Energy Markets Strategy Partner (Demand) – Hybrid

SSE PLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 68,000 - 102,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare discounts

Gym membership discounts

Online GP service

Counselling service 24/7

Cycle to Work scheme

Maternity and adoption pay

Paternity leave

Job summary

SSE is seeking an Energy Markets Business Partner (Demand) to connect EM with ECS, shaping optimisation, risk and commercial decisions. You will influence senior stakeholders and translate complex trading into clear insights, delivering practical, value-focused solutions aligned with SSE’s energy transition goals.

You will collaborate across EM and ECS, prioritise requirements, and identify opportunities while maintaining a strong focus on safety, governance and wellbeing in a fast-paced energy

Qualifications

• Broad experience within energy markets.
• Understanding ECS commercial model and its customer portfolios.
• Ability to translate trading and P&L decisions into clear insights.
• Collaborative approach across multiple teams.
• Strong governance and risk awareness.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships across EM and ECS, bringing a strong understanding of ECS strategy, customers, propositions and commercial priorities into trading, optimisation and risk decisions.
• Coordinate and prioritise ECS requirements within EM, providing clear and transparent insight into commercial decisions, trades, portfolio performance and their impact on Business Unit and Group outcomes.
• Identify emerging opportunities and risks across areas such as customer flexibility, products, propositions, technologies and evolving market models, bringing together expertise from across EM and ECS to develop practical commercial solutions.
• Support short and long-term optimisation, hedging and strategic decision-making, constructively bringing different perspectives together and helping senior stakeholders reach well-informed recommendations that maximise sustainable value.
• Lead by example in creating an inclusive, safe and supportive working environment, embedding safety, health and wellbeing into decision-making, positively promoting safe behaviours and constructively speaking up where something doesn't feel right.

Skills

Energy markets

Trading & risk

Portfolio optimisation

Stakeholder management

Commercial modelling

Job description

SSE is seeking an Energy Markets Business Partner (Demand) to connect EM with ECS, shaping optimisation, risk and commercial decisions. You will influence senior stakeholders and translate complex trading into clear insights, delivering practical, value-focused solutions aligned with SSE’s energy transition goals.

You will collaborate across EM and ECS, prioritise requirements, and identify opportunities while maintaining a strong focus on safety, governance and wellbeing in a fast-paced energy