DER Business Analyst

80865 - DER Business Analyst

This DER Business Analyst will report to the Distributed Energy Resources Development Manager and will work within Connections and can be based either our London, Crawley or Maidstone offices. You will be on a 12 - month fixed term contract.

You will attract a salary of £41,109 and a bonus of 3%. This role can also offer blended working after probationary period (6 months) - 3 days in the office and 2 remote

Close Date: 03/07/2025.

We also provide the following additional benefits

• 22 Days Annual Leave plus bank holidays.
• Reservist Leave – Additional 18 days full pay and 22 unpaid
• Personal Pension Plan – Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%)
• Tenancy Loan Deposit Scheme, Season Ticket Loan
• Tax efficient benefits: Cycle to Work, Home & Tech, and Green Car Leasing Schemes
• Occupational Health support
• Switched On – scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers' products
• Discounted gym membership
• Employee Assistance Programme

Context:

Distribution Network Operators (DNOs) are at the heart of the energy transition and UK Power Networks has committed to playing an important role in supporting Net Zero. Significant changes are being made to the connections journey for customers through Connections Reform and the Governments Clean Power 2030 mission sets out several important challenges.

The volume of applications for the connection of generation to our network has increased over the last few years. UK Power Networks are required to notify NESO (National Energy System Operator) of any connection applications it receives that may have an impact on the transmission system. In turn NESO make a Connection Offer to UK Power Networks. This relationship is managed by DSO. The downstream relationship of making subsequent Connection Offers is managed by Connections and whereas the relationship managed by DSO is on 1-2-1 basis the downstream relationship is on a one-to-many basis. In some instances one Connection Offer from NESO may translate into 30 Connection Offers to UK Power Networks customers.

To make Connection Offers to customers, it is necessary to extract information from the NESO Offer. This information often needs manipulating and costs need to be apportioned among customers driving the works.

NESO have embarked upon a Connections Reform journey and many Connection Offers from NESO will be revisited and revised requiring UK Power Networks to review its Connection Offers to customers.

Job Purpose:

Working for the Distributed Energy Resources Development Manager you will support and deliver the development of services to Distributed Energy Resources customers.

You will work with all areas of the business to assist in the delivery of Connections Reform, so delivering exceptional service to our customers is vital.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Organise, manage and deliver DER customer workshops/forums/scrutiny panels
• Collate and review feedback from workshops/forums and any other relevant sources to help develop best in class services.
• Communicate with customers and internal stakeholders
• Review and act on any relevant industry information
• Stakeholder engagement
• Compile information for EMT/SMT updates
• Analyse and produce management information.
• Ensure external website is up to date with relevant information.
• Produce regular reports and management information on Connections Reform activities
• Maintain programme of internal comms/awareness

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications and Experience:

• Knowledge of company and industry developments relevant to the role
• Knowledge of and an interest in the energy transition
• Communication skills at all levels with the ability to develop relationships with all key stakeholders
• High degree of creativity and innovation
• Ability to work within a delivery-focused role with deadlines
• Excellent networking skills – ability to find out and apply best practice ideas from other business units and organisations

Nature and Scope:

The DER Team is part of the Service Delivery Team which in turn is part of the Connections Directorate. The DER team works with the Major Connections Team and provides support in the delivery of Connection Offers to Customers. As we transition to Connections Reform in Q2 2025 there will be the need to review circa NESO contracts (total value of contracts £100's millions) with a greater number of Connections Offers to customers.

The DER team (including 2 new PM roles) comprises a DER Manager, 3 Project Managers and 2 Business analysts (inc. this one)

Health & Safety Responsibilities

Managers and supervisors carry both legal and company responsibilities for ensuring the health and safety of their employees, those under their control and those who might be affected by the work undertaken, i.e. public, visitors and employees of other organisations. This includes briefing individuals working for them and ensuring there is the necessary understanding, competence and application of requirements to work safely and without harming the environment.

Employees will ensure they understand the health and safety risks involved in their work activities and their responsibility to apply the controls needed to manage those risks to acceptable levels. Similarly where work activities can have an adverse impact upon the environment, and where there are legal requirements, employees will understand those impacts and the controls they must ensure are applied.

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If you have any queries in connection to this vacancy or your application, please contact us at careers@ukpowernetworks.co.uk quoting the vacancy reference number and a member of the team will get in touch with you as soon as possible.