Residential Smart Energy - Associate Consultant

LCP Delta is looking for an Associate Consultant to help clients understand how residential smart energy is evolving across Europe. The role sits within our Residential Smart Energy team and will focus on the points where energy retail, customer propositions, electrification, flexibility and digital services meet. This is a chance to develop insight that enables energy companies to make better strategic decisions, while supporting a key growth area for LCP Delta.

Our Residential Smart Energy Team

Our Residential Smart Energy team focuses on the intersection of energy retail, flexibility, customer propositions, electrification and digital services.

We help clients understand how the residential smart energy market is evolving and develop the strategies and business models needed to capture value from the transition. Working with energy retailers, OEMs and policymakers, our research and consulting spans three core areas: energy retail, flexibility and asset interoperability. We combine deep market analysis with strategic and commercial advice, helping clients understand where the market is heading, what it means for their business and where the next opportunities lie.

Key strategic questions we explore include:

· How will the role of the energy retailer evolve?

· What makes an energy app useful and valuable to customers?

· Where is value being created through residential flexibility, and who can capture it?

· Which customer propositions are leading the market, and why?

· What is driving the adoption of communication protocols and interoperability standards?

This is a great opportunity to:

• Develop, deliver and manage cutting-edge research and consulting projects on residential energy retail, retail strategy, smart propositions and customer-side flexibility
• Work at the centre of a fast-changing part of the energy transition
• Build a profile as a trusted expert on how residential energy markets are changing across Europe
• Develop relationships with energy retailers, technology providers, investors and other market participants

What will you be doing?

• Managing and delivering research projects within our Residential Smart Energy research service and consulting projects, with a particular focus on energy retail
• Leading research using qualitative and quantitative methods, including expert interviews, market analysis, desk research and data analysis
• Producing clear, engaging outputs for clients, including reports, viewpoints, databases and presentations
• Communicating insights to clients through meetings, presentations, email and webinars
• Building relationships with industry contacts and using those relationships to strengthen our market insight and business development activities
• Identifying emerging trends and helping to translate them into client-relevant insight
• Providing expert opinion on energy retail to clients and colleagues
• Collaborating closely with colleagues across the Residential Smart Energy team and related teams, including EVs, heat and flexibility

What skills, experience and qualities are we looking for?

We are looking for someone with:

• Proven experience in the energy transition, working with or for a range of organisations such as energy companies, technology manufacturers, policymakers, start-ups and industry associations.
• Solid research skills, including experience with expert interviews, desk-based research, data analysis and synthesis
• Excellent client management and relationship-building skills, with an ability to understand client needs
• Curiosity and a desire to listen and learn from industry contacts.
• Excellent analytical skills, and the ability to turn complex information into clear and commercially useful insight
• Great written and verbal communication skills, including ability to build a compelling narrative
• Team player – collaborative, sets standards, builds relationships, provides feedback
• The ability to manage a varied workload and multiple deadlines
• Commercial acumen - the ability to think commercially about the needs of our clients
• The ability to attend events and confidence to network
• Alignment with our company values

What’s in it for you?

Take a look at our and Career stories pages to see why our people love being here! As well as joining a multi-award winning, fun, collaborative, people first organisation where your personal and professional skills will be developed to make you the best you can be, we offer an attractive benefits package designed to promote your overall wellbeing so that you are able to perform to your full potential both in and out of work. Currently our core benefits package includes:

For you:

• Hybrid working (varies by role and department)
• professional study support (where applicable)
• Access to our internal Wellbeing, LGBTQ+, Multicultural and Women’s networks

For your family:

• Life assurance (6 x salary)
• Income protection
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption and shared parental leave

For your health:

• 26 days annual leave (pro-rata for part-time working) plus bank holidays (most of which can be taken flexibly!) with options to buy & sell holiday
• Private medical insurance
• Discounted gym memberships, critical illness and dental insurance through our flexible benefits
• Eye care vouchers
• Cycle to work scheme
• Digital GP services

For your wealth:

• Competitive pension scheme
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• High street discounts
• Season ticket loans

For others:

• Volunteering opportunities

For the environment:

• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme (qualifying period applies)

And much more!

We continuously strive to build an inclusive workplace where all forms of diversity are valued, including age, background, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion or sexual orientation.

LCP is committed to making our opportunities accessible to all and would welcome you getting in touch to let us know if an adjustment can be made to help with your application.

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