Senior-Lead Commercial Project Manager – Green Hydrogen – HYRO

Octopus Energy is seeking a Senior-Lead Commercial Project Manager for Green Hydrogen in London. The role involves managing commercial aspects of projects, stakeholder engagement, and interfacing with government bodies. Candidates should have strong project management skills, experience in contract negotiation, and familiarity with the hydrogen market. Octopus values an inclusive environment and encourages diverse applicants to apply, ensuring support for unique needs throughout the hiring process.
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In your projects you will be responsible for all the Octopus workstreams in the JV, which include but are not limited to:
• All commercial aspects of projects – power supply agreements, hydrogen offtake agreements, low-carbon hydrogen agreements (administered by LCCC) – and the overall project management of the delivery, in coordination with your RES co-lead’s workstreams
• Understanding the technical development aspects and procurement activities of the project and how they interact with and impact on commercial workscopes, timelines and successful project delivery
• Management of all relevant stakeholders across the JV and commercial workscopes
• Interfacing with government bodies as part of subsidy and policy discussions as well as supporting the Development Director in negotiations
• In cooperation with the RES co-lead, develop project budgets – DEVEX and CAPEX – and be responsible for delivering against budget
• Understanding of UK Hydrogen policy environment, including hydrogen derivative policies
• Actively support offtaker and project origination work as well as market and competitor analyses. What you bring to us:
• An ability to clearly communicate, to work effectively in a team and a knack for communicating complex matters in lucid, succinct form
• Excellent project management skills with a good understanding of the steps and governance involved in developing and delivering energy projects. An understanding of power markets is not crucial but an understanding of “molecules” sector, i.e., natural gas, hydrogen and hydrogen derivatives is highly desired
• Demonstrated experience in negotiating offtake contracts, contract structuring, price structuring and origination
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills with a focus on our internal and external customers
• Specific experience in hydrogen is desirable but not essential. Knowledge of the hydrogen market and familiarity with different end-use cases is desirable
• An entrepreneurial, roll-up-sleeves, can-do, delivery focused attitude, wrapped in a relaxed and approachable manner
• Mentoring/coaching of less experience team members, continuous improvement and lessons learned focus.Why you'll love it here
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• Octopus Energy is a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! We won best company to work for in 2022, our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people. We’ve also been placed in the top 10 companies for senior leadership