Growth Office Manager - 12 Month FTC

At E.ON UK, we're building the future of energy. Our Growth Studio is our internal venture studio, created to explore bold ideas, develop innovative products and services, and help shape a more sustainable future for our customers. We're looking for a highly organised, commercially minded and proactive Growth Office Manager to become the operational and financial backbone of the Growth Studio. This is a pivotal role where you'll enable our teams to move quickly, keep leadership focused on strategic priorities, and ensure the studio operates efficiently as we build and scale new ventures. If you thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy bringing structure to ambiguity and love making things happen behind the scenes, we'd love to hear from you.

Here's a taste of what you'll be doing:

• Financial Planning & Budget Management: Lead the financial operations of the Growth Studio by managing budget planning, forecasting and spend tracking. You'll maintain real-time visibility of budgets, monitor variances and provide insight to support informed decision-making, ensuring the studio operates with strong financial discipline.
• Payments & Supplier Management: Manage the end-to-end payment process for external suppliers, agencies and contractors. You'll raise purchase orders, process invoices, support vendor onboarding and work closely with Finance and Procurement to ensure payments are accurate and made on time.
• Studio Operations: Take ownership of the operational health of the Growth Studio by maintaining project management tools, documentation, reporting and governance processes. You'll ensure key activities, milestones, risks and dependencies are visible and effectively managed.
• Leadership Support: Partner closely with the Growth Director, anticipating operational needs, coordinating priorities, managing incoming requests and removing blockers so leadership can focus on strategic priorities and scaling new ventures.
• Operational Excellence: Continuously improve operational processes, communication channels and collaboration tools, including AI-enabled ways of working, to remove friction, improve efficiency and support the Growth Studio as it grows.

Are we the perfect match? We're looking for someone who enjoys being at the centre of a busy, ambitious team and takes pride in making everything run smoothly.

You'll have:

• Experience in operations, project management, business management, executive support or a similar role.
• Strong financial and commercial awareness, with experience managing budgets, forecasts, purchase orders and invoice processing.
• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining exceptional attention to detail.
• Outstanding communication skills and confidence building relationships with stakeholders at all levels, including senior leaders.
• A proactive approach, anticipating challenges before they arise and taking ownership to resolve them.
• Experience working in fast-paced environments where priorities evolve quickly and adaptability is essential.
• High levels of emotional intelligence, professionalism and discretion when handling confidential information.

Nice to have:

• Experience supporting senior leaders within an innovation team, venture studio, start-up, scale-up or large corporate environment.
• Experience using financial systems such as SAP, ERP or invoice management platforms.
• Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills, with experience building forecasts, tracking budgets and analysing spend.
• Experience managing suppliers, purchase orders, invoices and event budgets.
• Experience with collaboration and project management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Asana, Monday.com, Notion or Miro.
• An interest in innovation, venture building, product growth or emerging technologies.

Role may close earlier due to high applications. Fixed term contract length - 12 months. Competitive salary. Location - London - E.ON Next, 47-53 Charterhouse Street, Farringdon, London, EC1M 6PB - with travel to our other sites when required.

Benefits:

• Excellent parental leave allowance.
• Award-Winning Workplace - We’re proud to be named a Sunday Times Best Place to Work 2025 and the Best Place to Work for 16-34-year-olds.
• Outstanding Benefits - Enjoy 26 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, a generous pension, life cover, bonus opportunities and access to 20 flexible benefits with tax/NI savings.
• Flexible & Family-Friendly - Our industry-leading hybrid and family-friendly policies earned us double recognition at the Personnel Today Awards 2024. We’re open to discussing how flexibility can work for you.
• Inclusive & Diverse - We’re the only energy company in the Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers. We’re also proud winners of Best Employer for Women and Human Company of the Year-recognising our inclusive, people‑first culture.
• Support at Every Stage of Life - We’re Fertility Friendly and Menopause Friendly accredited, with inclusive support for everyone.
• Accessible & Supportive - Do you consider yourself as having a disability? As a Disability Confident Employer, we guarantee interviews for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role and will make any adjustments needed during the process.
• Invested in Your Growth - From inclusive talent networks to top-tier development programmes, we’ll support your growth every step of the way for all successful candidates.

Due to the nature of this role your employment will be subject to a basic DBS (Disclosure Barring Service) check being carried out by ourselves via a 3rd party service provider.

Any questions on the role - please reach out to Eonnext.recruitment@eonnext.com.

At E.ON Next, our customers are our number 1 priority! All Nexties - including our executive team - regularly directly support customers so we stay close to their needs and make better decisions that deliver the best experience. E.ON Next is all about creating a sustainable future, now. We're moving our energy in the right direction, one little big step at a time. We’re also here to make this whole energy thing way easier for our customers. Like, really easy. That means providing exceptional service and using state-of-the-art tech to do it. Join us in our mission to bring feel-good energy to everyone...