Project Manager (Metering)

Our purpose 🌍

Inspiring and empowering our people to create a positive difference for themselves, our clients and the planet

Sustainable Energy First is an energy and sustainability consultancy, founded to solve energy management problems in very large, complex commercial estates.

This remains the core of our business driven by a commitment to sustainability and the goal of reducing our clients’ carbon footprint.

🐿️ The Role in a nutshell

As a Project Manager (Metering) at Sustainable Energy First, you will be responsible for managing metering and data services for customers' portfolios. This role involves reviewing, negotiating, and finalizing metering contracts with customers and service providers, ensuring that terms are clear, fair, and align with organisational goals and regulatory standards. You will maintain a detailed contract database to ensure all contractual obligations are met and records are up to date. Additionally, you will oversee the planning, coordination, and execution of metering projects, as well as manage contract renewals, terminations, and amendments as required.

In this role, you will build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including clients, industry partners, and internal teams. Effective communication is crucial, as you will act as the key liaison between all parties, ensuring seamless collaboration and timely resolution of queries. You will also lead regular performance review meetings with clients and external partners, facilitating collaborative problem-solving.

➡️ Stakeholder Management:

• Proven ability to build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including clients, industry partners, and internal teams.
• Experience in effectively managing a high volume of stakeholder and customer queries, ensuring timely resolution and clear communication.

➡️ Internal & External Communications:

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with customers, external partners, and internal teams.
• Ability to act as the key liaison between all parties, ensuring seamless communication and collaboration.
• Experience in leading regular performance review meetings with clients and external partners, facilitating collaborative problem-solving.

➡️ Report Delivery:

• Demonstrated ability to ensure timely delivery of high-quality metering reports to customers.
• Proficiency in delivering accurate reporting with added value and insight.

➡️ Project Coordination:

• Ability to align contract terms with project execution, ensuring smooth transitions and successful project outcomes.
• Experience in coordinating end-to-end delivery of metering projects.
• Skilled at managing complex project lifecycles, resolving operational challenges, and driving continuous improvement in metering processes, data accuracy, and customer outcomes.
• Proven ability to manage complex metering projects from inception to completion.

Requirements

• Experience in a similar role
• Good organisational skills, ensuring efficiency and accuracy.
• Good excel skills

• High level of accuracy in contract documentation and compliance monitoring.

• Ability to align contract terms with project execution and ensuring smooth transitions.
• Coordinate end-to-end delivery of metering projects.

• Ability to communicate effectively with clients, industry partners, and internal teams.
• Good stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills.

• A good knowledge and understanding of industry regulation and changes.
• Familiarity with smart metering operations, data flows, and market roles.

Benefits

💷 Salary: £25,000-£30,000 per annum

🌴 Holidays: 25 days + bank holidays + 🥳 your birthday off, increasing to 30 days on length of service

🏠 Hybrid working - you must be able to commute to our Fulwood office 2 days p/week

⌛Flexible working - including the ability to bank up to to 5 extra days off per year

⛹🏽 Gym contribution

💰 Long service awards

🩺 Private Medical Insurance

🐣 Enhanced paternity/non-pregnant colleague and maternity/pregnant colleague leave

🏥 Simply Health scheme

🧠 Challenging work and development opportunities

Inclusion and Belonging

We believe that diversity is more than a commitment, it’s at the heart 🤎 of who we are. We aim to create an environment where everyone feels respected, valued, and empowered to bring their whole selves to work.

We celebrate different perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences because we know they make us stronger, bolder and more imaginative, which link to our core values. By fostering a culture of belonging, we aim to provide a workplace where every voice is heard, and every individual can thrive.

Our culture has been set up to bring the best out of our people. If we sound like the kind of business where you’re ready to take the next step, then we look forward to hearing from you!