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Energy Markets Specialist

Octopus Energy· OEGEN / Asset Management
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Hybrid (London (GB))Full-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior commercial and market expert to oversee energy-market activity for Octopus Energy Generation’s renewable portfolio, with a focus on BESS revenue strategy, route-to-market, hedging, and market risk across funds and assets.

Responsibilities

  • Lead energy-market coverage for ORIT, including route-to-market performance, revenue strategy, hedging, market risk and key commercial counterparties
  • Build OEGEN’s BESS commercial strategy across priority markets, including revenue underwriting, route-to-market, optimiser selection and risk management
  • Provide senior market input into investment decisions, challenging assumptions on power prices, capture prices, ancillary services, balancing, negative pricing, grid constraints and commercial structures
  • Develop clear standards and guidance for BESS and collocated assets, ensuring lessons from operational assets are reflected in new investment assumptions
  • Lead or oversee complex commercial processes, including optimiser, route-to-market and strategic PPA tenders; work with external providers to deliver routine contracting efficiently where appropriate
  • Monitor energy-market, regulatory and policy developments across OEGEN’s priority markets, identifying risks and opportunities for funds and assets
  • Work closely with Fund Asset Directors and Fund Management teams to develop and implement market strategies that support fund objectives, investor returns and risk appetite
  • Manage relationships with traders, optimisers, balancing parties, advisers and other key commercial partners, holding them to account for performance
  • Define and interpret quantitative analysis required for hedging, BESS, merchant exposure and portfolio risk, working with specialist analytical support where appropriate
  • Communicate complex market issues clearly to Investment Committee, Asset Boards and investors, with practical recommendations and a clear view of risk

Qualifications

  • Significant experience in European power markets, renewable energy commercialisation, trading, optimisation or energy-market advisory
  • Strong practical experience of BESS commercial strategy, including revenue modelling, route-to-market arrangements, ancillary services, dispatch considerations and optimiser performance
  • Experience working for, or advising, a renewable IPP, fund manager, utility, trading house, optimiser or energy-market consultancy
  • Excellent commercial judgement, with a track record of challenging and improving market assumptions, commercial structures or route-to-market strategies
  • Strong understanding of renewable revenue drivers, including PPAs, merchant exposure, hedging, balancing, capture price, negative pricing, ancillary services and grid constraints
  • High financial and numerical acumen, with the ability to build, review and challenge complex revenue models and investment assumptions
  • Experience leading complex commercial processes and managing external counterparties, including PPA, route-to-market, optimiser or trading arrangements
  • Ability to work credibly with investment, technical, fund-management and asset-management teams, translating market complexity into clear decisions
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present commercial recommendations to senior management, Investment Committee and investors

Skills

Required:European power markets experienceBESS revenue modellingPPA/route-to-market management

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangement (Hybrid)
  • Competitive compensation discussions available upon inquiry
  • Autonomy and ownership within a collaborative culture
  • Recognition as part of a top employer (e.g., UK top company to work for 2025)
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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