BESS Coordination Lead

E.ON UK; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 72,000 - 98,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car/allowance

Employee benefits

Job summary

E.ON UK is seeking a seasoned EIS UK BESS Coordination Lead to turn our pipeline into investable, build-ready projects. The role connects the UK BESS portfolio with E.ON UK, E.ON Group and Energy Infrastructure Solutions, coordinating opportunities from initial assessment through COD.

The successful candidate will lead cross-functional teams, manage investment governance, and drive delivery while ensuring readiness across commercial and technical domains.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in energy or infrastructure projects through investment and delivery stages.
• Strong understanding of the UK energy market and BESS value drivers.
• Experience with business cases, financial modelling and investment governance.

Responsibilities

• Own coordination of the UK BESS pipeline from opportunity through to COD.
• Assess BESS opportunities with M&A against investment criteria and coordinate governance.
• Lead Gate 0, 1 and 2 investment approvals, ensuring robust, timely decisions.
• Coordinate business cases, financial assumptions and commercial inputs across teams.
• Drive deployment of BESS Blueprints and guardrails and feed learnings back to central teams.
• Ensure projects are technically and commercially ready to build, including due diligence support.
• Identify capability gaps and coordinate actions to address them.
• Build and lead a high-performing UK BESS portfolio team.

Skills

Energy/infrastructure experience

Project governance

UK energy market knowledge

Financial modelling

Investment due diligence

Stakeholder management

BESS revenue knowledge

Job description

Salary - £85,000 plus company car/car allowance as well as excellent employee benefits

Location- Nottingham or Solihull (Hybrid)

E.ON is expanding its UK Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) portfolio, and we’re looking for an EIS UK BESS Coordination Lead to help turn our ambitious pipeline into investable, build-ready projects.

This is a pivotal role connecting the UK BESS pipeline with E.ON UK, E.ON Group and Energy Infrastructure Solutions (EIS). The role will coordinate opportunities from initial assessment and M&A due diligence through investment governance, execution readiness and Commercial Operations Date (COD).

Working across strategy, commercial, technical and delivery teams, the role will bring structure, pace and accountability to a complex, high-profile portfolio.

What you’ll do

• Own coordination of the UK BESS pipeline from opportunity through to COD.
• Assess incoming BESS opportunities with M&A against investment criteria and coordinate the acquisition governance process.
• Lead Gate 0, 1 and 2 investment approvals, ensuring decisions are robust, timely and aligned with BESS Blueprints.
• Coordinate business cases, financial assumptions and commercial inputs across EIS, EEM, procurement, engineering and finance.
• Drive deployment of BESS Blueprints and Guardrails across the UK and feed project learnings back into central teams.
• Ensure projects are technically and commercially ready to build, including supporting due diligence and acquisition processes.
• Identify organisational capability and capacity gaps and coordinate actions to address them.
• Build and lead a high-performing team as the UK BESS portfolio grows.

What we need from you

You’ll have significant experience in the energy or infrastructure sector, with direct exposure to BESS, grid-scale assets or energy markets.

• Proven experience managing complex energy or infrastructure projects through investment and delivery stages.
• Strong understanding of the UK energy market, BESS revenue streams and asset value drivers.
• Experience with business cases, financial modelling and investment governance.
• Ideally, knowledge of BESS revenue stacking, including frequency response, Capacity Market and merchant trading.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and align senior leaders across a matrix organisation.
• A structured, commercially minded and proactive approach, with the ability to drive delivery through ambiguity and complexity.