Programme Manager - Platform Operations

almost 3 years ago
Full time role
London, England, GB... more
London, England, GB... more

Company

OVO Energy is an independent energy technology company and supplier. The company was launched in 2009. OVO Energy is set ...

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Job Description

Location: London, Bristol, Edinburgh, Lisbon

The OVO Group’s purpose is to drive progress towards net zero carbon living. To reach Plan Zero, we need everyone to come together - not just as customers buying energy, but as members with a common goal. As part of this ambitious plan, our goal is to become the ‘Leading Employer in the UK’ by 2030. If you think you could be the talent we’re looking for, then come and join the adventure!

 

Where in the world of OVO will I be working? 

Part of OVO Group, Kaluza is the leading intelligent energy platform powering the future of energy. From revolutionising billing to smart electric vehicle charging, Kaluza’s real-time cloud platform empowers some of the biggest energy suppliers to optimise their operations and invest in innovating for tomorrow’s customers. Driving decarbonisation, Kaluza intelligently manages the charging of smart home technologies, reducing customers’ energy bills and laying the foundations for a more flexible, cheaper and greener energy system. www.kaluza.com

What will I be doing?

Our Programme Managers at Kaluza are responsible for the delivery of projects and programmes that span multiple product and engineering teams. The programme team help ensure that Kaluza meets strategic objectives by providing structure, momentum and alignment to the product teams involved.

Key responsibilities include:

  • End to end programme management of projects and programmes within the portfolio
  • Programme design: implementation and optimisation of the governance frameworks by which the change is delivered
  • Working with the team to ensure all necessary roles and responsibilities are defined and understood (e.g. RACI model)
  • Owning the delivery plan and elicits activities required from contributing teams
  • Ensuring all stakeholders are aware of progress, risks, blockers and keeps everyone focused on the objective(s)
  • Agreeing activity across the plan is owned and there is a documented ‘definition of done’
  • Providing regular progress updates to the business
  • Identifying and removes blockers through facilitation to enable earliest delivery of value
  • Managing dependencies across the platform with other programme managers and colleagues
  • Programme budget management

 

Is this the job for me? 

Life at Kaluza is pretty fast-paced so you’ll be happy working in a dynamic high growth business. To be set up for success in this role you will be someone who is proactive, excellent at team mobilization and quick at understanding the complex and making sense of it. 

Ideally you will:

  • Be highly capable of delivering strategic change initiatives across a number of teams, whether as a project, product, or programme manager
  • Have worked as or closely with business analysts; comfortable with requirements gathering and process analysis
  • Comfortable working at team level at a task detail level and at executive level by providing summaries and key information
  • Track record delivering a range of initiatives across product development, compliance, technical and  customer experience changes
  • Demonstrable ability to respond to change and maintain a highly agile mindset insofar as earliest possible delivery of value

 

From us you’ll get

  • An annual discretionary bonus
  • 4% of your salary to spend on flexible lifestyle benefits
  • 5% matched employer contribution to your pension
  • 25 days holiday + 1 for your birthday
  • And many more... 

(*) Please note that certain benefits kick-in once you have passed probation which can be up to 6 months after your start date.

 

We want the best people 

At OVO, we empower our people to have choice around where and when they work - flexible working arrangements can be discussed for all of our roles. Please speak to the Talent Acquisition team for more info.

We’re keen to meet people with varied backgrounds - our view is the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We want to build teams which represent a variety of experiences, perspectives and skills, and we recognise talent on the basis of merit and potential.

We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. If you're excited about joining us and think you have much of what we're looking for, even if you're not 100% sure… we'd love to hear from you.

Learn more about working in the OVO family of companies on our careers page and Glassdoor. We’re also delighted to have received a Top Employers certificate in 2018, 2019 and 2020!

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