Strategic Partner, OVO
£65-80k
+ On-Target Bonus of 15% + Bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone
Be an early applicant
Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£65-80k
+ On-Target Bonus of 15% + Bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance
More information about location
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
OVO is a leading energy technology company determined to create a world with clean, affordable energy for everyone. Using energy, technology and people power, the company is on a mission to lower its carbon emissions to zero by 2035, helping customers reduce theirs at the same time - they call this Plan Zero.
Role
Who you are
- Top 3 qualities for this role: Adaptable. Communication. Influence
- Have previous experience at a top tier strategy consulting firm or in a high paced hyper-growth environment
- Are a strategic thinker with strong analytical skills, excellent communication, and project management capabilities. You should have experience in cross-functional stakeholder engagement and demonstrate a proactive approach to relationship building
- Demonstrate specific industry expertise and passionate about the zero carbon living space
- Thrive in ambiguity, ask incisive questions and take a structured approach to problem-solving
- Are an expert problem solver who focuses on the highest impact areas using data to make decisions, and can succinctly communicate across the business
- Have strong project management experience and proven track record of delivery, comfortable with wider organisational change and leading in an agile environment
- Have the level of impact required to drive business decisions and influence at Executive level in the business - executive level messaging is a strength with excellent communication skills – both written and verbal
- Enjoy team dynamics and are great relationship builder with strong interpersonal skills
What the job involves
- Reporting to: Mat Moakes, CCO
- This role in 3 words: Strategic. Collaboration. Delivery
- Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero
- So, naturally, the team you’ll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen
- Here’s how:
- We're the home for the strategic direction of the business, partnering with the Commercial Leadership Team to define the Retail strategy and works cross-functionally to embed an entrepreneurial, agile, planning approach across the business
- We lead some of our largest and most complex change programmes
- We also work alongside Corporate Finance to influence some of the most pivotal questions around future valuation and longer-term financial planning for OVO Group, delivering discrete initiatives and special projects to support this strategic direction
- You'll work directly with members of the Commercial Leadership Team and their teams to craft and deliver our strategy, drive critical priorities and business activity
- You will design, lead, and optimise key forums and engagements that shape the Commercial function’s strategic direction, while leading on high-impact projects and initiatives that align with long-term business objectives and act as a thought partner and critical friend
- Working as part of the Commercial team, you'll work closely with the Commercial Growth, ZCL and Franchise teams to optimise and align across strategy, priorities, business plans and associated budgets
- Be a consultant and partner to member(s) of the CLT, building strong working relationships with their teams and with people across the business
- Deep-dive into specific areas of the organisation, building key relationships to become a critical friend and thought partner
- Support the definition and management of appropriate governance within dedicated areas, ensuring alignment to broader retail governance
- Cross-functional Engagement Proactively engage with teams across Operations, Technology, CABAM and Central Functions to foster a collaborative and supportive environment, promoting a balance of challenge support and alignment with the Commercial team
- Performance Monitoring & Support
- Attend weekly performance calls, gather relevant data and insights, and provide key support to the CCO by tracking priority topics and ensuring actions are taken where necessary
- This includes tracking the value of strategic initiatives and making sure these land for the team
- Strategic Planning & Project Delivery
- Lead the mid-year and annual planning processes, ensuring high-quality plans are developed, well-communicated, and fully integrated across functions
- Coordinate cross-functional engagement sessions as needed
- Assisting the CCO and Commercial team with in-depth strategic discussions and ongoing key topics, typically managing 2-3 projects at any time
- Develop business strategy - work within specific areas of the business and with the wider partnering & planning team to develop and iterate strategic documents and artefacts (including CLT and Board materials)
- This typically involves designing compelling presentations for company-wide meetings and speaking engagements
- Collaborate cross functionally across the organisation, partnering with the planning function and finance partners to ensure strategies are aligned to Financial outlooks, and dependencies are detailed
- Board & Executive Reporting
- Proactively prepare and present materials for Board meetings, collaborating with the central Strategy team as needed to ensure high-quality outputs
- Work closely with the RLT on critical issues facing OVO, often assembling and leading cross functional teams to tackle problems and respond to issues
- Supporting the leadership team and making it as high functioning as possible, including goal setting and with the support of Executive Assistant running key ceremonies including weekly and quarterly meetings
Salary benchmarks
Our take
On average, home energy represents 26% of our carbon footprint. Ovo Energy wants to bring this to zero by providing cheaper, greener and simpler energy to customers. They are analysing meter data to deliver easy, personalised actions, turning electric vehicles into power stations with clever chargers, and building energy-efficient heaters. For households, their offering is organised into four different energy plans. that include interest rewards on energy credit balance.
In 2020, OVO completed the acquisition of SSE Energy Services' retail arm for £500 million, meaning that the challenger brand now has around 4 million customers in the UK.
While helping Ovo members halve their carbon footprints, the company is also working towards becoming a net zero carbon business by 2035. The challenges ahead for the company include encouraging consumer behaviour change, shifting towards subscription models for home energy use.
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Insights
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back within 2 weeks
42% female employees
14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Inspiring mission
"The mission to provide Green energy to all customers, and to enable all our customers to start on a journey towards zero carbon living is written in..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2023
$252.7m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Feb 2019
$252.7m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $544.6m
Company benefits
- Annual Discretionary Bonus
- 9% Flex Pay - extra on top of your core pay to use as you like. You can take it as cash, use as your pension contribution, or choose to spend it on a huge range of flex benefits (tech schemes, EV leasing and more!).
- Flexible / Remote Working
- Personal Development Allowances and Free Access to OVOLearn - our very own training platform
- 34 Days Holiday (including bank holidays)
- Health Insurance
- £400 OVO Energy Discount
Company values
- Find a better way - We always look for a better way, whether that’s by delivering a better service, employing brilliant people or improving our products and processes
- Do what's right - Being open, honest and fair is one of the values which applies to everything we do. We take pride in talking to our customers and delivering exceptional work
- Build something great - Simple solutions aren’t quick or easy to find. They take time and tenacity. Our people work to find an answer that helps us ‘build something great’
Company HQ
Redcliffe, Bristol, UK
Articles
Leadership
Stephen Fitzpatrick
(Founder)Founder of multiple electric technology companies.
David Buttress
(Chief Executive Officer)CEO of OVO, the UK’s 3rd largest energy supplier. Joined in May 2024.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at OVO
Alessandro Storer (Head of Inclusion & Belonging )
- We run inclusive training and unconscious bias workshops for employees and interviewers
- We provide mental health support, through different networks, having mental health first aiders within the business and running initiatives like our "wellbeing Wednesdays" to promote this.
- We have dedicated Early Years programmes with a focus on underrepresented groups, offering different training opportunities within the business.
- We invest in tools, like Textio, and focused I&D job boards to help us reduce bias in our job postings and recruitment activity.
- Commitment in improving diversity across our Tech Teams and working with companies to improve the tech ecosystem as a whole, specifically have committed to 25% Women in Tech at OVO by 2025
- We've signed up to numerous charters, like the Tech Talent Charter, Race at Work Charter and Trans in the City, to show our continuing commitment to improving I&D within OVO and the wider community
- Within OVO we have multiple belonging networks and communities set up, to offer support and forums for everybody
- Read more about our commitments to improving Diversity & Inclusion at OVO in our linked belonging report
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