Senior Energy Markets Specialist (BESS)

Location: London, United Kingdom; hybrid workplace

Company

hirify.global Generation sources, invests in, and manages utility-scale renewable energy assets, with a global portfolio exceeding £8 billion.

What you will do

• Lead energy-market coverage for a key fund, including route-to-market performance, revenue strategy, hedging, market risk, and commercial counterparties.
• Build the commercial strategy for battery energy storage systems across priority markets, covering revenue underwriting, optimiser selection, route-to-market, and risk management.
• Provide senior market input to investment decisions by assessing power prices, capture prices, ancillary services, balancing, negative pricing, grid constraints, and commercial structures.
• Develop standards and guidance for BESS and collocated assets, incorporating operational lessons into future investment assumptions.
• Lead complex commercial processes such as optimiser, route-to-market, and strategic PPA tenders, while managing external providers and counterparties.
• Communicate market risks and recommendations to investment committees, asset boards, investors, and cross-functional fund, investment, technical, and asset-management teams.

Requirements

• Significant experience in European power markets, renewable energy commercialisation, trading, optimisation, or energy-market advisory.
• Strong practical experience with BESS commercial strategy, including revenue modelling, route-to-market arrangements, ancillary services, dispatch, and optimiser performance.
• Experience working for or advising a renewable IPP, fund manager, utility, trading house, optimiser, or energy-market consultancy.
• Strong understanding of PPAs, merchant exposure, hedging, balancing, capture prices, negative pricing, ancillary services, and grid constraints.
• High financial and numerical acumen, including the ability to build, review, and challenge complex revenue models and investment assumptions.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to present commercial recommendations to senior decision-makers and investors.

Culture & Benefits

• Autonomous environment where people learn, decide, and build quickly.
• Opportunity to work on projects supporting the renewable energy transition and sustainable investment.
• Flexible salary approach discussed during the recruitment process according to experience.
• Inclusive workplace with equal-opportunity principles and support for interview accommodations.
• Recognition as a leading UK workplace, including rankings among the top companies for workplace culture and senior leadership.