Pricing Lead

Job Description

Role: Pricing LeadRate: To be confirmedLocation: Solihull - Hybrid - 2-3 days per week on siteDuration: 6 to 7 months with the possible of extensionsYou will be responsible for the timely and accurate validation and distribution of monthly statements.The post holder will be responsible for the development of new and existing pricing, contract management, billing and settlement processes supporting a suite of complex electricity products, including those for power settlement, imbalance, embedded benefits,ROCs & REGOs along with any netting arrangements. They will need to understand the product pipeline and use understanding of customer contracts and Route to Market agreements to influence the development of such products ensuring the terms are sufficientlyrobust to improve the risk profile and risk adjusted returns of the business.Responsibilities:As a pricing lead you shall be responsible for timely, accurate and cost reflective pricing and contract management ensuring the application of accurate known and forecast costs and delivery of anticipated contract margin.Responsible for ensuring there is appropriate control in place to manage pricing and contract management, statement & invoice production for power related products and environmental certificates ensuring DOA authorisation is adhered to and that effectiverisk mitigation is in place.Provide monitoring and analysis of contract performance highlighting significant variations between point of delivery and point of sale margin with significant focus on loss making contracts in order to provide root cause analysis and value adding insightto the Generation Services Operations, Commercial and Sales managers on post contract value erosion.Understand and interpret complex contract and product structures ensuring that processes, systems and SLAs are developed that support efficient price, statement and invoice production whilst recognising and mitigating the risk involved. This will protectgross margin through the contract lifecycle and contribute delivery of the business plan EBITA.Build a capability within the team to understand the complex commercial risks, product structures and contracting process so that continuous improvement, improved efficiency and automation are considered BAU and support statement/invoice production, certificatemanagement and the business across a number of key stakeholder groups and interfaces to mitigate these risks.Essential Skills

• 3-5 years experience in the UK / EU energy market or in a Risk Management environment.
• Demonstrate strong economic, market and financial analytical capability.
• Strong understanding of commercial, financial and generation services functions
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills
• Strong understanding of electricity and gas trading arrangements, in particular system imbalance
• In depth understanding of valuation and risk analysis methods and statistical analysis.
• Have good IT skills MS Office suite (especially Excel), VB(A), statistical packages.
• Strong knowledge of internal risk policies, procedures and corporate risk directives
• Demonstrate ability to transform theoretical knowledge to practical, real-world situations and be able to articulate complex issues in a concise and compelling fashion up to and at Director level
• Be results-oriented, able to meet tight deadlines and produce clear and concise feedback/reports to senior management.
• Be able to cope in a high pressure environment

Desirable

• A numerate or IS Business related degree is desirable (for example in Finance/Maths/Economics/Business Systems)

If this role is of interest, please do submit your CV for review.

Keyskills :
EnergyForecastingPricingRenewable EnergyData Analyst