Strategy Partner - OVO Solar & Heating (6 month FTC) in London

Location: Hub Based - Hybrid for all - but we’re looking for somebody who is comfortable being in the London office twice a week.

Experience: Expert

Working pattern: Full-Time

Reporting to: Ed Janvrin (CEO OVO Solar & Heating)

Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

Where you’ll work: Depending on the needs of your business area, we expect hub based people to be in the office at least once a week, and to go to OVO Connection events in-person. You’ll be assigned to the closest one of our three hub offices, Bristol, Glasgow, or London; unless your role requires field-based work. Each hub has accessible spaces to park your laptop, is designed to inspire people, help them connect and bring big ideas to life.

Everyone belongs at OVO: At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That’s why we need diverse people from all abilities, gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

Teamworking for the planet: Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you’ll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. This role sits in a fast paced and autonomous corporate venture called OVO Solar & Heating, whose remit is to re-establish and grow OVO’s renewables business. The business was launched in March 2025 on a highly innovative Franchising business model, and within 4 months outpaced OVO’s best ever monthly solar sales. By the end of 2027, the unit is expected to be one of the largest solar & heat pump installation companies in the UK.

This role in a nutshell: The role is akin to a Chief Of Staff role, and reports directly into the CEO of the business unit. It will engage very closely with all the internal unit functions - operations, sales, marketing, tech, business operations - as well as many of the main OVO Energy functions from marketing to finance. Please note, this role will be offered on an initial 6 month fixed-term contract.

Your key outcomes will be:

• Coordination and stakeholder management across the internal team as well as wider OVO to ensure the business unit is executing to plan.
• Consultant and partner to member(s) of the LT, building strong working relationships with their teams and with people across the business.
• Business Unit Strategy & Resource Allocation - 5 year plan, 2 year plan, budget - develop and iterate strategic documents and artefacts (including CLT and Board materials). This typically involves designing compelling presentations for company-wide meetings and speaking engagements.
• Collaborate cross functionally across the organisation, partnering with the planning function and finance partners to ensure strategies are aligned to Financial outlooks, and dependencies are detailed.
• Proactively prepare and present materials for Board meetings, collaborating with the central Strategy team as needed to ensure high-quality outputs.
• Analytics including performance insights, dashboarding & data.
• Market/Customer/Competitor research and benchmarking.
• Business rhythm & comms including key forums, offsites, all hands, stakeholders.
• Ad Hoc Special Projects including working directly with Revenue and Operations teams, and with Franchisees. This is likely to include Sales & Marketing initiatives, establishing new revenue lines, developing new versions of the business model, developing the Franchisor team, and corporate strategy initiatives.

Within your first 6 months you’ll achieve:

• Significant contribution to the business unit strategy, with access to OVO Energy’s wider strategy.
• Commercial and business skills and experience with exposure to all major business functions, as well as a deep understanding of Franchising as an innovative commercial model.
• Deep understanding of the solar and heat pump market in the UK.
• Leadership & Management mentorship from the CEO.
• A CV moment to be proud of and to leverage: building one of the UK’s most innovative and largest Solar & Heat Pump players.

You’ll be a successful Strategy Partner at OVO if you’re a:

• No-ego problem-solver willing to get their hands dirty, and with a track record of producing results fast.
• High-energy, self-motivated can-do person, comfortable with ambiguity and an environment with little structure.
• Confident yet warm communicator with exceptional soft skills including empathy and relationship-building, able to influence people to move at an uncomfortable pace.
• Strong financial planning, business casing, analysis, and modelling skills.
• Commercial and/or analytical experience, for example in strategy consulting roles.
• Experience in a start-up or high-intensity, resource-lean venture.

Let’s talk about what’s in it for you: We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us, and you, flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission. You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal. We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO…and there’s flex pay. We’ll give you 9% Flex Pay on top of your salary – 4% of this is auto enrolled into your pension, and the remaining 5% is yours to do what you like with. You can use this to buy from our extensive range of flexible benefits, including our green benefits which we’ve put at the heart of our offering, add to your pension or even take it as cash.

Here’s a taster of what’s on offer:

• For starters, you’ll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays).
• For your health: With benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more.
• For your wellbeing: With gym membership, travel insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, dental insurance, and more.
• For your lifestyle: With extra holiday buying, discount dining, home & tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donations.
• For your home: Get up to £400 towards any OVO Energy plan, plus great discounts on solar, smart thermostats and EV chargers.
• For your commute: Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans.

Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies? Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

For your Belonging: To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other’s experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It’s up to you.

Oh, and one last thing... We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes, yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you!

If you have any additional requirements, there’s a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible.