appreciation of the needs of the customer, and strive to always put them first
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, you will need to be effective in collaborating with a variety of partners to achieve our collective goals
• Ability to communicate with senior team members clearly and concisely, to ensure your commercial recommendations are understood and gain stakeholder support
• Are focussed; you will need to be able to filter and prioritise ideas to deliver the best outcomes for our generators in a complex sector
• A drive to learn and develop new skills; you will be a creative problem solver who thrives off direct responsibility
• Take a hands-on approach: you should thrive with getting stuck into problems and taking responsibility for delivering solutions within a small hard-working team
• Are a great teammate who thrives in an ambitious environment and a self-starter, comfortable working both autonomously and with colleagues to deliver team priorities