Technical Solutions Manager

Jobs For Planet; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobs For Planet in London, UK, seeks a seasoned Technical Solutions & Client Delivery Manager to lead the Technical Solutions function and build a scalable Client Delivery organisation. This player-coach role combines strategic leadership with hands-on delivery for complex customer implementations.

You will work across Sales, Customer Success, Product and Engineering, shaping processes, ensuring successful onboarding, and driving value from the platform for strategic customers.

Qualifications

• Experience in SaaS implementation, consulting, or technical account management involving complex business processes.
• Experience in energy, commodity trading, banking, or a similarly complex industry.
• STEM education or equivalent quantitative/technical background.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills.
• Excellent communication with technical and senior business stakeholders.
• Experience mentoring or leading a team.
• Knowledge of a scripting language, preferably Python, for process automation.
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve end-to-end client implementation and delivery processes.
• Establish scalable processes, project discipline, and effective ways of working.
• Monitor project health, identify risks, and intervene when needed.
• Lead, coach, and develop the Technical Solutions team.
• Allocate accounts and projects and optimise team planning.
• Collaborate with Sales, Customer Success, Product and Engineering.
• Translate customer requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Drive integrations and automation where appropriate, not an engineering role.

Skills

SaaS Implementation

Team Leadership

Stakeholder Management

Technical Solutions

Python Scripting

Excel

PowerPoint

Problem Solving

Education

STEM Education background

Job description

Technical Solutions & Client Delivery Manager

About the Company

The company is a fast-growing technology company providing a SaaS platform in the clean energy space.

The Role

The company is looking for an experienced Technical Solutions & Client Delivery Manager to lead its Technical Solutions function and establish a scalable Client Delivery organisation.

The role sits at the crossroads of Sales, Customer Success, Product, and Engineering, with direct responsibility for customer delivery and implementation.

This is a player coach role alongside leading the team and improving processes, the successful candidate will personally manage selected complex customer implementations.

Responsibilities

Client Delivery & Team Leadership

• Own and improve the end-to-end client implementation and delivery process.
• Establish scalable processes, project discipline, and effective ways of working.
• Monitor project health, identify risks, and escalation or intervene when required.
• Lead, coach, and develop the Technical Solutions team.
• Allocate accounts and projects and establish effective team planning and rituals.
• Help shape the future structure and capabilities of the Client Delivery organisation.

Customer Implementation

• Personally manage selected complex or strategically important implementations.
• Analyse customer systems including ETRMs, billing platforms, ERPs, and CRMs.
• Understand customer data structures and design robust integration strategies.
• Translate complex business requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Contribute to integrations through scripting or automation when appropriate. This is not an engineering role, but technical fluency is important.
• Work directly with customers to resolve issues and drive implementation plans through to completion.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Sales and Customer Success on onboarding and selected pre-sales activities.
• Support technical discovery and product demonstrations where relevant.
• Identify opportunities to address customer needs through additional platform capabilities or new projects.
• Work closely with Product to translate customer feedback and implementation challenges into product improvements.
• Contribute to strategic and cross-functional projects.

Experience & Skills

• Experience in business analysis, consulting, auditing, SaaS implementation, technical account management, or a similar role involving complex business processes, systems, and data.
• Experience in energy, commodity trading, banking, or another complex industry.
• STEM education or equivalent quantitative/technical background.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work with technical and senior business stakeholders.
• Experience managing, mentoring, or leading a team.
• Ability to translate complex business requirements into practical solutions.
• Knowledge of a scripting language, preferably Python, and an interest in using LLMs to automate workflows in a controlled way.
• Advanced Excel and strong PowerPoint skills.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with high levels of responsibility.

Nice to Have

• Startup or remote-working experience.
• Knowledge of energy-sector systems such as CRMs, ETRMs, billing and accounting platforms.
• Understanding of utility processes across front, middle, and back office.
• Experience delivering complex enterprise software implementations.

Why Join?

This is an opportunity to build and shape a Client Delivery function, develop a growing team, work directly clients and influence both product and commercial strategy.

The role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex problems, working across business and technology, leading people, and building scalable processes from the ground up.

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