Margin Lead

Small Business Margin Lead
 

Do you have strong leadership skills?
 

Are you highly skilled at undertaking complex commercial analysis and making decisions which balance commercial and customer needs?
 

If so, we may have the perfect opportunity for you here at EDF as a Small Business Margin Lead!
 

The Opportunity
 

As a Small Business Margin Lead you will be a commercial specialist, providing inspirational leadership and strong commercial acumen in the non-domestic supply market.
 

Pay, benefits and culture
 

Alongside a starting salary of £54,400 and a market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits to support our people across all aspects of their lives. 
 

Your rewards package includes a choice of benefits, such as electric vehicle leasing, enhanced parental leave, health insurance, discounts and employee pricing.
 

Flexible working means you can work from home (if you wish) and we’ll provide a suite of IT equipment to ensure that you can work remotely comfortably and effectively. You will however be required to visit one of our offices once a week for team collaboration (Hove, Exeter or Doxford).
 

At EDF, everyone’s welcome. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone has a voice and where you feel confident being yourself. We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility. 
 

We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, adjusting as you need. 
 

We’ll value the difference you bring and offer opportunities for you to thrive and succeed. 
 

What you’ll be doing
 

As the Small Business Margin Lead, you will deputise for the Senior Leader of Small Business Margin as required leading key meetings. You’ll lead the end-end processes from price setting to price load, ensuring these processes are both fast and responsive and robust.
 

You’ll constantly be assessing the commercial landscape to identify key opportunities to create value and will be conducting detailed analysis on our products, costs and operating context to define our margin targets.
 

Reviewing forecast scenarios and managing hedging submissions, you will lead on the delivery and pricing approach for new innovative products and will provide commercial business partnering across wider the Retail team in key areas (e.g. contract negotiations, new sales channels, investment appraisals).
 

Managing a team of three, you will provide mentoring and support for margin analysts and also the wider Commercial and Performance family.
 

Who you are 
 

Leadership and relationship building 
•    Ability to inspire and engage our analyst community, providing support and mentorship
•    Excellent relationship builder able to work effectively across the organisation on commercial topics, while providing value input and perspectives on non-commercial topics
Commercial analysis / decision-making
•    Comfortable undertaking exploratory data analytics on large data sets to identify meaningful trends and patterns within data and inform pricing decision
•    Ability to weigh up multiple scenarios, consider multiple factors and present options / outcomes to aid decision
•    Competent in reviewing financial outputs and drawing interpretations around performance
•    Accounting qualification (e.g. CIMA/ACCA) or MBA would be desirable
Presentation skills
•    Strong presentational skills and ability to confidently put forward recommendations
•    A track record of influencing others
Market and regulatory context
•    Strong understanding of the market and regulatory context within which we operate and ability to represent this in decision-making

Closing date for applications: 30.04.2024
Location: Hove, Exeter, Doxford with home working
 

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