Strategy Manager

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time, 37.5 hours per week

Salary: circa £67,000 depending on experience

Location: Canary Wharf

WFH policy: Employees are required to attend the office 2 days/week

Flexible working: Variety of flexible work patterns subject to line manager discretion e.g. Compressed 9-day fortnight.

Reports to: Strategy & Shareholder Lead

Deadline Note: We reserve the right to close the advert before the advertised deadline if there are a high volume of applications.

Role Summary:

Are you proactive, analytical and collaborative with experience in strategy or transformation, either through a management consultancy, or through an internal strategy role? Looking for an exciting and highly rewarding new career opportunity? Energised by LCCC’s mission to accelerate the delivery of Net Zero?

LCCC is looking for a Strategy Manager to become a core member of our Strategy team, and play an important role in helping the organisation develop and ultimately achieve its mission.

This role is for you if you…

• Are a proactive ‘do-er’ – you enjoy getting things done, and seeing improvement and change
• Enjoy a fast-paced, dynamic environment working across a broad and interesting variety of tasks and stakeholders simultaneously
• Enjoy building collaborative relationships across an organisation
• Are curious and creative – you like exploring new ways of working and thinking
• Want to be a part of growing and scaling a mission-driven organisation

About LCCC

LCCC is central to the delivery of the Government’s objective to achieve Net Zero target by 2050. Our roles are expanding and diversifying beyond renewable electricity generation, to support the development of other low carbon technologies such as hydrogen and carbon capture, usage and storage. LCCC is at a pivotal point in time; advising on, implementing and soon-to-be operating a growing number of these schemes. It is an exciting time for a proactive and driven Strategy Manager to support the effective growth and development of LCCC.

The Team

LCCC’s Strategy and Shareholder team plays a central role in ensuring LCCC has a clear path to achieving its mission; including through delivering the strategy cycle and business planning. The team also takes on a variety of special projects to help identify and solve issues of strategic importance and capture emerging opportunities. We work in a collaborative, cross-departmental way at all levels. The team regularly engages with and shares findings and recommendations with the CEO, Executive Team, Board and DESNZ. This is an exciting area to have an impact given the scale of growth and change LCCC is experiencing as we take on new schemes, in new Net Zero areas.

Key Responsibilities

The Strategy Manager will work in close collaboration with colleagues in the Strategy and Shareholder team and beyond. The role has three core focus areas;

1. Managing the design and delivery of the annual strategy cycle and business planning to determine what the organisation needs to prioritise to achieve its objectives.
2. Driving and supporting discrete strategic projects ranging from a few weeks to several months or more, to help LCCC deliver on its strategy.
3. Communicating and enabling progress and performance across the organisation.

More detailed responsibilities have been articulated below:

Managing the Annual Strategy cycle – Managing the design and delivery of the annual strategy cycle to assess our strategy, propose any adjustments, and determine what the organisation needs to prioritise to achieve its objectives. This includes:

• Designing and delivering workshops for senior stakeholders (CEO, Executive team, Board) to identify areas for improvement.
• Independently leading internal and external analysis utilising appropriate strategic frameworks, defining key strategic questions, and developing options and roadmaps.
• Developing and documenting the company’s strategic direction; translating themes into actionable initiatives and projects that consider resource needs.
• Supporting the Performance team in developing the company’s scorecard, so that it is in line with the company’s strategic objectives.
• Working with teams and stakeholders to drive engagement and alignment.

Managing Business Planning - Managing the design and delivery of the business plan.

• Facilitating engagement across the business at Heads of level to collate information on our portfolio of schemes and projects.
• Collaborating with Finance to define resourcing and financial projections.
• Analysing the information and creating business planning documentation including themes, risks, dependencies, and efficiency opportunities.

Driving or supporting strategic projects –

• Guiding individuals at Heads and Executive levels across the organisation to scope and plan strategic projects (typically from the strategy process), track and manage the delivery of projects, undertake research and analysis, and present insights, options and recommendations.

Communication and engagement –

• Building strong trusted relationships around the organisation and helping different new joiners and teams identify and articulate their contributions to LCCC’s overall strategy.

Supporting Performance Reporting –

• Collaborating with the Performance team to facilitate strategy and business plan reviews, ensuring accurate reporting of progress against the business plan.
• Working with the Performance team to support the development of annual end-of-year corporate performance score and report.
• Working with the Shareholder team to provide input into the Annual Report.

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

Essential:

• Demonstrable experience applying a variety of strategy development and execution frameworks appropriate to context.
• Demonstrable experience driving project-based problem-solving and delivery in collaboration with a variety of senior stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently / autonomously to deliver work.
• Workshop design and facilitation.
• Analytical skills – comfortable and efficient deriving insights from quantitative and qualitative information.
• Communication and presentation skills (including the use of PowerPoint for communicating ideas and structuring options).

Desirable:

• Degree in Business Administration/Management, Prince2 or other relevant qualifications desirable.
• Strategy or transformation experience – ideally 1-3 years of management consulting, strategy or transformation experience.
• Experience of working in the energy sector and/or government environments would be beneficial but not essential.

Employee Benefits

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. Key benefits that may be available depending on the role include:

• 25 days' annual leave and bank holidays
• Recognition schemes allowing colleagues to say thanks
• Company contribution to your pension scheme
• Family friendly policies, including enhanced company maternity/paternity and shared parental benefits
• Employee assistance programme for free, confidential support for your professional or personal life, including financial management and family care
• Special leave such as study leave, sabbatical or public duties
• Three days paid leave a year for volunteering to support your local community
• Season ticket loan scheme to support your commute
• Access to “Work Perks” offering deals, discounts and cash back on your purchases
• Family savings on days out and English Heritage or gym discounts through our partners.

About Low Carbon Contracts Company

The Low Carbon Contracts Company (LCCC) exists to help decarbonise the generation of electricity and make it more affordable for the future. Our work is central to the delivery of the Government’s objective to achieve Net Zero target by 2050.

LCCC’s main responsibility, amongst many, is managing the Contracts for Difference (CfDs) scheme which are agreements LCCC has made with renewable generators. These agreements are private law contracts to provide investors with confidence when investing in low carbon technology. CfDs are also designed to help and manage price increases for consumers, when electricity prices are high. See here for more information on how CfDs work: LCCC CfD Video on Vimeo.

LCCC’s other responsibilities include management of money flows across energy suppliers to fund the CfD portfolio, settlement of the capacity market and develop new schemes. Find out more about all that we do by visiting our main page.

Want to know what’s important to us and what’s expected? See here: Values | Low Carbon Contracts Company Careers (pinpointhq.com).

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