Strategy Partner - 12 month FTC

Team: OVO Solar & Heating

Location: Hybrid - you need to be comfortable being in our London office twice a week.

Experience: Expert

Role Type: Full-Time, 12 month fixed-term contract

Reporting to: CEO OVO Solar & Heating

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

This role in 3 words: Strategic. Dynamic. Cross-Functional

Top 3 qualities for this role:

• Action-orientated.
• Influential communicator.
• Strategic & analytical.

Where you'll work: At OVO, we understand that a one size fits all approach doesn't work for everyone. That's why we created the OVO Way of Flexibility. All our roles are hub based (Bristol, Glasgow or London), providing a dedicated space for collaboration, connection and teamwork. You'll also have the flexibility to work from home.

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 2026, the unit is expected to be one of the largest solar & heat pump installation companies in the UK with ambitions to be both the biggest, and the best.

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.

What you'd expect to gain from the role:

• Significant contribution to the business unit strategy, with access to OVO Energy's wider strategy.
• Real ownership across every function in the business. You'll have launched things, not watched them being launched.
• Commercial and business skills and experience with exposure to all major business functions, as well as a deep understanding of the Franchising 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.

What you'll be expected to do:

• Running the business: Coordination: Work with stakeholders across the internal team and wider OVO to ensure we are executing to plan. Build strong relationships.
• Business Unit Strategy: 5 year plan, 2 year plan, budget - develop and iterate strategic documents and artefacts (including CLT and Board materials).
• Key reporting: Proactively prepare and present materials for board meetings & internal forums, with a focus on effective and compelling communication.
• Analytics: Be the master of our data and how we can leverage insights to improve our business, including customer analytics and creating dashboards.
• Own the business rhythm and coordination that comes with it: key forums, all-hands, offsites; make sure what we said we'd do is actually happening.
• Building new things: Take concepts from idea to operation, e.g. subscription products, new vertices like commercial works, and whatever we haven't thought of yet.
• Iterate the business model, including how the franchise proposition itself evolves as we become a more established business.
• Build new propositions with OVO Energy, pairing installations with tariffs to make the product more attractive to customers.
• Run initiatives independently, with the Revenue and Operations teams, and directly with franchisees.
• Ask and answer questions like should we... play in the funded space?; sell plug-in-solar panels?; sell insurance products?; raise our fees?; enter the Irish market? In each case, if yes - then move into delivering it.

Your Attitude and Traits:

• No-ego problem-solver willing to get their hands dirty, and with a track record of producing results fast.
• A sharp strategic and analytical thinker - able to take a vague, messy problem and come back with a structured answer.
• 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.

Your Skills and Experience:

• Strong financial planning, business casing, analysis, and modelling skills.
• Commercial and/or analytical experience.