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PPA Sales Executive

VN560

GBP 33,000 - GBP 40,000

Permanent

Full Time

Good Energy helps customers generate, share, store, use and travel with clean power. Our aim is to help one million homes and businesses cut their carbon by 2025. We are developing smart services to support customers to do more with their renewable energy.

We supply truly renewable electricity sourced from over 1,700 generators across the UK. Our tariffs are independently certified with the Uswitch Green Tariff Gold Standard and we are accredited as an Eco Provider by Which?

Now we’re in an exciting period of significant growth and development, after recently expanding our business to provide energy services, including installing heat pumps and solar panels.

We’re also a major investor in Zap-Map, the UK’s go-to electric vehicle charging app with more than half a million registered users.

Our customer service is rated ‘excellent’ on TrustPilot and according to Best Companies, we’re a ‘World Class’ employer — in the top 100 best large companies to work for in the country.

If you’re ready to make combatting the climate crisis your job, and believe in our values of being, fair, straightforward, focused, and inclusive, then we want to hear from you. Let’s power a cleaner, greener future together.

We’re looking for an experienced PPA Sales Executive to join our Origination team and wider Sales function. In this role you’ll be responsible for the provision of pricing to new and existing small-to-medium sized renewable electricity SmartGen generators. This area of the export market is seen as high-growth to Good Energy and will therefore involve a substantial degree of customer contact and efficient coordination of internal resources to ensure Good Energy’s high standards of service are met.

You’ll be assisting the wider Sales team with achieving volume and margin targets, including a high level of retention of our SmartGen PPA customers. In this role you’ll produce power purchase agreement (PPA) quotes and negotiate prices with generators and secure deals for our customers.

Accountabilities:

Establishing and maintaining positive and effective relationships with prospective and current generators and installers. Strong ability to convert prospective relationships into current business.

Engaging with and fostering positive relationships with SmartGen PPA brokers.

Managing and delivering ad hoc projects relating to the improvement of Good Energy’s products and services.

Assisting and enabling implementation of new generators through the grid connection and meter installation process.

Maintaining the accuracy and integrity of all data in relation to SmartGen PPA contracts.

Fielding and prioritising a wide variety of generation queries via telephone and email.

You’ll have previous experience of working in the energy industry and have a keen interest in renewable electricity generation. We’re looking for someone who is a confident and engaging communicator and is able to convey complicated subjects to customers in easy to comprehend terms. You will have proven experience of building relationships to maximise commercial value. Our industry is always changing so you’ll need to be flexible and able to adapt to changing market conditions and revisions to the company’s procurement strategy.

As a well-organised and tenacious individual, you'll use your prioritisation skills to effectively manage your time and efficiently fulfil customer pricing demands. You’ll have a good eye for detail and be comfortable working within tried-and-tested processes and will be able to work under your own initiative with a proactive approach to delivering results and meeting deadlines.

Essential:

Highly literate and numerate.

Must be proficient in the use of Microsoft Excel

Experience of building relationships to maximise commercial value.

An excellent eye for detail.

Have a proactive approach to delivering results and meeting deadlines.

Desirable:

Experience of wholesale electricity market and pricing is highly advantageous.

Experience of using Microsoft Access.

We’re committed to being an inclusive employer and creating a fair workplace for all. We encourage applications from people across all backgrounds, circumstances, ages, disabilities, ethnicities, religions or beliefs, gender identities or sexual orientations.

We can offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them. If you would like to discuss anything, please let our team know.

Here’s a sample of the benefits we offer. Check out our careers page for more.

25 days plus bank holidays, a day off for your birthday, the option to buy more twice a year and additional days off for long service.

£500 annual Remote working allowance – supporting the costs of working from home

£500 annual Travel allowance – supporting with any travel to the office

Active personal development community, with a £500 annual learning and development allowance

Enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave, with family friendly return to work coaching

Healthcare cashback plan for support with everyday health costs

Our office is based in Chippenham, Wiltshire - just a two-minute walk from the train station, with fast connections to Bath, Bristol, Swindon and the surrounding areas.

Flexibility and work-life balance are really important to us. We offer hybrid and remote working and aim for one team anchor collaboration day in the office per week, month, or quarter (dependent on how far afield you live).

16 Jul 2023