Commercial Manager - Asset Logistics Optimisation 12 month FTC

Role OVOView

12 month FTC

Team: Commercial Supplier Management

Salary banding:

Experience:Expert

Working pattern: FullTime

Reporting to: Melanie Durston Senior Commercial & Contract Manager Metering and Logistics

Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

This role in 3 words: Fast Paced Data & System oriented Commerciallydriven

Top 3 qualities for this role: Changeagent Dataled Dynamic Leader

Where youll work:

Depending on the needs of your business area we expect hub based people to be in the office at least once a week and to go to OVO Connection events inperson.

Youll be assigned to the closest one of our three hub offices Bristol Glasgow or London; unless your role requires fieldbased work. Each hub has accessible spaces to park your laptop is designed to inspire people help them connect and bring big ideas to life.

Everyone belongs at OVO

At OVO we are on a mission to solve one of humanitys biggest challenges the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. Thats why we need diverse people from all abilities gender identities ethnicities ages sexual orientations life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

Teamworking for the planet

Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So naturally the team youll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Heres how:

Were hiring worldchangers. From Zero Carbon Living Advisors to Product Managers every role were hiring plays their own part in our mission; our role is to find those people and bring them on our Zero Carbon journey.

This role in a nutshell:

You will be responsible for maximising value received from our assets through an optimised and agile stock control strategy that ensures the timely sale to our MAPs. You will manage a small operational team responsible for ensuring that assets are successfully delivered to our logistics partner and distributed to our field engineers in a timely manner in accordance with your stock strategy and for the sale of our installed assets to our MAPs. Accurate data is a prerequisite for the smooth delivery of your teams activities and youll champion improvements in our data access handling storage and reporting.

Youll ensure that your team can report against our KPIs and youll support and manage improvement against the same KPIs making recommendations for change as necessary to drive additional value for OVO.

We are looking for someone who enjoys working as part of a team with excellent relationship management skills and who is an inspiring leader. You will need excellent commercial awareness previous experience working within supply chain particularly Forward Logistics and excellent data and analytical skills; attention to detail is essential for this role coupled with the ability to interpret summarise and challenge data.

A strong understanding of the energy industry is ideal. You will be a highly effective organiser adaptable to change with excellent communication skills and capable of accurately identifying key issues and communicating them across a number of levels and teams. We require you to have a natural ability to influence stakeholders and maintain good relationships.

Your key outcomes will be:

• You will own the service delivery performance for the Forward Logistics aspects of our Logistics partner contracts. Working collaboratively with our partners you will ensure OVO receives optimum service against key KPIs.
• Creating and optimising the meter mix strategy for OVOs MAP portfolio. Youll ensure that SKU management and forward logistics processes are optimised for maximum benefit to OVO and operational delivery by your team.
• You will own OVOs SKU management strategy ensuring it is always optimised to meet OVOs commercial commitments. This will involve:
• proactively monitoring install performance against our MAP allocation and install forecasts
• managing the governance and recommendations for changes to asset availability to OVO Field and partners to ensure best cost per meter sale can be achieved
• where stock cannot be optimised for install you will agree contractual mitigation with the wider SRM team if stock becomes obsolete you will make recommendations for write off.
• Overseeing your team in delivering the monthly accreditation process with our MAPs ensuring they are targeted with maximising revenue inmonth.
• Working with your own team OVO Field and 3rd party installers youll ensure availability of ancillary smart metering assets such as Regulators and IHDs collaborating with OVO Field to make sure there is no significant detrimental impact to install times.
• Assisting pilot teams to ensure pilot assets are appropriately available in OVO Field and being the key stakeholder within the team for business changes as they relate to Asset Control.
• Supporting and communicating with OVO Field on asset changes outages or issues while endeavouring to make the asset offering as simple but as commercially optimised as possible. Ensuring our messaging aligns with the Field Operational teams.
• Producing regular reporting and analysis to monitor monthly MAP sales revenue and deferred/Longstop rental costs (including progress against KPIs) Age of stock mix and stocks installable status. You will provide reporting for internal stakeholders to OVO Finance and to our MAPs adjusting your delivery for the audience.

Youll be successfulin this role at OVO if you

• Experience of managing forward logistics activities including strategy development of the same. Understanding of the end to end lifecycle of serialised energy industry assets
• Highly numerate with experience of interpreting numerical data and advanced Excel skills
• Project and process mapping and improvement
• Aware of the commercial impact of decisions with experience of optimising for commercial value
• Energy industry systems and dataflow experience
• Management experience
• Report development analysis and insight
• Able to make independent decisions even when under pressure
• Strong stakeholder management
• CIPs Level 4 or equivalent qualification desirable
• Excellent organisation and planning skills ability to work to deadlines dealing with changing priorities whilst managing own time effectively
• Ability to reprioritise your workload in a fast paced environment
• Great understanding of data and systems
• Excellent communication skills and understanding of your audience
• Good time management
• Attention to detail
• Ability to keep it simple and provide clear and concise information
• Confidence when speaking to other departments in the business
• Leadership skills
• Lives and breathes the OVO Values and wants to build a great place for their team to work

Lets talk about whats in it for you

Well pay you between 45000 and 60000 depending on your specific skills and experience. If your expectations are a little different have a chat with us!

We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us and you flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission.

Youll be eligible for an ontarget bonus of 15. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal.

We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVOand theres flex pay. Well give you 9 Flex Pay on top of your salary 4 of this is auto enrolled into your pension and the remaining 5 is yours to do what you like with. You can use this to buy from our extensive range of flexible benefits including our green benefits which weve put at the heart of our offering add to your pension or even take it as cash.

Heres a taster of whats on offer:

For starters youll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays).

For your health
With benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level critical illness cover life assurance health assessments and more

For your wellbeing
With gym membership travel insurance workplace ISA will writing services dental insurance and more

For your lifestyle
With extra holiday buying discount dining home & tech loans and supporting your favourite charities with giveasyouearn donations

For your home
Get up to 400 towards any OVO Energy plan plus great discounts on solar smart thermostats and EV chargers

For your commute
Nab a great deal on ultralow emission car leasing plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans

Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

For your Belonging

To find better ways to support our people we need to listen to each others experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people for our people so when you join OVO you can play a part big or small with any of the Networks. Its up to you.

Oh and one last thing...

Wed be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes yet we also believe its just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what were looking for but not every single thing go ahead and hit apply. Wed still love to hear from you!

If you have any additional requirements theres a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible..

Required Experience:

Manager