We are looking for a Head of Product and Innovation to lead the development and growth of ElectraLink’s product portfolio. This role is ideal for someone with a strong background in product innovation, lifecycle management, and commercial strategy within the energy sector. You will drive the product roadmap, working closely with stakeholders, sales teams, and industry partners to bring new solutions to market and enhance existing ones.

We can’t wait to meet you!

Key elements of the role include:

• Working in conjunction with ElectraLink’s senior stakeholders and Senior Management Team to constantly evolve the 3-5 year product roadmap to ensure the organisation evolves to continue to serve the energy market
• Working closely with the sales team, individual product owners and wider industry to drive new ideas into the product roadmaps
• Develop and deliver on a multi-year product roadmap to ensure a continuous pipeline of new and innovative products
• Develop business case proposals
• Maintain competitive information
• Identify trends and new product segments
• Collaborate with internal teams to ensure product launches and promotions are executed on time throughout the year
• Interact with customers to understand product performance
• Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success of each product
• Continuously engage with internal and external customers to understand their evolving needs and draw inspiration from their input to shape the future of our platforms
• Support prioritisation of innovation opportunities by combining customer and competitor insight to build reasoned recommendations
• Be responsible for a small team of dedicated developers as well being able to draw on a cross-functional team of SMEs to build strong business cases for a wide range of innovation projects, from early proposition exploration through to live pilots and scaling of solutions
• Assume a high level of ownership of all work developed by members of the team
• Managing innovation budget including forecasting, resource allocation and prioritisation

What you’ll need

• The candidate should come from a technical delivery or development background
• 5 years + experience of building data focused products
• Experience of leading and delivering innovation and product initiatives
• Knowledge of disruptive technologies, key trends and customer demands in the energy industry
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence audiences at all levels
• Ability to explain data designs, issues and recommendations to non-technical stakeholders
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Well organised, structured approach to work

Highly desirable skills:

• Knowledge of energy market needs
• Expertise on modern software delivery techniques including SAFE and DevOps
• Working knowledge of UK electricity and gas market systems, including systems which interface to central market functions