Senior Optimisation Analyst in Birmingham

Birmingham, we operate a Hybrid working policy and the successful candidate will be required to be in the office a minimum of 2 days per week.

Hours: Full time Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours a week

Deadline: 5th May 2026

The Senior Optimisation Analyst is an exciting new role for Bryt Energy, as we develop our Optimisation Desk capabilities.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

The role of Senior Optimisation Analyst will be responsible for assisting in the daily and monthly operation of the optimisation desk, working alongside a small team of analysts, as well as working more broadly with cross-team members to help drive profitability for our customer base. Your role will help ensure that we maximise market revenues for our customers by staying abreast of new and emerging markets as well as regulatory changes to help shape market strategy for our portfolio. You will also take a key role in developing tooling to help ensure we are generating the maximum reporting for customers with assets within our flexible portfolio. This position will also provide industry wide exposure, enabling you to act as a conduit between Bryt Energy and industry bodies, our partners and our customers, enabling you to become a figure head within the energy transition sector. The Senior Optimisation analyst role sits within the Strategy & Innovation team and will report into the Optimisation Desk Manager.

YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• Providing detailed insight to aid in the operation of Bryt Energy’s Optimisation Desk, including strategic & operational daily and monthly optimisation processes across a range of technologies, asset types and markets.
• Design and maintain internal processes and controls that dictate Optimisation Desk operations and ensure they are fit for purpose.
• Aid in the entry process to new ancillary market services.
• Create and maintain end of month customer reports to document financial and operational performance of customer assets.
• Design and maintain market databases to provide weekly market insight notes and a monthly strategy briefing to the Optimisation Desk Manager.
• Curate industry datasets (e.g. ECR, DNO/ESO publications) and present actionable insights to sales and commercial teams to support tender responses and product positioning.
• Providing excellent customer service for customers under contract; respond to queries, run performance reviews, and elevate commercial queries.
• Coordinate with partners and asset optimisers to ensure contractual availability and successful dispatch; manage partner SLAs and run monthly performance reconciliations.
• Attend meetings with customers and partners to discuss performance of their asset and any adjustments to their strategy.
• Keep abreast of new services and regulatory changes that will affect our optimisation portfolio, help respond to consultations on these changes and keep stakeholders updated of those changes.
• Provide market updates for clients, both prospective and under contract, covering ancillary service, non-commodity.
• Work with Bryt Energy’s marketing team to create insightful content to be published via Social Media channels.
• Represent Bryt Energy as a key contact point with industry bodies.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE:

What you’ll bring to the team:

• Excellent analytical skills to provide meaningful insight and inform actions/decisions with an ability to interrogate and manipulate large and complex sets of data.
• Ability to understand complex problems and datasets and be able to provide succinct solutions.
• The drive and skills to develop and improve operational processes and controls.
• Ability to work cohesively across teams on a variety of projects.
• Proven ability to maintain and develop established databases, with the insight to recommend and implement changes.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to learn new tasks and information quickly and dynamically.
• Self-reliance to carry out tasks independently and present results to the Energy Transition team.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to describe complex issues clearly and succinctly to individuals, groups and wider teams.
• Desire for self-improvement and growth.

Education and training:

• Qualified to degree level or have experience in an energy/trading environment.
• Highly numerate with commercial acumen.
• Excellent statistical, modelling and analysis skills to support robust modelling and strategy building; able to apply sound theoretical knowledge to practical problems.
• A knowledge of the current UK ancillary service market and its regulations is highly desirable.
• Over two years’ experience within the UK’s Energy sector.

Abilities and Skills:

• Advanced Excel skills are essential.
• Ability to show initiative with the capacity to proactively plan and prioritise own workload.
• Proactive and energetic approach, with a positive attitude.
• Be an independent thinker with the ability to identify and rectify problems.
• Flexible and adaptable to respond to changing priorities.
• Quantitative modelling and forecasting.
• Knowledge and appreciation of technical operational parameters of flexible resources including energy storage, DSR and EVs.
• Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external stakeholders.

THINK YOU’VE GOT WHAT IT TAKES?