Enel X is Enel’s global business line dedicated to developing innovative products and digital solutions in sectors in which energy is showing the greatest potential for transformation: cities, homes, industries and electric mobility. Enel X holds the leading position in demand response programs globally, with over 6 GW of demand side response capacity currently managed in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Oceania.
Trust, Responsibility, Innovation and Proactivity are the core values of our organization. We are always looking for different perspectives, ideas and point of views. Each person is important to us, independently from their gender, age, nationality, ability or any other form of diversity or specificity. We are a people focused Company and we work to empower all our colleagues through development programs and lifelong learning.
We promote work flexibility recognizing the importance of wellbeing and work-life balance.
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Job Description:
Enel X UK has an immediate need for an Energy Markets Specialist to join our market leading Demand Response team based in UK.
This demanding, fast-paced opportunity, is responsible for delivering our Demand Response programs in UK and Ireland. The role reports directly to the Head of Demand Response for UK & Ireland and the suitable candidate will have a proven record of success in data-driven, decision-making and cross-team project management.
Main role:
Contribute to the efficient and profitable management and growth of the Demand Response portfolio of Enel X in UK in compliance with relevant program regulations and governing rules.
Responsibilities:
- Delivering against existing commitments
- Coordinating and project-managing the execution of our programs, strategies and commitments across operational and customer-facing teams
- Serving as an account manager and primary operational point of contact for market stakeholders
- Overseeing customer enrolment and prequalification
- Provide oversight of asset registration and settlement processes
- Processing settlement and financial transactions associated with program delivery, including external reporting requirements, timely customer payments and financial bookings
- Monitoring end to end processes to ensure compliance with program and market rules, and company policies and procedures
- Portfolio management and optimization
- Support the development of and launch of new flexibility products and programmes
- Manage auction/tender processes including conducting detailed market analysis, developing auction strategy and gaining senior approval and executing on auction plans
- Contribute to and championing the continuous improvement of scalable processes to increase efficiency and operational effectiveness
- Driving collaboration efforts across teams to achieve successful implementation
- Continuously monitor flexibility markets to forecast possible events
- Strategy and Planning
- Serving as the internal market expert for Demand Response, continuously informing our business strategy and product development needs and priorities
- Support with business planning, forecasts, and assessment of opportunities and risks
- Providing policy guidance and analysis to advance our interests with government and regulatory stakeholders
- Identify and drive initiatives that improve operations, mitigate risks and take advantage of emerging market opportunities
- Contribute to the development of business and IT requirements
Required Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will:
- Be excited and motivated to transform the energy sector through innovative business solutions
- Have a university degree
- Have at least 3 years of experience working in the energy industry and have a good knowledge of the Irish energy market, in particular the DS3 and Capacity Market programs
- Organised and have proven project management skills with prior experience managing across culturally diverse teams both internally and externally
- Have experience with budgeting, settling and managing customer payments and business case development
- High attention to detail and able to synthetize complex information into clear, actionable messages
- Have strong quantitative and qualitative skills
- Strong Excel skills and familiar with common software types
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with and familiar with contracts in the B2B energy space
- Familiar with customer relationship management tools, e.g. Salesforce
- Possess some programming languages capabilities (VBA, Python, etc).
