Senior Commercial Manager - Solar and Storage (FTC - Maternity Cover)

  • Ovo Energy
  • Feb 01, 2024
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Job Description

Role OVO-View

Location: Hub based! Bristol, London or Glasgow

But you have the flexibility to work wherever suits you best

Team: Zero Carbon Living

Salary banding: £59,690 - £70,000

Experience: Experienced

Working pattern: Full-Time / Fixed Term Contract (Maternity Cover)

Reporting to: Scott Duncan - Head of Solar & Storage

Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

This role in 3 words: Exciting, empowering, fulfilling

Top 3 qualities for this role: Commercially astute, entrepreneurial, dynamic

In the words of the team, you should leave your current role for this one because .

"I love working in ZCL, I get to work with cool tech and nice people in a place where we make a real difference to customers and the planet "

Everyone belongs at OVO

At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That's why we need diverse people from all gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

Teamworking for the planet

Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you'll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Here's how:

We are a team of world changers. We're the team that will make a huge difference to customers and to the planet by rolling out affordable & renewable tech at scale.

This role in a nutshell:

Reporting to the Head of Solar and Storage the Senior Commercial manager will help OVO to build and scale the Solar and Storage business. This role offers the opportunity to help craft the 5-year business plan by being responsible for the commercials, playing a key role in the project management and leading on all partnership opportunities.

Your key outcomes will be:

As we grow our ZCL team and increase our efforts to decarbonise homes and transport for our 5 million customers', we need a specialist with a breadth of knowledge across Renewable Energy and associated technologies. Specifically, the successful candidate would:

  • Building and maintaining the Solar and Storage budget for ZCL, in collaboration with the finance team and leadership.
  • Being responsible for the economics of existing and new propositions, leading workstreams with the product teams to drive stable profitability.
  • Contributing ideas and commercial awareness to the product development and prioritisation process for renewable energy tech.
  • Taking ownership for leading and developing relationships with existing and new partners in the renewable space.
  • Work closely with the project management team to bring products to market.
  • Work closely with the product and tech team on all customer journey designs and product builds.
  • Evaluate the risks, challenges and opportunities, making recommendations on future direction.
  • Develop and support creation of our end-to-end renewable energy GTM strategy, then either own those processes or handover to the relevant teams.
  • Contribute to policy asks, project bids, partnership development.
  • Engaging with the public affairs team and staying abreast of relevant policy consultations and decisions, to help ZCL adapt to the policy environment in which it operates.
  • Support strategic & commercial evaluation of various products and innovation projects.
  • Weekly performance reporting.
  • Representing OVO at external events.

Within your first 3 months month you'll:

  • Be comfortable explaining all OVO has to offer (incl our mission and benefits)
  • Be known in your business area and by key collaborators as the recruiter for the job
  • Be familiar with OVO's hiring processes, our ATS and our other systems
  • Expanded some of the regions where we have contractor resource
  • Improved our procurement/onboarding experience Worked with the sales team to improve sales conversion rates
  • Launched consumer finance in partnership with payments

Systems: Zoho CRM, Midsummer and Easy PV

You'll be a successful Senior Commercial manager - Solar and Storage here at OVO if you

  • Can manage P&L modeling
  • Have experience in solar PV
  • Can operate in a high growth environment
  • Can execute commercial outcomes

Let's talk about what's in it for you

We'll pay you between £59,690 - £70,000, depending on your specific skills and experience. If your expectations are a little different, have a chat with us!

We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us, and you, flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission.

You'll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal.

We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO and there's flex pay. It's an extra 9% of your salary on top of your core pay to use as you like. You can take it as cash, add to your pension, or choose to spend it on a huge range of flex benefits.

Here's a taster of what's on offer:

For starters, you'll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays).

For your health
With benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more

For your wellbeing
With gym membership, gadget, travel and cyber insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, DNA testing, dental insurance, and more

For your lifestyle
With extra holiday buying, discount dining, culture cards, tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donations

For your home
Get up to £300 off any OVO Energy plan (when you pay by Direct Debit), plus personal carbon offsetting and great discounts on smart thermostats and EV chargers

For your commute
Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans

Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies? Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

For your Belonging

To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other's experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you.

Oh, and one last thing

We'd be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes yet we also believe it's just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we're looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We'd still love to hear from you! If you have any additional requirements, there's a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible