Remote Private Networks Growth Manager

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

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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

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