Optimisation Manager

🕒 December 19, 2025

🏢🏡 London – Hybrid

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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Octopus Energy

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2016

⚡ Energy

📡 Telecommunications

Energy • Telecommunications

Octopus Energy is a UK-based energy supplier that offers innovative smart tariffs and renewable energy solutions. Known for its award-winning customer service and commitment to a greener future, Octopus Energy provides great value for the long term with prices historically cheaper than any other large supplier. As one of Europe's leading investors in renewable energy generation, the company is highly trusted, holding a five-star customer service rating. Octopus Energy offers a variety of tariffs tailored for smart meters, solar energy, and electric vehicles, emphasizing cost savings and environmental benefits. Octopus Energy has also expanded internationally with operations in several countries, including Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, and the USA.

📋 Description

• Market expert. Understand, define, and disseminate functional requirements from the full range of markets and services. • Strategy owner. Evaluate market and service structures, identify participation criteria for all relevant asset and customer types, and then develop applicable strategies in partnership with the Trading team. • Creative thinker. Identify key opportunities and fundamental barriers, and take a pragmatic approach to solution design. • Action-oriented. Lead the charge in advocating market and service simplification and lowering the barriers to entry through detailed understanding of the existing structures, engagement with all relevant internal and external stakeholders and by proving capabilities in the real world • Analytical mindset. Use data and analysis to inform decision making. Work closely with the Data Science team to scope investigations and validate insights. • Clear Communicator. Translate product, market and operational requirements into clear and concise technical requirements for analysts and developers • Ownership. Accountable and responsible for coordinating with internal commercial, policy, product and engineering team members to ensure successful participation in all selected services

🎯 Requirements

• Strong working knowledge of energy and grid service markets (bias towards GB but with the ability to generalise globally), as well as grid-tied technologies, such as PV, wind, demand response, and storage. • Demonstrated techno-economic and financial modelling expertise, both rapid and comprehensive • Experience digesting and translating technical requirements and policy/regulatory information for commercial applicability • An ability to respond to complicated briefs from stakeholders, make decisions and communicate appropriate strategies • An agile mindset; you can both nurture a commercial offering and optimise the implementation to the smallest detail • An ability to pick up work in a fast paced environment with a willingness to learn • Entrepreneurial instincts with clear bias for informed action and track record of leading new initiatives with limited resources and support • An ability to relate to individuals and nurture other team members • Excellent communication and documentation skills • Experience with Python and SQL would be a bonus • An interest in sustainability, green energy and Net Zero power systems

🏖️ Benefits

• 💰 Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus - what's more important to us is finding the right octofit! • 🎉 Octopus Energy Group is a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! We were recently named the UK's top company to work for, and we ranked in the top ten in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024. Our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people. We’ve also been placed in the top 10 companies for senior leadership • 🎁 Visit our UK perks hub - Octopus Employee Benefits