About the Role
LCP Delta is seeking an experienced consultant to analyze the evolving landscape of residential flexibility across Europe and assist clients in developing strategies for its commercialization. This role is central to our growth in this dynamic sector, focusing on delivering high-quality research and consulting projects.
Responsibilities
- Manage and deliver research projects within the Residential Smart Energy service and residential flexibility consulting projects.
- Lead research using qualitative and quantitative methods, including expert interviews, market analysis, desk research, and data analysis.
- Produce clear, engaging, and meaningful outputs for clients, including reports, databases, viewpoints, and presentations.
- Communicate insights to clients virtually and in-person through meetings, presentations, email, and webinars.
- Manage projects, budgets, and client relationships.
- Build relationships with industry contacts to strengthen marketing insight and business development activities.
- Identify emerging trends and translate them into client-relevant insights.
- Provide expert opinion on flexibility to clients and colleagues.
- Support less-experienced analysts in developing their expertise and skills.
- Collaborate closely with colleagues across the Residential Smart Energy team and other teams to deliver and develop successful projects.
- Support business development activities such as lead generation and proposal development where required.
- Develop, deliver, and manage cutting-edge research and projects on residential flexibility.
- Work at the forefront of a high growth sector within the energy transition.
- Build a profile as a trusted expert in European residential flexibility.
- Build relationships with a range of industry stakeholders and support the development of our growth in this area.
Requirements
- Proven experience working in flexibility, ideally including experience in residential flexibility.
- Solid understanding of flexibility value streams across Europe, with a specific focus on the accessibility and monetization of residential assets.
- Ability to articulate how flexibility value streams differ across countries and how these differences affect business models and customer propositions to both expert and non-expert audiences.
- Solid understanding of the business models and propositions of key stakeholders monetizing residential flexibility across the value chain, from customer acquisition through to trading.
- Firm understanding of the market conditions that have enabled these business models to emerge.
- Understanding of the challenges faced by a range of stakeholders (e.g., OEMs, independent aggregators, suppliers) in developing residential flexibility propositions.
- Understanding of how these stakeholders can support one another, but may also create barriers for each other.
- Solid research skills, including experience with expert interviews, desk-based research, data analysis, and synthesis.
- Experience managing research or consulting projects, including managing project teams and deadlines.
- Excellent client management and relationship-building skills, with an ability to understand client needs.
- Curiosity and a desire to listen and learn from industry contacts.
- Excellent analytical skills, and the ability to turn complex information into clear and commercially useful insight.
- Great written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to build a compelling narrative.
- Team player – collaborative, sets standards, builds relationships, provides feedback.
- Ability to manage a varied workload and multiple deadlines.
- Commercial acumen - the ability to think commercially about the needs of our clients.
- Ability to attend events.
Skills
- Flexibility
- Residential flexibility
- Flexibility value streams
- Monetisation of residential assets
- Business models
- Customer propositions
- Qualitative research
- Quantitative research
- Expert interviews
- Market analysis
- Desk research
- Data analysis
- Project management
- Client management
- Relationship building
- Analytical skills
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Commercial acumen
Location
- Europe
Work Type
- Hybrid working
Experience Level
- Experienced consultant
Benefits
- Hybrid working (varies by role and department)
- Professional study support (where applicable)
- Access to our internal Wellbeing, LGBTQ+, Multicultural and Women’s networks
- Life assurance (6 x salary)
- Income protection
- Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption and shared parental leave
- 26 days annual leave (pro-rata for part-time working) plus bank holidays (most of which can be taken flexibly!) with options to buy & sell holiday
- Private medical insurance
- Discounted gym memberships, critical illness and dental insurance through our flexible benefits
- Eye care vouchers
- Cycle to work scheme
- Digital GP services
- Competitive pension scheme
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- High street discounts
- Season ticket loans
- Volunteering opportunities
- Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme (qualifying period applies)
About the Company
- LCP Delta is looking for an experienced consultant to help clients understand how residential flexibility is developing across Europe and support them to develop strategies to commercialise it.
- This is a fantastic opportunity to support our growth in this fast-developing area, with the role focused on delivering excellent research and consulting projects in residential flexibility.
- Our Residential Smart Energy Team focuses on the intersection of energy retail, flexibility, customer propositions, electrification and digital services.
- We support our clients understand the outlook for residential flexibility, and how they can develop strategies and business models to capture value from it.
- Our work in residential flexibility focuses on how propositions are emerging across Europe, who is developing them, how their business models stack up, end-customer propositions and attitudes towards residential flexibility.
- A key focus is understanding where and how value is captured and shared across the value chain.
- We work collaboratively with other teams, for example on the opportunities V2G presents.
- Our work combines market analysis with advice to help clients make clear commercial decisions.
- Joining a multi-award winning, fun, collaborative, people first organisation where your personal and professional skills will be developed to make you the best you can be.
Equal Opportunity
- We continuously strive to build an inclusive workplace where all forms of diversity are valued, including age, background, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion or sexual orientation.
- LCP is committed to making our opportunities accessible to all and would welcome you getting in touch to let us know if an adjustment can be made to help with your application. This may be extra time for assessments, pre-interview site visits, interview structure or questions, or asking us about building accessibility. Whatever it may be, please get in touch via our dedicated email address - to discuss how we can support you with your application.
