Scottishpower Hiring for Commercial Graduate – Renewables Job at Glasgow, Scotland Full Time

Renewables Commercial Graduate

Glasgow

£28,400

Our Business

ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and world leader in wind energy. Our focus is on wind energy, smart grids and driving the change to a cleaner, electric future. We’re proud to say we produce 100% green electricity and are well on our way to our ultimate journey to Net Zero.

We’re investing over £1.4 billion in the UK – every year – for the next 5 years. Working on cutting edge innovation projects, we’re creating a smarter, cleaner and more efficient network, as well as building and maintaining windfarms, as we work towards Net Zero. And, with contributions of £40m to charitable causes during the last 5 years, we’re investing in our communities as well to create a better future, quicker, for everyone.

ntributions of £40m to charitable causes during the last 5 years, we’re investing in our communities as well to create a better future, quicker, for everyone.

ScottishPower Renewables

The renewables industry is expanding rapidly and ScottishPower is at the forefront of that development. With a range of high value capital projects across the world, at various stages from consents to construction, there’s never been a more exciting time to join our team to help us increase our use of green technologies and reduce our impact on our planet.

Securing our position as a leader in the renewable energy industry, we now have 40 operational windfarm sites, and are exploring ventures in battery storage and solar energy. We’re leaving carbon generation behind for a renewable future powered by green energy, to make our air cleaner and the generation of electricity cheaper.

Why choose ScottishPower?

There’s never been a more exciting time to join us, and we need great people like you to help us succeed on our journey to Net Zero! During your time on the graduate programme, you’ll face new challenges and experience a diverse range of opportunities. You might be working in different areas of the business or focusing on your chosen specialism. Either way, you’ll be creating a network of colleagues and fellow graduates that’ll support your growth and development throughout your career. Your programme is tailored to you and your personal development and will include a combination of behavioural and technical modules and placements. Our programme is designed to bring out the best in you, helping you find the career path that’s right for you.

As a graduate trainee and part of ScottishPower, you’ll have a range of benefits as well as a varied and interesting career path, including:

• A competitive starting salary of £28,400
• A generous pension scheme where we’ll double match your contributions up to 10%
• A broad range of flexible benefits including share incentive plans, employee discounts, charity matched funding and many, many more

What will you be doing?

Our Commercial functions play a vital role within the renewables industry; monitoring and influencing the Global Energy Market, conducting analysis to identify investment opportunities and ensuring adherence to energy policy. And with environmental changes and political updates ranging from evolutionary to radical, this is a dynamic environment engaged in a wide range of business activities that will accelerate our journey to Net Zero.

As a Commercial Graduate, you’ll support the SPR Investment Office, providing financial analysis of Onshore and Offshore Renewable investment opportunities. Presenting an economic business case to local and global executives, your report will allow the Final Investment Decision to be made on a proposed project. Or your analysis and due diligence might be used to make acquisition and divestment decisions, supporting the enhancement of our organic pipeline of projects, essential to our ambitious growth plans.

You’ll participate in the Capacity Market in the UK and Ireland, developing your understanding of the market rules, pre-qualifying sites and preparing for auctions. And of course, we want to maximise the competitiveness of our projects to secure a Route to Market, so you’ll need to get to know our competitors intimately. Using this knowledge, you’ll collate market intelligence and collaborate with multiple stakeholders to identify ways to financially optimise our projects in these extremely competitive markets. We’re committed to investing in a greener future and we’d love for you to join us.

Who are we looking for?

YOU! We want you. We want people with talent and ambition, a desire to learn, who embrace innovative ideas and challenge others to think differently. Above all, you must share our passion for excellence to deliver for our customers; and you must be excited to help us generate the change needed to deliver a better future, quicker. Because nothing matters more.

We want to hear from you if you have, or expect to achieve, an Honours Degree (or equivalent) at a minimum of 2:2 in a Business, Economics, Finance, Accounting degree or similar.

Reference ID: Grad22/Comm

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £28,400.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Referral programme
• Sick pay
• Store discounts
• Wellness programmes

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

COVID-19 considerations:
all of our sites have covid safety measures in place and we continue to monitor government guidance

Work remotely:

• Temporarily due to COVID-19