Graduate Commercial Specialist London

We’re looking for a smart, passionate and driven Graduate Commercial Specialist, for a fast moving and varied role within a new team. You’ll have the opportunity to gain a huge amount of knowledge and exposure across the electric vehicle, energy & tech landscapes, whilst developing a wide range of commercial skills.

You’d be a great match for us if you consider yourself a generalist, looking to get stuck into different activities and parts of the business and learn quickly on the job.  You’re proactive and would be excited to help grow our electrification business, developing creative solutions to support us as we scale and refine our emerging products and services such as EV charging, solar deployment, energy flexibility and more.

What you'll do

• Be at the heart of our emerging Electrification team - we work across a variety of Octopus products to deliver new customer solutions such as electric vehicle charging, rooftop solar, renewable supply, bespoke energy tariffs, battery storage, renewable heat – the list goes on
• Embrace an entrepreneurial culture: initiate ideas, build processes, regularly talk to businesses and customers, and generally be excited by growing a new business function
• Speak directly to a range of businesses about their electrification potential
• Manage and improve our electrification operations, and find new efficient ways to deliver exceptional experiences
• Be willing to turn your hand to a range of functions: operations, contracts, business development, marketing, technical development, and gain a big picture understanding of the future of energy 

What you'll need

• 0 – 2 years’ experience. We don’t mind what you’ve been up to beforehand!
• If you’re a new graduate, any demonstrable work experience, such as a placement year or several months’ experience in an office-based role is a bonus
• An interest in sustainability and energy
• The ability and willingness to learn fast and apply that learning immediately for customers
• An independent mindset, able to solve problems and create solutions on the fly
• Ability to review a pipeline of opportunities and identify improvements and products that can increase conversion or create cost efficiencies 
• Confidence to speak on the phone and build relationships
• Excellent numerical and writing skills
• Able to balance attention to detail with larger-scale context
• A positive mentality that sees opportunity in the new challenges we're facing together as we build the future of energy! 

Benefits

• Our company culture - we won best company to work for in 2019
• Flexible working environment - genuine work life balance here, we are in the top 5 companies in the UK, we treat you as a human, and do our best to make work and life merge smoothly together 
• Relaxation - we don’t count your holidays here, we work hard, and so we know you need to play hard as well (within reason of course) 
• Equity Options Scheme - you own your own part of the business, share options in the whole Octopus Energy Group so we all work together towards success 
• Office culture - have a certain tech requirement? We’ll do our best to get it. Our offices are also stocked with fruit, breakfast, great coffee and soft drinks. Weekly on a Friday we all get together (this happens virtually too) for company updates and drinks - we call it Family Dinner 
• Social Events - we sponsor YeoValley’s summer festival, valleyfest, every year for our big offsite Summer party (we take our kids too) and we also aim to have 3 parties a year 
• Your development is important - we support and help with development including internal and external courses, learning, study support etc, all bespoke to you 
• SmartPension Scheme - employer 5% employee 3% and you can contribute more 
• Cycle to Work Scheme - to help lower your carbon footprint whilst good for your healthWe also have access to the EV Salary Sacrifice Scheme - if you want to get an EV!