Stakeholder Engagement Lead

Job Advert: Stakeholder Engagement Lead

Location: Warwick or London (Hybrid working 3 days a week in office)

Contract length: 6-Months (Potential to Extend)

Pay Rate: 450 per day via Umbrella (inside IR35)

As the UK accelerates its journey toward net-zero by 2050, our client is at the heart of reshaping the energy landscape. This role is pivotal in driving strategic stakeholder engagement across UK and European energy markets, ensuring alignment between policy, infrastructure, and commercial goals.

You'll be a senior figure in the Business Development, Customer and Stakeholder team-leading engagement with regulators, European institutions, and infrastructure partners to influence energy policy and support the UK's gas transition.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead engagement strategies across UK/EU forums, ministries, and energy institutions.
• Represent the organisation in European trade bodies and policy discussions.
• Influence cross-border energy trade and policy alignment.
• Build and manage relationships with terminal operators, shippers, regulators (e.g. Ofgem), and infrastructure partners.
• Support regulatory submissions and negotiations.
• Track and interpret UK/EU energy policy developments.
• Translate external insights into internal strategic plans.
• Act as a bridge between external stakeholders and internal teams (commercial, technical, regulatory).
• Ensure stakeholder feedback informs infrastructure and commercial planning.
• Lead stakeholder engagement workstreams for energy transition programmes.
• Coordinate strategic briefing materials and commercial artifacts.
• Provide informal leadership and mentoring across the team.
• Influence senior internal and external stakeholders without formal authority.

Key Skills and Experience

• Proven experience in stakeholder engagement, policy advocacy, or strategic partnerships within the energy, utilities, infrastructure, or EU policy sectors.
• Deep understanding of UK and European energy transition, including gas market dynamics, interconnectors, and energy sharing frameworks.
• Experience working with regulators (e.g. Ofgem) and contributing to RIIO submissions or similar regulatory processes.
• Strong strategic thinking, communication, and influencing skills.
• Ability to operate in complex, multi-stakeholder environments and manage competing priorities.
• Experience with National Grid Ventures, energy balancing, or cross-border energy projects is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with CRM systems and stakeholder tracking tools (desirable).

Please note: Due to the high volume of applications, only successful candidates will be contacted. If you do not hear from us within 48 hours, unfortunately, your application has not been successful on this occasion. However, we may retain your details for future suitable vacancies.

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