Energy Markets Specialist
Octopus EnergyLondon (GB), United Kingdom
Full Time
Posted September 17, 2026
£27k - £29k· Est.
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Job Description
Help us make a big green dent in the universe.
Key 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
Requirements
- 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
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