IDNO Private Network Business Development Manager

E.ON; East Midlands; Remote; GBP 73,000 - 81,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Award‑Winning Workplace

Flexible & Family‑Friendly

Inclusive & Diverse

Invested in Your Growth

Job summary

E.ON is seeking a Private Network Business Development Manager (IDNO) to drive growth and shape E.ON’s IDNO Private Networks proposition across the UK. The role is home-based with nationwide travel, focusing on originating and securing strategic opportunities in data centres, airports, healthcare, universities, BESS and EV infrastructure.

You will build senior relationships with landlords, developers and asset managers, shape commercial investment cases and develop a national pipeline while

Qualifications

• Significant business development, commercial or infrastructure investment experience within the electricity, utility or energy sector.
• Experience originating and converting high-value, complex commercial opportunities.
• Executive-level customer and partner relationship experience.
• Strong commercial negotiation, influencing and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to assess technical, commercial and regulatory risk.
• Experience developing business cases, investment papers and financial proposals.
• Ability to manage opportunities through long and complex sales cycles.
• Strong presentation, communication and analytical capability.

Responsibilities

• Support the development and commercial delivery of E.ON’s IDNO Private Networks strategy, helping to establish and grow a new market channel that accelerates regulated asset growth, gross margin and long‑term enterprise value.
• Develop and execute E.ON’s Private Networks go‑to‑market strategy, creating a sustainable pipeline of opportunities aligned to the wider IDNO growth and regulated asset targets.
• Identify, develop and secure complex private network acquisition and adoption opportunities across industrial, commercial, infrastructure and energy sectors, including data centres, airports, ports, healthcare estates, universities, business parks, BESS developments, EV infrastructure and private wire networks.
• Develop senior relationships with landlords, developers, infrastructure owners, asset managers, consultants and strategic partners to position E.ON as a preferred partner for private network assets.
• Steer the development of commercially compelling propositions, asset valuations, investment cases and acquisition structures that deliver attractive risk‑adjusted returns.
• Create, manage and convert a national pipeline of private network opportunities, maintaining robust forecasting of asset value, gross margin, capital deployment and strategic growth outcomes.
• Collaborate with engineering, regulatory, operations, legal, finance and land rights teams to coordinate due diligence activities and ensure opportunities progress efficiently through governance and approval processes.
• Develop investment papers and approval submissions that support capital deployment choices and demonstrate expected revenue, gross margin and return on investment outcomes.
• Represent E.ON across industry events, conferences, trade bodies and customer forums, raising market awareness of E.ON’s private networks proposition and strengthening market presence.
• Maintain a detailed understanding of industry regulation, market developments, customer drivers and competitor activity to identify opportunities and mitigate commercial risk.
• Support the development of a scalable private networks capability, helping to shape the proposition, processes and ways of working as the market opportunity grows.
• Build relationships across the private networks, infrastructure, investment and energy ecosystem to identify new opportunities and support the continued growth of E.ON’s Private Networks proposition.

Skills

Business development

High-value deals

Executive relationships

Negotiation

Risk assessment

Business cases

Long sales cycles

Presentation skills

Job description

We are looking for 2 Private Network Business Development Manager's to join E.ON UK Networks Assets Limited, this role is home based involving nationwide travel as required.

IDNO Private Network Business Development Manager

Here’s what you'll be doing

Base location: Home based involving nationwide travel as required.

Join E.ON UK Network Assets Limited as an IDNO Private Network Business Development Manager and play a pivotal role in shaping and growing E.ON’s IDNO Private Networks proposition across the UK. You’ll originate, develop and secure strategic acquisition opportunities across sectors including data centres, airports, healthcare, universities, BESS and EV infrastructure, while building senior relationships that create a sustainable pipeline and long‑term commercial opportunities.

This is an exciting opportunity to drive commercial growth, help shape E.ON’s IDNO Private Networks proposition and support the development of E.ON’s position in the UK private electricity networks market.

Key responsibilities

• Support the development and commercial delivery of E.ON’s IDNO Private Networks strategy, helping to establish and grow a new market channel that accelerates regulated asset growth, gross margin and long‑term enterprise value.
• Develop and execute E.ON’s Private Networks go‑to‑market strategy, creating a sustainable pipeline of opportunities aligned to the wider IDNO growth and regulated asset targets.
• Identify, develop and secure complex private network acquisition and adoption opportunities across industrial, commercial, infrastructure and energy sectors, including data centres, airports, ports, healthcare estates, universities, business parks, BESS developments, EV infrastructure and private wire networks.
• Develop senior relationships with landlords, developers, infrastructure owners, asset managers, consultants and strategic partners to position E.ON as a preferred partner for private network assets.
• Steer the development of commercially compelling propositions, asset valuations, investment cases and acquisition structures that deliver attractive risk‑adjusted returns.
• Create, manage and convert a national pipeline of private network opportunities, maintaining robust forecasting of asset value, gross margin, capital deployment and strategic growth outcomes.
• Collaborate with engineering, regulatory, operations, legal, finance and land rights teams to coordinate due diligence activities and ensure opportunities progress efficiently through governance and approval processes.
• Develop investment papers and approval submissions that support capital deployment choices and demonstrate expected revenue, gross margin and return on investment outcomes.
• Represent E.ON across industry events, conferences, trade bodies and customer forums, raising market awareness of E.ON’s private networks proposition and strengthening market presence.
• Maintain a detailed understanding of industry regulation, market developments, customer drivers and competitor activity to identify opportunities and mitigate commercial risk.
• Support the development of a scalable private networks capability, helping to shape the proposition, processes and ways of working as the market opportunity grows.
• Build relationships across the private networks, infrastructure, investment and energy ecosystem to identify new opportunities and support the continued growth of E.ON’s Private Networks proposition.

What we need from you

• Significant business development, commercial or infrastructure investment experience within the electricity, utility or energy sector.
• Demonstrable experience originating and converting high‑value, complex commercial opportunities.
• Experience developing executive‑level customer and partner relationships.
• Strong commercial negotiation, influencing and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to assess technical, commercial and regulatory risk.
• Experience developing business cases, investment papers and financial proposals.
• Ability to manage opportunities through long and complex sales cycles.
• Strong presentation, communication and analytical capability.

It would be great if you had

• IDNO, ICP or DNO experience.
• Strong understanding of electricity distribution networks, connections and regulated infrastructure markets.

Here’s what you need to know

• Award-Winning Workplace - We’re proud to be named a Sunday Times Best Place to Work 2025 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.

At a glance

Reference no.: 246472 Closing date: 08/10/2026 Salary: £73,018 - £81,424 + Commission (OTE up to £125,000)

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.