Manager – Commercial - Battery Storage

Job Description

Please note: Applicants should be UK based and already have the right to work here.

To establish a robust understanding of wholesale power markets, the battery markets including their competitive landscape, relevant regulations and route to markets for all revenue stacks in markets where Masdar has and is expected to have a presence with its battery storage activities.

Responsibilities

Development of a deep understanding of batteries market (UK as starting point)

• Develop and maintain a strategic view of battery storage markets, initially with a focus on the UK, covering wholesale power market dynamics, competitive positioning, auction frameworks, regulatory developments, and evolving market design across current and target Masdar markets. This includes a clear understanding of the full battery revenue stack and its implications for investment and operating strategy.
• Assess and quantify the commercial impact of regulatory and market design changes on asset revenues, risk exposure, and route-to-market options.
• Build internal market intelligence and strengthen in-house modelling capability to support more informed decision-making and reduce reliance on external advisers over time.
• Support the definition and evolution of Masdar’s battery strategy in alignment with the company’s broader strategic objectives and growth ambitions.
• Provide strategic commercial input into bidding and investment processes, ensuring market positioning, value creation opportunities, and key risks are appropriately reflected

Market modelling and analysis

• Lead/manage the Commercial analysis team on the following topics if required
• Own high-quality commercial insight and market intelligence to support Masdar’s battery storage strategy and value creation objectives.
• Commercial analysis required for investment cases and business models, including power price formation, imbalance exposure, captured prices, curtailment, ancillary services, and in-house assessment of day-ahead and intraday spreads.
• Informed positions on network and market charges, including Transmission Network Use of System (TNUoS), and assess their implications for asset economics and portfolio strategy.
• Form a forward-looking view on short-, medium-, and long-term power market developments, grounded in a robust understanding of market fundamentals, regulatory evolution, renewable penetration, storage deployment, and system dynamics.
• Critically assess third-party revenue assumptions and market forecasts provided in the ordinary course of business and in M&A processes, ensuring that investment decisions are based on robust, challengeable commercial perspectives.

Commercial management

• Lead engagement with optimisers on short-term bidding strategy, market selection, and risk mitigation.
• Coordinate availability management with O&M and review how to shift optimisation in house via usage of price forecasting tools or virtual batteries.

Route to market and asset monetisation

• Own the analysis and structuring of available and alternative routes to market, including detailed evaluation of terms, revenue stacks, risks, rewards, and counter parties. Be familiar with capacity market portal, prequalification and registrations, Update of milestones and reports need to enter operations. Incl. logging reports which cover, construction, financial and technical milestones.
• Develop, evaluate, and challenge structured revenue models (floors, tolls, hybrids) and actively challenge optimiser revenue forecasts.
• Lead Route-to-Market tender processes for assets and portfolio-level optimisation.
• Own commercial assumptions and outputs used in investment cases, valuation models, and portfolio decision-making.

Contribution to stakeholder relations

• Build and maintain a network of relevant contacts to support daily activities and long-term objectives of the team.
• Engage with and monitor relationships with internal and external stakeholders in order to ensure adequate knowledge transfer and completion of services as per agreed parameters.

Compliance with standards and forms

• Apply consistent approaches/discipline and standardized forms in line with relevant policies, processes and procedures.

Preparation of relevant updates and reports

• Prepare relevant reports and updates as required and to the desired standard.

• Provide management information as and when required by the line manager – this includes the production and timely provision of accurate reports in line with reporting schedules.
• Responsible for daily & monthly reports. Reconcile process with national grid and optimisers.

Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in an analytical / numerical subject, preferably Engineering, Economics, Statistics or Mathematics
• Relevant Master’s degree is an asset

Preferred Experience:

• At least 4-6 years of experience of battery storage markets within the energy sector, utilities, major multinational industrial development or advisory with hands-on experience in market analysis and commercial operation.

Job-Specific Skills:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strategic and commercial thinking
• Power market fundamentals and designs, commodity market and price risks
• Detailed analytical understanding of the analysis of all commercial related inputs
• Strong communication skills
• Team player
• Enthusiastic about learning and pushing technical limits and finding new solutions / out of the box thinking

Additional Information

Job-Specific Skills:

• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills leading to a consultative approach within a corporate/multifunctional environment.
• Ability to manage cross-functional teams.
• Knowledge of the traditional energy industry.
• Project administration and legal knowledge.
• Project management skills and planning and organising.
• Attention to detail.
• Proven ability to manage and prioritize multiple ongoing projects acumen

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