About This Role
This role involves managing Veolia's Capacity Market activities and defining the scope of portfolio activities with a high degree of freedom. It suits a professional with a strong understanding of energy markets and a commitment to advancing ecological transformation.
Responsibilities
- Take ownership of Veolia's existing Capacity Market activities, generating £ms per year, managing all steps of the process with strong attention to detail and adherence to strict deadlines
- Operate with a high degree of freedom in defining and refining the scope of portfolio activities, with regular steering meetings with the Head of Flexibility to align direction and set objectives
- Develop and maintain a robust understanding of energy market direction and the evolving role of flexibility services, translating this into actionable strategies and pilot projects with defined KPIs
- Responsible for asset registration with relevant flexibility services and ensuring ongoing compliance with participation rules, including instrumentation and data logging requirements
- Maintain close and regular interaction with Veolia Business Units involved in and impacted by flexibility services — including Energy Markets, IWE, Treatment, Commercial, and Municipal — engaging at all levels from operations managers through to directors
- Engage with other Veolia zones and Veolia Group to share and promote best practice in flexibility and portfolio management
- Represent Veolia UK in workshops and forums with TSOs, DSOs, and wider market stakeholders, contributing to Veolia's external profile in the flexibility space
- Act as the primary operational and technical point of contact for clients throughout onboarding, project delivery, and ongoing operations, ensuring high service quality and long-term client satisfaction
- Develop, maintain, and continuously improve processes for asset performance tracking, aggregator performance monitoring, risk evaluation, potential assessment, contract management, and regulatory compliance
Requirements
- Thorough experience in energy markets, operations, engineering, data, or other technical/regulated environments
- Strong analytical mindset and a solid interest in power systems and market mechanisms
- Working at the intersection of clients, markets, and technical systems in fast-moving environments
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Good understanding of energy markets, power systems, or regulated environments
- Ability to work with data and modeling tools (e.g. Excel, SQL, Python, Grafana or similar)
- Interest in market mechanisms and energy regulation; knowledge of ancillary services is a plus
- Operational knowledge of capacity markets is a huge addition
- Good understanding of fundamentals of flexibility markets
