Commercial Operations Manager

Department: Commercial Operations

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: UK - London

Reporting To: Technical Director

Compensation: £80,000 - £100,000 / year

Description

Key Responsibilities

1. Ensuring that all our projects are appropriately revenue ready
   1. Project managing our sites through the end-to-end revenue readiness process, working closely with our construction project managers. Actions including, but not limited to:
   
   

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• Generation licence applications and follow-up
  
• BM/ELEXON, MPAN registrations
  
• Meter operator appointments, ordering, and installations
  
• Ancillary services qualification testing
  
• Capacity Market prequalification, bidding and milestone follow-up
  
• Interface management through cold commissioning, hot commissioning, and into live operations
  

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2. Ongoing asset operations
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   2. Act as the key point of contact with our out-sourced asset manager (and O&M providers where necessary)
      
   3. Ensure close management and monitoring of warranty conditions, and if necessary, manage any claim process
      
   4. Closely monitor new regulations, market auction timelines, and ensure all our assets are appropriately licensed/registered
      
   
   
   
3. 3rd party optimisation interface management
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   2. Closely support the evaluation process in tender for 3rd party optimisation partners, in partnership with our procurement team
      
   3. Work with 3rd party optimisers to connect assets, decide trading strategy, manage ongoing reporting, and troubleshoot any issues
      
   4. Work with 3rd party SCADA/PPC providers e.g. Inaccess, Krakenflex to connect assets
      
   
   
   
4. In-house optimisation
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   2. Work closely with our internal tech team, to ensure we connect to our assets to schedule (when we are optimising in-house)
      
   3. Provide detailed trading input to our in-house technology team to feed into the product development roadmap
      
   
   
   
5. Repowering and augmentation strategy and implementation
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   2. Work with our BESS engineer, analysis team and optimisation team (3rd party and in-house) to define our optimal repowering and augmentation strategy for each project
      
   3. Work with procurement to align timings for feasible delivery
      
   
   
   
6. Asset compliance
   1. Ensure compliance with our licence conditions, including grid and distribution code obligations
   
   
   
7. Reporting
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   2. Manage reporting of live operations (for project SPV, for lenders, for investors, and for broader company)
      
   3. Work in conjunction with the Finance and optimisation team to audit how our revenue is recognised e.g. confirm what actions were taken, and why
      
   4. Monitor performance, and escalate any issues (warranties, availability, …) 
      
   
   
   

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

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• Experience setting up commercial operations for live battery or similar net-zero-enabling projects
  
• Exceptional project management skill set, with experience managing complex interdependencies 
  
• Excellent understanding of battery revenue streams
  
• Experience managing 3rd party battery optimisers, and tendering for their services
  
• Experience in GB energy markets; Italy, Spain and Germany is a plus
  

Benefits

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• Hybrid working (blend of home and office working to suit individual needs)
  
• NEST Pension (8% combined contributions)
  
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
  
• 13 weeks of fully paid leave for all new parents
  
• Annual learning & development budget to spend on whatever best supports your growth
  
• 1 month a year ‘work from anywhere in the world’ policy 
  
• Paid dependents leave, in case you need to take time off for the most important people in your life
  
• Green leave - paid time off to do something good for the environment
  
• Fun co-working office space in Second Home, Brick Lane
  
• Dog friendly office (with some regular furry friends already in the team)
  
• Free team lunch once a week
  
• Regular team socials
  
• Birthday carbon offset - a gift from Field to the world to celebrate your birthday
  
• & many more on the way!