About the Role
This leadership role will bring coherence and focus to TCE’s role in offshore energy, ensuring TCE’s systems leadership in shaping offshore energy for Net Zero and energy security is well defined, aligned, and supported by customers and stakeholders. The role supports TCE relationships with key energy sector stakeholders and interfaces with wider energy systems stakeholders, feeding into policy teams on UK and international energy policy.
Responsibilities
- Ensure whole-systems coherence across TCE’s energy sectors, by ensuring Routemap methodologies deliver clear outcomes into leasing strategies and programmes.
- Support activities that lead to effective integration between offshore leasing by TCE and strategic energy network design by NESO (particularly for offshore wind and CCS).
- Support TCE’s role in de-risking offshore and coastal energy networks, strengthening the attractiveness of our offshore energy leasing programmes and projects.
- Contribute to TCE’s role in offshore/ coastal energy system security and resilience, ensuring seabed management supports Government’s policy objectives.
- Support management of TCE’s relationships with NESO, NGET and Ofgem, ensuring these are managed as key strategic accounts.
- Be the stakeholder lead for networks and energy systems for Mission control, DESNZ and key others.
- Contribute thought leadership on Energy policy, working with the Marine & Energy Policy Senior Manager to develop clear positions and actions for TCE.
Requirements
- Strong systems thinking capabilities, demonstrated in practical use in complex stakeholder environments.
- Direct knowledge of UK energy systems in a net zero context, spanning technology, end-users/ consumers, supply chains, markets, policy and regulation.
- Demonstrated experience in policy shaping, stakeholder engagement, and the ability to define and hold enterprise positions under scrutiny and challenge.
- Strong communication and influencing skills, both written and verbal, enabling impactful engagement.
- Familiarity with sustainability principles and their integration into policies.
Skills
- Systems thinking
- UK energy systems knowledge (net zero context)
- Policy shaping
- Stakeholder engagement
- Communication skills
- Influencing skills
- Sustainability principles
Experience Level
- Senior Manager
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Pension
- Performance related bonus
- Flexible working
- Market leading family policies
- Shopping discounts
- Private healthcare
- Life cover
- Critical illness cover
- 28 days holiday
- Option to buy more holiday
Equal Opportunity
- We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme.
- We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.
- If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us directly.
