Intraday Power Trader (with initial focus on battery optimisation)

What You'll Do - Initially...

• Manage the day to day trading decisions for our GB battery portfolio
• Receive and agree outage requests, and amend trading schedules accordingly 
• Provide detailed understanding of trading markets, balancing mechanism and other ancillary schemes to make smart and flexible decisions on where to deploy the assets
• Have a strong understanding or relevant regulation (in particular TCLC) to ensure we remain compliant
• Work with and make recommendations to our developers around value adding areas of tooling and automation (in particular to confidently ensure that the batteries are performing out of working hours)
• Report on performance against varying benchmarks (we also like to compare battery performance against the imbalance exposure on our retail and generation books - the batteries provide a helpful hedge)
• Remain up to date on new schemes and opportunities

What You'll Do - Once time is freed from developing sufficient battery trading automation!

• Look for new areas to value add using prompt power trading
• This could include setting up battery trading in other international regions (Octopus has retail presence in France, Germany, Spain, Italy, US and New Zealand and is interested in batteries in all these markets), or setting up other trading activity (potentially including but not limited to interconnection and new algorithms)
• We would anticipate opportunities to be a combination of business driven (eg we’re signing a battery contract in X) and entrepreneurial (eg you see and can demonstrate value in trading a new product)
• Depending on the product, these are likely to start off with light touch, manual trading to prove the concept. As it evolves you will work with our developers and data scientists to build trading tools and automations

What You'll Need

• Experience in Power Trading or similar field - ideally with experience trading batteries in GB
• A passion for the challenge of decarbonisation and grid flexibility as the enabler for it
• Ability to synthesise numerical information and make informed decisions quickly
• Understanding of the fundamental drivers of the spot power market 
• Ability to use Python to pull and analyse data would be beneficial but non-essential
• Motivation to succeed in a fast paced and competitive market
• An ability to maintain continued attention to the market, even in times of low market volatility