Investor Strategy Manager

National Energy System Operator Limited; Warwick; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Cycle to Work

Birthday Day Off

Retirement plan

Job summary

National Energy System Operator (NESO) is seeking an Investor Strategy Manager to lead the investor strategy capability and align investor insight with NESO plans. Based in Warwick with hybrid working, you will build a high-performing team, develop relationships with investors and capital markets, and translate policy and market developments into actionable funding strategies.

You will shape commercial mechanisms and financing approaches across NESO programmes, ensuring financial credibility and

Qualifications

• Proven experience in investor strategy, investor relations, infrastructure investment, capital markets or a related field.
• Experience in energy or infrastructure sector with understanding of commercial mechanisms and financing.
• Strong relationship builder and influencer across senior stakeholders.
• Ability to translate complex policy and market issues into strategic insights.
• Strong leadership skills and hands-on delivery.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for senior audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and delivery of NESO's investor strategy capability, translating organisational priorities, investor insight and market developments into a clear plan of work, and being accountable for the team's output.
• Build trusted relationships with investors and other capital market participants and identify material investor-related risks.
• Embed investor perspectives into NESO's programmes and decisions early to shape them, working with teams across NESO.
• Provide credible investor intelligence that informs strategic decision-making and monitor market conditions and risks.
• Lead commercial advisory work across NESO programmes, developing financing approaches and ensuring solutions are credible and deliverable.
• Provide line management and coaching to specialists as the team grows.

Skills

Investor strategy

Investor relations

Infrastructure investment

Capital markets

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership

Job description

About the Role

About the Role National Energy System Operator (NESO) recognises the potential of bright and talented individuals, and we encourage you to join us as Great Britain’s energy system undergoes an ambitious, exciting, and vital transformation. Together with industry, we are creating a cleaner, more sustainable energy future. The Investor Strategy Manager is a strategically important role that leads NESO's investor strategy capability, ensuring investor perspectives, commercial realities and capital market insights are understood and reflected in NESO's plans, decisions and programmes, supporting investor confidence and the delivery of the energy transition. This role sits within NESO's Investor & Commercial Finance team, which uses commercial and financial insight to challenge and shape technical solutions, ensuring they are financially credible, workable and deliverable. The team asks questions like (What is the financial risk? What is the financial impact? How can this be made workable?) and uses the answers to support better decision-making. Building and leading a specialist team, you will develop and embed NESO's investor strategy capability from the ground up, spanning investor relations and commercial advisory. As this is a new capability, you will be a strong contributor as well as a leader. This role will be based from Warwick, and we continue to offer hybrid working from office and home.

Key Accountabilities

Leading the development and delivery of NESO's investor strategy capability, translating organisational priorities, investor insight and market developments into a clear plan of work, and being accountable for the quality, pace and impact of the team's output in a complex and fast-moving policy and delivery environment. Building trusted relationships with investors and other capital market participants and identify and escalate material investor-related risks. Embedding investor perspectives into NESO's programmes and decisions early enough to shape them, working with teams across NESO to challenge assumptions and translate complex policy, regulatory and market developments into clear implications for investor confidence and capital deployment. Providing credible investor intelligence that informs strategic decision-making, maintaining a strong understanding of investor sentiment, capital market conditions, and emerging risks and opportunities affecting investment in the energy system, and ensuring insight is coordinated, accessible and consistently used across NESO. Leading commercial advisory work across NESO programmes and initiatives, developing and shaping commercial mechanisms, risk allocation, funding structures and financing approaches, and ensuring solutions are commercially credible, financeable and deliverable. Providing line management, coaching to specialists as the team grows, fostering a high-performing and collaborative environment. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK by the start of employment. Visa sponsorship may not be available for this role and will be considered in line with business requirements.

About You

• Proven experience in investor strategy, investor relations, infrastructure investment, capital markets or a related field.
• Experience operating within the energy or infrastructure sector, with a strong understanding of commercial mechanisms, financing arrangements, regulatory frameworks, and the factors influencing investment decisions.
• A strong relationship builder and organisational influencer, able to develop trusted networks across senior stakeholders, navigate organisational complexity and help embed the team's work across NESO.
• Recognised for synthesising complex information into clear strategic insights and recommendations that support senior decision-making.
• Comfortable operating as both a builder and a leader, able to establish new ways of working, develop a high-performing team and remain hands-on in delivery.
• Excellent written and verbal communicator, able to translate complex investor, policy and market issues into clear implications for senior audiences.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to connect investor perspectives to NESO's priorities, programmes and wider system outcomes.
• Strong analytical judgement, with the ability to distinguish material investor signals from general market commentary.

What You'll Get

A competitive salary of £60,000 - £70,000 dependent on experience and capabilityAs well as your base salary, you will receive a bonus of up to 15% of your salary for stretch performance, 28 days annual leave as standard, and a competitive contributory pension scheme where we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%. NESO's flexible benefits programme provides you with more flexibility around your health, lifestyle and protection benefits, here's just a few available:

• Flexible Bank Holidays & Holiday Trading
• Additional Birthday Day Off
• Cycle to Work Scheme, Retail & Gym Discounts
• Private Medical Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance & Personal Accident Insurance

About Us

At the National Energy System Operator (NESO), we play a vital role in tackling climate change and securing Great Britain's energy future. We already operate the world's fastest decarbonising electricity system and are working towards our ambition to run it carbon-free for a short period this year - provided the market supplies electricity exclusively from renewable sources. Alongside this, we provide expert advice to government on how to deliver a clean power system by 2030. In autumn 2024, the Electricity System Operator (ESO) transitioned to become NESO - an independent, expert public corporation with a whole-system view across electricity, gas, and hydrogen. NESO operates independently and transparently, always acting in the best interests of all energy users. Licensed and regulated by Ofgem, we make impartial decisions that balance sustainability, affordability and security. Our organisation is fully independent from government, the regulator and all commercial interests, with a clear focus on system-wide benefit, long term thing and public value. The time to deliver is now. Join the energy transformation and help shape the future. Your energy. Our future. Together.

More Information

This role closes at 23:59, on the day before date shown above, however we encourage candidates to submit their application as early as possible and not wait until the published closing date as this can vary. Research shows that some people may hesitate to apply unless they meet every single requirement. At NESO, we believe potential comes in many forms and we're committed to a fair, inclusive recruitment We're committed to building a workforce that represents the communities we serve, and a working environment in which each individual feels valued, respected, fairly treated, and able to reach their full potential.