About this role
Job Title: Head of Strategic Market Interventions
Location: Hybrid - Aberdeen or Edinburgh
Reporting to: Supply Chain Strategy and Partnerships
Number of Roles Available: 1
Company Overview:
Join Great British Energy and be part of powering the UK’s Clean Energy Future.
At GBE, we’re not just building an energy company – we’re shaping the future of the UK’s energy landscape.
Our mission is clear:
- Drive clean energy deployment across the UK as a strategic developer, investor, and owner of renewable projects
- Deliver benefits for communities and taxpayers, ensuring the clean energy transition creates jobs, boosts local economies, and increases public ownership
- We focus on innovation, sustainability, and impact, working on projects that matter – from large-scale national renewable investments to empowering local and community energy initiatives.
Joining GBE means
- Purpose-driven work Be part of a national effort to accelerate the clean energy transition
- Career growth Opportunities to develop expertise in cutting-edge energy technologies and strategic investment
- Collaboration and flexibility Work with passionate professionals in a dynamic, forward-thinking environment
If you want to make a real difference and help power a greener, fairer future for the UK, GBE is the place for you.
We welcome applications from all backgrounds and communities. If you require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.
About the Role :
This is a senior technical policy role leading Great British Energy's Strategic Market Interventions function. You will shape and deliver interventions where markets are immature, investment barriers are holding back deployment, or coordinated public action can unlock long-term value for the UK.
You will lead a multidisciplinary team taking complex opportunities from early evidence and market diagnosis through option development, strategic and economic case-making, and approval to proceed. You will work closely with the programme delivery lead so that interventions are designed with implementation in mind. The initial portfolio includes the Deepwater Wind Commercialisation Programme, alongside the development of future interventions across emerging technologies, supply chains and enabling infrastructure.
The role requires excellent policy judgement, strong technical credibility and a practical understanding of how government, public finance and industry work together. You will operate with significant autonomy and provide trusted advice to senior leaders , Ministers and government partners on high-value and often politically
Key Responsibilities:
Lead the strategic interventions portfolio
- Set the direction for Great British Energy's Strategic Market Interventions portfolio and maintain a prioritised pipeline of current and future opportunities.
- Recommend which opportunities should progress, be sequenced differently, pause or stop, based on strategic fit, evidence, affordability, additionality and delivery confidence.
- Ensure the portfolio complements Great British Energy's manufacturing grant and strategic investment activity and remains aligned with wider organisational and government priorities.
Design credible and deliverable interventions
- Lead the diagnosis of market failures, coordination problems, investment barriers, technology risks and policy or regulatory constraints.
- Turn technical, economic, commercial and policy evidence into clear intervention options, delivery models and recommendations.
- Develop strong theories of change, counterfactuals, objectives, success measures and proportionate approaches to learning and adaptation.
- Act as an intelligent customer for specialist technical, analytical, economic and commercial advice, challenging assumptions and being clear about uncertainty.
Secure decisions and approvals
- Lead the overall development of business cases and approval strategies for major interventions, with particular ownership of the strategic and economic cases and the sequencing of evidence and decisions.
- Ensure the rationale, objectives, options, additionality and value-for-money case meet Managing Public Money, Green Book and wider government requirements, drawing on delivery, commercial, financial and legal advice.
- Lead engagement with HM Treasury, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and other government partners on the case for intervention, affordability and strategic approval, anticipating concerns and building agreement around a credible route forward.
- Produce high-quality advice, submissions and board material that gives senior decision-makers clear choices, trade-offs and recommendations.
Lead priority market-shaping programmes
- Set the strategic direction for the Deepwater Wind Commercialisation Programme and other priority market-shaping programmes, with the programme delivery lead accountable for mobilisation, assurance and implementation of approved components.
- Bring together policy, technology, market, commercial and delivery considerations into a coherent pathway from early intervention to commercial scale.
- Work with industry and public partners to test propositions, strengthen the evidence base and identify practical routes to accelerate deployment, reduce costs and build UK capability.
Build future opportunities and capability
- Maintain a forward view of emerging technologies, market developments, supply-chain constraints and strategic dependencies relevant to Great British Energy.
- Lead structured assessment of new opportunities and develop an investable or deliverable pipeline before funding or delivery pressures crystallise.
- Lead a high-performing multidisciplinary team with strong policy, analytical and intervention-design capability, using external expertise selectively where it adds value.
Provide senior leadership
- Act as a senior adviser to the Director, Executive Committee and senior government stakeholders on complex market-development and public-spending questions.
- Represent Great British Energy in senior cross-government, industry and institutional forums.
- Create clarity in ambiguous situations, set priorities and maintain momentum while protecting the quality of evidence and decision-making.
Qualifications and Experience:
- A relevant professional or postgraduate qualification in public policy, economics, engineering, energy, finance, law or a related discipline.
Essential:
- Significant experience leading complex policy development, public programmes or market interventions in central government, a public institution or a closely related environment.
- A strong track record of turning ambiguous market, technology or policy problems into clear, evidence-based and deliverable recommendations.
- Substantial knowledge of public spending and business case development, including practical experience of government approval and assurance processes.
- The ability to integrate and challenge technical, economic, commercial and policy evidence, and explain its implications clearly to non-specialists.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including experience advising Ministers, boards, executive committees or senior officials on complex and contested issues.
- Strong judgement in balancing strategic ambition, public value, affordability, risk and practical delivery.
- A track record of building consensus across organisations with different responsibilities, incentives and perspectives.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams, setting direction and delivering through others in a fast-moving environment.
Desirable:
- Experience in energy, infrastructure, clean technology, manufacturing or supply chains.
- Experience designing grant, competition, concessional finance, innovation or market-creation programmes.
- Knowledge of offshore wind, electricity networks, hydrogen, storage, carbon capture or enabling infrastructure.
Personal Qualities:
- Takes ownership, shows confidence in decision-making, and is willing to challenge constructively
- Focuses on delivering meaningful outcomes and making a positive, lasting impact
- Works collaboratively, valuing different perspectives and building inclusive relationships
- Proactive and adaptable, with a curiosity to explore new ideas and improve ways of working
- Resilient and resourceful in a fast-paced environment
What We Offer:
- Competitive base salary
- Performance-related bonus scheme
- Excellent pension scheme
- 4x salary life assurance
- Group income protection
- 38 days annual leave
- Flexible working arrangements
- Ongoing professional development and training
- Supportive, inclusive working environment
How to Apply:
For further information please contact:
Egle Bulatovaite
Lead Specialist
Application Close Date: 30th October 2026