Strategy Analyst Glasgow, Scotland
Job description
Description
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Job Title:
Strategy Analyst
Location
UK (Kings Langley or Glasgow preferable)
Hours
Full time
Do you want to work to make Power for Good?
We are the world's largest independent renewable energy company. We are driven by a simple yet powerful vision: to create a future where everyone has access to affordable, zero carbon energy.
We know that achieving our ambitions would be impossible without our people. Because we are tackling some of the world's toughest problems, we need the very best people to help us. They are our most important asset so that's why we continually invest in them.
RES is a family with a diverse workforce, and we are dedicated to the personal professional growth of our people, no matter what stage of their career they are at. We can promise you rewarding work which makes a real impact, the chance to learn from inspiring colleagues from across a growing, global network and opportunities to grow personally and professionally.
Our competitive package offers rewards and benefits including pension schemes, flexible working, and top-down emphasis on better work-life balance. We also offer private healthcare, discounted green travel, 25 days holiday with options to buy/sell days, enhanced family leave and four volunteering days per year so you can make a difference somewhere else.
The position
This high-profile role will be critical in helping develop and shape the global strategy of RES Group, developing evidence-based arguments and translating these into a high quality and concise dialogue.
This position will work with RES’s senior leaders across the global business to provide insight, market intelligence, and understanding on the evolution of their markets.
The candidate should be able to demonstrate a sound ability to understand and breakdown problems, to identify potential solutions, to develop a clear plan to implement solutions, and to present these in a clear and concise manner to senior leaders.
Organisational Context
The Strategy and Sustainability Team reports to the CFO and resides within RES’s Group Services function. The Team provides services across all RES’s active countries, all technologies, and all activities. The successful candidate will work alongside the Head of Strategy and Sustainability within a small team and closely interact with senior management and other functions and businesses, both internal and external to RES.
Key Accountabilities
- Shape the strategic agenda and develop compelling arguments, translating these into a high-quality dialogue with the business and presentations for a Senior Executive audience
- Provide leadership with an independent, integrated perspective of the internal and external marketplace of topics or projects you are responsible for, facilitating informed challenge and discussions
- Ensure competitive strategy is at the heart of RES by implementing world-class standards for rigorous planning and sound decision-making
- Support the business planning process, supporting our business leaders in creating ways for RES to succeed in the markets we operate in over the long term
- Monitor and track global news-flow around RES’s markets and competitors, drawing insights from trends, to ensure senior executives are informed of emerging opportunities and threats and those individuals that interact with our key customers have the information they need to deepen relationships.
- Provide insights for RES’s procurement team as they build long-term relationships with suppliers to ensure RES continues to have access to the latest technologies at the lowest cost to deliver the most value to our projects
- Ensure business cases for new business streams are consistent, accurate, and decisions on investment are made on the best information via a co-ordinated set of metrics, assumptions, and outputs
- Use exceptional business and communication skills to translate vision into action
Knowledge
Skills
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE
- Strategy tools and frameworks
PREFERRED KNOWLEDGE
- Electricity market functionality and drivers in any of RES’s markets
- Effects of energy policy on business
- Environmental, Governance and Social/ Sustainability market trends and frameworks
REQUIRED SKILLS
- Strategic analysis
- Research and analysis skills
- Ability to present in writing and verbally at board-level events
- Ability to communicate complex issues to non-specialists
- Excel skills for financial modelling & forecasting
- Collaborator with the intellectual rigor and attention to detail
- Self-motivation and drive
PREFERRED SKILLS
- A second language would be useful (French, German, Turkish, Swedish)
Experience
Qualifications
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE
- Experience of undertaking strategy analysis for or within companies, ideally as part of a strategy consulting business
- Experience of developing business plans
- Demonstrated ability to take the initiative and think creatively
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex projects to tight timescales
- Ability to grasp detail and to balance this with an understanding of the bigger picture
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
- Strategy and / or consulting background, ideally within the context of energy markets
MINIMAL QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree from a well-recognized university
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Master’s Degree is preferred but not essential
At RES we celebrate difference as we know it makes our company a great place to work. Encouraging applicants with different backgrounds, ideas and points of view, we create teams who work together to solve complex problems and design practical solutions for our clients. Our multiple perspectives come from many sources including the diverse ethnicity, culture, gender, nationality, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, marital status, parental status, education, social background, and life experience of our people.
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THE WORLD'S LARGEST INDEPENDENT RENEWABLE ENERGY COMPANY
40 YEARS
OF EXPERIENCE
21 MILLION TONNES
OF CO2 OFFSET PER YEAR
2500
EMPLOYEES
