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BESS Coordination Lead

E.ON


Job Location:

Solihull - UK

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 22 August 2026 (4 days ago)
Application Deadline: 19 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

We are looking for a BESS Coordination Lead to join our team based at Trinity House Nottingham or Solihull

BESS Coordination Lead
Heres what youll be doing

Salary - 85000 plus company car/car allowance as well as excellent employee benefits
Location- Nottingham or Solihull (Hybrid)

is expanding its UK Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) portfolio and were looking for an EIS UK BESS Coordination Lead to help turn our ambitious pipeline into investable build-ready projects.

This is a pivotal role connecting the UK BESS pipeline with UK Group and Energy Infrastructure Solutions (EIS). The role will coordinate opportunities from initial assessment and M&A due diligence through investment governance execution readiness and Commercial Operations Date (COD).

Working across strategy commercial technical and delivery teams the role will bring structure pace and accountability to a complex high-profile portfolio.

What youll do

  • Own coordination of the UK BESS pipeline from opportunity through to COD.
  • Assess incoming BESS opportunities with M&A against investment criteria and coordinate the acquisition governance process.
  • Lead Gate 0 1 and 2 investment approvals ensuring decisions are robust timely and aligned with BESS Blueprints.
  • Coordinate business cases financial assumptions and commercial inputs across EIS EEM procurement engineering and finance.
  • Drive deployment of BESS Blueprints and Guardrails across the UK and feed project learnings back into central teams.
  • Ensure projects are technically and commercially ready to build including supporting due diligence and acquisition processes.
  • Identify organisational capability and capacity gaps and coordinate actions to address them.
  • Build and lead a high-performing team as the UK BESS portfolio grows.

What we need from you

Youll have significant experience in the energy or infrastructure sector with direct exposure to BESS grid-scale assets or energy markets.

Were looking for:

  • Proven experience managing complex energy or infrastructure projects through investment and delivery stages.
  • Strong understanding of the UK energy market BESS revenue streams and asset value drivers.
  • Experience with business cases financial modelling and investment governance.
  • Ideally knowledge of BESS revenue stacking including frequency response Capacity Market and merchant trading.
  • Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and align senior leaders across a matrix organisation.
  • A structured commercially minded and proactive approach with the ability to drive delivery through ambiguity and complexity.

Heres what you need to know
  • Award-Winning Workplace - Were proud to be named a Sunday Times Best Place to Work 2026 and the Best Place to Work for 1634-year-olds.

  • Outstanding Benefits - Enjoy 26 days of annual leave plus bank holidays a generous pension life cover bonus opportunities and access to 20 flexible benefits with tax/NI savings.

  • Flexible & Family-Friendly - Our industry-leading hybrid and family-friendly policies earned us double recognition at the Personnel Today Awards 2024. Were open to discussing how flexibility can work for you.

  • Inclusive & Diverse - Were the only energy company in the Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers. Were also proud winners of Best Employer for Women and Human Company of the Yearrecognising our inclusive people-first culture.

  • Support at Every Stage of Life - Were Fertility Friendly and Menopause Friendly accredited with inclusive support for everyone.

  • Accessible & Supportive - Do you consider yourself as having a disability As a Disability Confident Employer we ensure that disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria move forward to the next stage of our recruitment process and will make any adjustments needed during the process.

  • Invested in Your Growth - From inclusive talent networks to top-tier development programmes well support your growth every step of the way.

At a glance
Reference no.: 246002Closing date: 03/09/2026 Salary: MM4
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For more information about the role please contact Elliott Elisabeth <>

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is a privately owned international energy company. Our 75000 colleagues in 15 countries work daily towards the improvement of technical innovations and user-friendly customer solutions for the new energy world. We are the first large energy company to focus more heavily upon the energy of the future through our three business areas of energy networks renewable energies and customer solutions.
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