Power Commercial Lead

About VEV

VEV specialises in designing and implementing scaled enterprise fleet solutions. Our expertise lies in optimising fleets, charging infrastructure, and operations to maximise the benefits of transitioning to sustainable transportation. With a wealth of experience in delivering comprehensive turnkey charging solutions at scale, we are committed to guiding organisations through a seamless transition towards a greener future.

If you are passionate about sustainable transportation, innovation, and making a positive impact, we invite you to join us  a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to work on groundbreaking projects, collaborate with industry experts, and drive meaningful change in the world of e-mobility.

Flexible – with regular travel to London headquarters.

At VEV we are growing our power supply and optimisation commercial function, aimed at creating additional value for C&I customers through using our VEV IQ platform. Our smart charging algorithms bridge the gap between power markets, the needs of EV fleets, and our ability to forecast and control when charging can most optimally occur. Our TPI brokerage and our electricity supply model allow us to tailor Industrial & Commercial (I&C) electricity supply to suit the needs of our EV fleet customers.

Working across the business, the successful candidate will be helping to shape a core pillar of VEV.

• Lead thinking within VEV on the role of power optimisation as a scalable pillar within the business to drive long-term value creation
• Identify and build partnerships to provide market access for VEV and our customers in power supply and power flexibility services
• Leading VEV’s power and optimisation offer development (in partnership with VEV’s Commercial Function) to understand customers’ current and future needs for power, and to lead the design of commercial structures to create value and manage risk
• Accountable for the regulatory and reporting requirements of our TPI brokerage and supply model
• Collaborate across VEV, particularly with the Product and Projects functions, to clarify needs and ensure alignment with the roadmap for VEV’s digital platform and with project design specs, leading thinking about trade-offs between short and long-term costs
• Provide ongoing account management to customers to ensure that they understand their ongoing costs and risks, along with opportunities to create additional value

This is a broad position which requires a blend of commercial acumen, customer account management, technical understanding, and deep energy system knowledge. This role combines energy market and solutions expertise with direct customer engagement. Over time, our expectation is that this role will become more focused as the team grows – the successful candidate will have the opportunity to inform the shaping of the development of the team.

• Leading the development and delivery of VEV’s power supply & optimisation offer, for multiple target customer groups, in partnership with VEV’s Commercial Function
• Establish and grow power supply, flexibility and optimisation opportunities, through analysing customer needs, demonstrating innovative and novel value opportunities, and converting these into commercial opportunities
• Building models to support cost & value forecasting for power supply, optimisation & flexibility, and for tracking contract performance
• Performance analysis and reporting (in partnership with our Power and Data Analysts), utilising operational and meter data, bills, cost of power, including reconciling any errors
• Ensuring compliance with regulatory and reporting requirements of our power market access models
• Enabling customer onboarding/offboarding for power supplies (new and transfers) to ensure regulatory requirements are met (e.g. metering, billing, reporting), including working with project teams, MOPs, DNOs/iDNOs, and power suppliers
• Preparing for and delivering monthly account management, including volume reforecasting and hedge management
• Remaining abreast of industry changes to electricity markets and costs and informing/leading the…