Applications Manager

Vital Healthcare; Warrington; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

DCC Energy GB is seeking an Applications Manager to lead the central Applications function within Energy Products & Solutions. You will act as a gateway between sales opportunities and technical delivery, ensuring projects are prioritised, resourced and progressed from enquiry to robust proposals.

This role covers solar PV, Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), CHP and other energy solutions, requiring strong operational leadership, capacity planning and governance oversight to support

Responsibilities

• Leading the day-to-day operation of the Applications function.
• Acting as the primary route into the team for requests from sales teams and operating businesses.
• Managing incoming demand across multiple businesses and technologies.
• Assessing priorities, workload and delivery timescales.
• Allocating opportunities across the Applications team.
• Maintaining visibility of active opportunities, team capacity and resource requirements.
• Escalating resource constraints, delivery risks and competing priorities where required.
• Ensuring opportunities progress through the agreed Applications process.

Job description

DCC Energy GB is one of Great Britain's leading multi-energy businesses, providing fuel, LPG, renewable energy, mobility and energy services solutions to homes, businesses and public sector organisations across the country. Through a portfolio of trusted businesses including Flogas Britain, Certas Energy, DCC Mobility, Centreco, Next Energy, Equity Energies, Protech and DTGen, we support customers at every stage of their energy journey, from fuel and energy supply through to energy efficiency, renewable technologies and energy management services. As part of DCC plc, we combine the strength of established market-leading businesses with a commitment to innovation, operational excellence and sustainability, helping customers navigate the energy transition while delivering long-term growth and value.

How You'll Power Our Business As An Applications Manager

At DCC Energy Great Britain, our ambition is to become the most influential and respected energy transition company in the market. Through our market-leading businesses, including Flogas Britain, Certas Energy and Energy Management Services (EMS), we're helping customers navigate the transition to a cleaner, more sustainable energy future.

As an Applications Manager within our central Energy Products & Solutions (EPS) division, you'll lead a growing Applications function that sits at the heart of our energy solutions business. Acting as the gateway between sales opportunities and technical delivery, you'll ensure projects are appropriately prioritised, resourced and progressed from initial enquiry through to technically robust, commercially viable proposals.

This is a fantastic opportunity to build and shape a central Applications capability supporting solar PV, Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), CHP, generation and integrated energy solutions across multiple DCC Energy businesses. You'll combine operational leadership, resource management and process improvement expertise to create a scalable, high-performing function that supports continued growth across the Group.

What You'll Be Doing

• Applications Function Management
• Leading the day-to-day operation of the Applications function.
• Acting as the primary route into the team for requests from sales teams and operating businesses.
• Managing incoming demand across multiple businesses and technologies.
• Assessing priorities, workload and delivery timescales.
• Allocating opportunities across the Applications team.
• Maintaining visibility of active opportunities, team capacity and resource requirements.
• Escalating resource constraints, delivery risks and competing priorities where required.
• Ensuring opportunities progress through the agreed Applications process.

Resource & Capacity Planning

• Owning short and medium-term resource planning across the function.
• Forecasting workload and future resource requirements.
• Balancing workload across Applications Engineers and Specialist Applications Engineers.
• Coordinating specialist technical support and site survey resource.
• Identifying capability gaps and supporting recruitment planning.
• Working closely with the Director of Energy Products & Solutions to support business growth.

Opportunity, Pricing & Proposal Management

• Maintaining oversight of opportunities from initial enquiry through to approved proposal.
• Coordinating site surveys, technical modelling, concept design and proposal development.
• Managing pricing workloads and proposal deadlines across the team.
• Ensuring assumptions, commercial allowances, risks and supplier inputs are clearly documented.
• Supporting consistency across estimating methodologies, pricing structures and proposal outputs.
• Monitoring progress against agreed milestones and governance requirements.