Shift Trading Manager

🕒 May 6

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EPUKI

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501 - 1000 employees

EPUK Investments Ltd (EPUKI) is the UK division of Energetický a průmyslový holdings (EPH), a leading energy group of over 70 companies that owns and operates assets across Europe. EPH group employs circa 25,000 people internationally, owns €16.7bn of assets, generating €8.6bn of revenue and an EBITDA of €2.1bn.

📋 Description

• Overseeing daily trading desk operations, ensuring all transactions are executed with accuracy, compliance, and alignment to agreed strategies and risk frameworks. • Directing the shift team in optimising portfolio dispatch across wholesale and balancing markets, with particular focus on managing elevated technical and market risk. • Leading and developing the shift trading team by providing clear guidance, monitoring performance, and resolving operational challenges in real time. • Ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, trading guidelines, and internal processes during all trading shifts. • Supporting recruitment by conducting initial candidate assessments, assisting with onboarding, and contributing to trader training and development. • Monitoring and reporting on team performance against operational KPIs and shift objectives, highlighting key risks and opportunities. • Acting as the first point of escalation for operational, market, or system issues and co-ordinating effective resolution under pressure. • Maintaining proactive communication with the Trading Manager and Senior Traders, ensuring alignment on market strategy, shift performance and emerging risks. • Supporting the development and production of reporting mechanisms and board packs. • Driving continuous improvement initiatives to enhance trading processes, tools, and workflows. • Fostering a culture of accountability, accuracy, and operational discipline within the trading team.

🎯 Requirements

• Solid understanding of short-term GB power and gas market operations, including intraday and day-ahead trading. • Working knowledge of trading platforms, position management tools, and operational reporting systems. • In depth understanding of regulatory requirements, compliance standards, and risk management frameworks within energy trading. • Demonstrated track record in an energy trading environment, preferably with exposure to intraday or short-term markets. • Experience leading, supervising or mentoring a trading or operations team. • Practical involvement in delivering day-to-day trading activities and resolving operational challenges. • Familiarity with recruiting and onboarding trading team members, including initial candidate screening. • Exposure to pricing commercial contracts such as ancillary services. • Experience with automation, algorithmic trading or BESS optimisation (desirable). • Degree in a STEM, economics, mathematics, engineering, finance, or a related discipline (or equivalent industry experience).