Base Location: Glasgow, Reading or London preferred | We're proud to offer a Flexible First approach to work, and this role is no exception.
Salary: Base + car (or car allowance) + performance related bonus + a range of other benefits to support your family, finances and wellbeing
Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | with flexible working options available
What is the Role?
SSE has big ambitions to be a leading energy company in a low carbon world. Following our commitment to invest £12.5 billion in low carbon projects over the next 5 years, we have significant growth plans and are well on our way to achieving our ambition to build a world that's more sustainable and inclusive for you, your family, the community you live in and for generations to come.
Join us on our journey to net zero and help us power change.
SSE PLC are developing a regional delivery strategy aimed at creating local energy skills on the back of realising public sector growth. This role will lead the businesses public sector growth strategy and realise opportunities for SSE Energy Solutions to deploy its capital to achieve a long term return on investment in renewable and low carbon assets. Within this role, you’ll be responsible for identifying strategically significant opportunities and being the key interface with senior client stakeholders. The role holder will be responsible for the development of major national opportunities with contract values in excess of c.£500M.
This role will be primarily focused on Early-stage project development, and has responsibility for identifying and managing client requirements, stakeholders and third-party engagements (including partnering arrangements internally and externally) to shape work winning opportunities to the point of handover to delivery teams. This includes understanding key routes to market for major programs of work, proposition development, development/ implementation of practices to manage and measure effective project delivery and ownership of growth targets.
What do I need?
To be successful in this role, you'll ideally need to:
- Possess extensive experience in developing projects from the early stages through to delivery.
- Demonstrate experience operating at a senior leadership level within the public sector energy/ utilities market, managing high value projects/ programs of work.
- Advanced knowledge and understanding of project management systems and governance arrangements for development and execution of large capital projects.
- Have experience creating large project joint-venture agreements and extensive commercial negotiation exposure within matrix environments.
- Strong and demonstrable experience of preparation, negotiation and execution of complex agreements, especially in a multi contract delivery model environment with individual contract values in excess of £500M.
- Build engaged & resilient teams that are capable of creating large projects’ program of works at a regional level
- Have experience of working across the public sector and public sector type organisations.
- Communicate and manage the expectations of a range of internal and external stakeholders, at times making sure technical and commercial information is presented accurately and effectively understood by the audience.
SSE Energy Solutions is the Distributed Energy (DE) and Private Networks business of SSE plc. We finance, own, operate and maintain energy infrastructure for commercial, industrial and Public Sector customers - providing them with a market leading project development service and certainty of operational performance and asset management. In order to accelerate progress towards net zero, SSE Group is investing £7m a day on low carbon infrastructure, creating 1,000 green jobs a year in the process, as part of its £25bn NZAP (Net Zero Acceleration Programme).
What's in it for you?
We offer an excellent package with 34 days annual leave entitlement. Enhanced maternity/paternity leave, discounted healthcare, salary sacrifice car leasing and much more, view our full benefits package on our careers site.
As an equal opportunity employer we encourage diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applicants from all protected characteristics and commit to providing any reasonable adjustments you need during the application, assessment and upon joining SSE. Search for 'Inclusion & Diversity at SSE' to find out more.
What happens now?
All applications should be made online, and I'll be back in touch after the vacancy closing date to let you know the outcome.
If you would like to discuss any working flexibly requirements or adjustments you may require throughout the recruitment and selection process, please contact zoe.gillespie@sse.com.
Before commencing your role with SSE, you'll need to complete our pre-employment screening process. This will consist of a criminality and credit check.
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