BESS Coordination Lead

E.ON Gruppe; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 72,000 - 98,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car or car allowance

26 days annual leave

Pension

Life cover

Bonus opportunities

Flexible benefits

Job summary

E.ON is seeking a BESS Coordination Lead to drive the UK BESS portfolio from opportunity through COD, based in Nottingham or Solihull with hybrid work. You will coordinate multi‑disciplinary teams, oversee investment approvals, and ensure robust business cases and financial inputs across functions.

The role requires deep experience in energy/infrastructure projects, strong knowledge of the UK energy market and BESS revenue models, and a proactive delivery mindset within a high-profile portfolio.

Qualifications

• Experience managing complex energy/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.
• Knowledge of BESS revenue stacking, including frequency response, Capacity Market and merchant trading.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Energy sector experience

UK energy market knowledge

Financial modelling

Investment governance

Stakeholder management

Delivery leadership

Job description

We are looking for a BESS Coordination Lead to join our team based at Trinity House Nottingham or Solihull

Here’s what you'll be doing

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.

Here’s what you need to know

Award-Winning Workplace - We’re proud to be named a Sunday Times Best Place to Work 202 6 and the Best Place to Work for 16–34-year-olds .

Outstanding Benefits - Enjoy 26 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, a generous pension, life cover, bonus opportunities, and access to 20 flexible benefits with tax/NI savings.

Flexible & Family-Friendly - Our industry‑leading hybrid and family‑friendly policies earned us double recognition at the Personnel Today Awards 2024 . We’re open to discussing how flexibility can work for you.

Inclusive & Diverse - We’re the only energy company in the Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers . We’re also proud winners of Best Employer for Women and Human Company of the Year — recognising our inclusive, people‑first culture.

Support at Every Stage of Life - We’re Fertility Friendly and Menopause Friendly accredited, with inclusive support for everyone.

Accessible & Supportive - Do you consider yourself as having a disability? As a Disability Confident Employer, we ensure that disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria move forward to the next stage of our recruitment process, and will make any adjustments needed during the process.

Invested in Your Growth - From inclusive talent networks to top‑tier development programmes , we’ll support your growth every step of the way.

About us

E.ON is a privately owned international energy company. Our 75,000 colleagues in 15 countries work daily towards the improvement of technical innovations and user-friendly customer solutions for the new energy world. We are the first large energy company to focus more heavily upon the energy of the future through our three business areas of energy networks, renewable energies and customer solutions.