Head of UK Customer Asset Solutions

Base Location: Reading, Manchester, Glasgow, Perth, Cardiff, London. You'll be expected to spend a minimum 50% of your working week in an SSE location.

Salary: Competitive+ car allowance + performance-related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family

Working Pattern: Permanent Full Time Flexible First options available

Make low carbon solutions easier, smarter and more affordable for business customers.

About the role

• Strategic route to market leadership - Lead the strategy and route to market for behind the meter and wider low carbon solutions for business customers across Great Britain, with accountability for delivering agreed growth targets.
• Growth opportunity development - Identify, assess and prioritise growth opportunities, turning market insight into clear commercial plans, investable propositions and scalable revenue streams.
• Partnerships and delivery models - Build and maintain high impact internal and external partnerships to enable delivery, including frameworks and third party delivery models that support profitable growth.
• Portfolio and P&L ownership - Own P&L performance across the portfolio, with full accountability for financial outcomes, governance, risk management and operational delivery.
• Senior customer engagement - Lead strategic customer engagement and major negotiations, representing the business with credibility and clarity at executive level to secure long term commercial value.

About you

• Proven strategic leadership experience within a customer solutions, sales, commercial or energy services environment, including accountability for P&L performance and evidence of delivering profitable growth.
• Strong commercial understanding of low carbon solutions such as solar, battery storage and demand side flexibility, including knowledge of commercial drivers, risk management and end to end delivery.
• Deep knowledge of GB energy markets and the policy landscape, with the ability to assess market trends, regulatory change and competitive dynamics and translate these into commercially viable opportunities.
• Demonstrated commercial drive and ambition, with a track record of setting challenging goals, maintaining pace, and improving business performance through decisive leadership.
• Inclusive, values led people leadership capability, with strong communication skills and experience influencing senior stakeholders.

About SSE

SSE's purpose is to provide energy needed today while building a better world of energy for tomorrow. We do this by developing, building, operating and investing in electricity infrastructure and businesses needed in the energy transition. Our Transforming for Growth investment plan sees us investing £33bn in critical electricity infrastructure across the five years to 2030.

SSE Energy Customer Solutions serves over 1.3 million households and businesses across the UK and Ireland. We help our customers accelerate their net zero ambitions by providing energy and low carbon energy solutions. These include EV hubs, solar systems, smart technologies, and heating and cooling networks.

Flexible benefits to fit your life

Enjoy discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships. Wellbeing benefits like a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service. Interest free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme. As well as generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.

Work with an equal opportunity employer

SSE will make any reasonable adjustments you need to ensure that your application and experience with us is positive. Please contact Charlene on / to discuss how we can support you.

We're dedicated to fostering an open and inclusive workplace where people from all backgrounds can thrive. We create equal opportunities for everyone to succeed and especially welcome applications from those who may not be well represented in our workforce or industry.