Country Manager UK London, England
Job description
As our Country Manager you are responsible for achieving our mission to make solar energy accessible for everyone. Your main job is to build and scale our new business unit in the UK. For this role an entrepreneurial and ambitious mindset is key.
Soly is a supplier of solar energy to residential and small commercial clients. With your skills and motivation we will become one of the leading solar companies in Europe.
Will you help us with our mission? Solar energy accessible to all. It's possible.
As our Country Manager, you’ll:
- Be in charge of expanding and scaling our new UK operations including building your own team.
- Act as the key representative for Soly in the UK and build, manage and grow new strategic partnerships.
- Build strong collaboration with all functional teams to ensure alignment & deliver the best possible experience for our UK residential customers.
- Manage your own P&L and take care of running your operations as efficiently as possible.
- Independently monitor you and your team's performance along the company targets.
- Directly report to the company’s founders and act as a sparring partner, providing ideas and initiatives that drive growth and improve the user experience.
Why join Soly
Soly was founded in 2013 with the mission to make solar energy accessible for everyone. Since then we have grown rapidly and have installed solar systems at 30,000 rooftops. We are active in The Netherlands, South Africa, Belgium and Germany and focus on the turn-key supply of solar systems to both residential and commercial clients. The company is one of the leading solar companies in Europe and venture capital backed by Shell Ventures and pension fund ABP.
- We offer you an exciting job in a fast growing and ambitious B2C and B2B solar scale up, with the opportunity to make affordable and sustainable solar energy possible for thousands of people per year.
- Take responsibility from day one! With us, you have the freedom to drive your topics forward independently and to follow a steep learning curve.
- We offer an attractive compensation package including a monthly salary, performance related bonus and possibility to join as a shareholder via our employee stock option plan.
- Work in our new office in London, surrounded by highly skilled and motivated colleagues, daily lunches and regular drinks and larger team events.
What we are looking for
- +5 years experience working in fast-paced environments (consulting, IB, early-stage, scale-up).
- Proven strong experience in scaling a consumer business from the scale up stage to majority.
- Experienced & inspiring leader, who is capable of operating across functional lines, influencing a wide range of stakeholders.
- Analytical mindset & hands-on strategist who will develop, build and leverage a holistic understanding of the local users & the business
- You come with an entrepreneurial mindset, eager to innovate, and are hands-on in driving initiatives to success.
- Eligibility to work fulltime in the London office is not 100% required, but would be preferred
- We are looking for a leader with a passion or interest for sustainability and renewable energy
Do you want to know more about the vacancy?
Call or email our Chief People & Culture Officer Petra Santing, she will be happy to help you: +31 85 401 78 59 or [email protected]
Good to know:
During our selection process, we only look at the qualities of the candidates. You therefore do not have to add your age, gender, origin or a photo of yourself to your CV. In doing so, we follow our Hiring Code of Conduct.
We are a B Corp: Business as a force for good
Thousands of households and companies switch to solar energy with us every year. This not only means our sustainable impact is large, but we also have a chain that has a major impact on the earth and countless (direct or indirect) stakeholders. As B Corp, we do everything we can to ensure that this impact is positive for our customers, employees, factory workers, the environment and everything else we have an impact on.
Being a B Corp is hard work, but it ensures that we are always critical of ourselves and bring out the best in Solyl. We set high standards for ourselves, as you can read in our Climate Action Report. But it is precisely those challenges that give us energy.
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Flexitime
- Gym membership
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Store discount
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person
