PortfolioTransformation Director - Energy
Posted 6 days ago by Harvey Nash Plc
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Reading, Berkshire, UK
Summary: The Portfolio Transformation Director - Energy role is an executive leadership position within a prominent Utilities sector brand, focusing on the integration of strategy and market execution. The successful candidate will leverage extensive energy market experience to influence enterprise-level decisions and drive the company's positioning within the energy sector. This role offers the potential for a permanent position in the future. Candidates must meet specific requirements related to energy market knowledge and executive-level experience.
Key Responsibilities:
- Connect strategy, market environment, and execution of deliverables.
- Influence and drive enterprise-level decisions on risk, value optimisation, and future positioning.
- Lead executive-level conversations on energy market positioning and business models.
- Translate strategy into decisions that shape portfolio direction and investment priorities.
- Balance long-term positioning with near-term delivery and performance.
- Understand technology-enabled change in the energy sector.
Key Skills:
- Deep understanding of UK/Irish energy markets.
- Experience with customer-facing and retail models.
- Credible experience at ExCo or equivalent level.
- Background in strategy, transformation, or commercial leadership.
- Strong commercial mindset for assessing risk and value creation.
- Experience at the intersection of strategy, commercial decision-making, and transformation.
- Understanding of digital, data, automation, and AI in a regulated environment.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Reading
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: Executive
Industry: Other
Our client is a well known brand within the Utilities sector and they are embarking on an exciting new phase of their evolution. Driven by changes to the utilities market operating environment alongside huge advances in Technology, our client is working to their new Target Operating Model and need an Executive level Energy market specialist to join their ExCo and help the business effectively deliver against their enterprise strategy.
NB - THIS IS AN EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP ROLE RATHER THAN DELIVERY
The Portfolio Director will be a critical hire, connecting the strategy, market environment and execution of deliverables. As such the successful candidate must have extensive energy market experience and strong commercial nous, enabling them to influence and drive enterprise level decisions on risk, value optimisation and future positioning of our client within the energy sector.
This is so much more than a standard delivery role - this is an ExCo Leadership opportunity also offering the possibility of going permanent longer term (if of interest).
We need candidates who meet all of the below requirements:
- Demonstrate a deep and practical understanding of UK/Irish energy markets.
- Specific experience of customer-facing and retail models
- Credible experience operating at ExCo or equivalent level.
- Background in strategy, transformation or commercial leadership.
- Confidence leading executive level conversations on energy market; positioning and future business models.
- Experience translating strategy into decisions that shape portfolio direction and investment priorities.
- Strong commercial mindset: ability to assess risk, value creation, downside exposure and optimisation strategies in real world conditions.
- Experience operating at the intersection of strategy, commercial decision-making and transformation.
- Credibility balancing long term positioning with near term delivery and performance.
- Understanding of technology-enabled change (digital, data, automation, AI) in an energy or adjacent regulated environment.
