AddressYou will lead our Global Renewable Trading activities in Europe, focussing on originating and structuring transactions with corporate clients. You will work as part of a global team, covering UK, Europe, Americas, Japan and the APAC region.
With the assistance of a Renewables Market Analyst, you will be responsible for identifying, valuing, transacting and subsequent position management of Energy Attribute Certificates and Carbon Emissions Reduction Certificate transactions. The focus will be managing client flow from our Commercial I&C retail and PPA activities, providing a route-to-market for our Origination customers, and originating transactions directly with corporate clients.
How will I spend my time in this role?
- Responsibility for managing the renewable commodity positions, maintaining a continuous view of the position (volumetric and value);
- Developing and maintaining relationships with our wholesale customers, brokers and corporate clients;
- Hiring, training, motivating, evaluating, and managing an Analyst;
- Driving our marketing efforts to corporate clients including networking, attending conferences, making presentations, and working with the marketing and commercial teams to produce marketing content;
- Execute trades so that the book value is improved (positive retained P&L) by additional transactions;
- Originate renewables contracts with corporate clients to deliver additional company revenues and/or manage risks;
- Carry out the appropriate analysis and pricing of all relevant environmental commodities and carry out analysis to support Origination / Structured Trading Teams;
- Respond to business leads from the Origination / Sales teams to deliver additional company revenues.
What skills/experience do I need to be successful?
- Experience of Gas, Power, Energy Attribute Certificates and / or Carbon Emissions Reduction Certificates trading gained through a front office position at a utility, trading house, bank, or similar institution.
- Extensive experience marketing commodity products to corporate clients.
- Extensive experience of analysing market data and trends to develop new commercial strategies.
- Extensive network in the European energy markets
- Experience of the full deal life cycle - originating, structuring, and executing.
- Deep market knowledge of the renewable energy sector (e.g. regulatory regimes promoting renewable energy and emissions reductions, market participants, market fundamentals, price and volatility trends).
What else do we offer?
- The opportunity to work from anywhere in the world for up to 30 days a year;
- A genuine commitment to smarter working – we recognise your work/life balance matters;
- Paid time off to volunteer in your community;
- Excellent benefits package including private medical insurance/dental cover and 10% non-contributory pension from month three;
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What does hybrid working mean to us?
Hybrid working typically means 2 days in the office location listed on this advert and 3 days working at home each week. Some occasional travel to our other offices may be required.
What happens next?
Once we receive your CV it will be reviewed by a human– no bots here!
The average process once we receive your application takes around 2-3 weeks with typically 2 stages of video interviews using Teams – however this can change depending on the role (we may invite you to see us face to face or just need 1 video interview).
If you need any support you can see who to contact in our Recruitment Team on the advert – any questions please just let us know.
Get to know us better....
The future of energy is digitised, decarbonised and localised. At Smartest Energy, we need revolutionary thinkers to help our customers make the most of this new landscape, thinking differently to find smart solutions to complex problems.
Formed in 2001, we’re an agile business driven by entrepreneurial thinking. As a subsidiary of the Marubeni Corporation, we also have strong investment and infrastructure behind us. We have three offices in the UK, one in the US and another in Australia. Further expansion is planned for 2024 and beyond which means global career opportunities for you, with plenty of potential to explore new markets.
When you join our Team, you will have the opportunity to contribute and make an impact every single day.
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We know that for our business to thrive we need diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the countries in which we operate. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow.
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