Description

Consultant (C&I Digital and Energy Management System)

LCP Delta are looking for a Consultant specialising in the Commercial & Industrial Digital and Energy Management System (EMS) space, who can play a key role in shaping how businesses navigate the rapidly evolving energy digitalisation and flexibility landscape.

Helping our B2B clients (energy service companies, technology and software providers, energy retailers, aggregators, etc.) grow in and develop solutions for decarbonising and optimising C&I (commercial and industrial) energy use is a growing core area for LCP Delta. This ranges from sizing the market opportunity, to modelling value stacks, to identifying the right (commercial, channel, or technical) partners and acquisition targets, and to building value propositions that C&I end-customers will find attractive (based on our customer research).

LCP Delta's C&I Team

LCP Delta's Commercial & Industrial team supports a diverse array of both existing and new clients including energy suppliers, policymakers, manufacturers, technology companies, investors, network operators, and new market entrants.

Our offerings include:

• Market analysis and forecasting
• Customer research and proposition development
• Strategic innovation consulting
• Energy demand forecasting and modelling
• Supporting clients make effective strategic decisions and innovate for competitive advantage
• Technology and product analysis

Example research and consulting projects:

• Partnership screening (EMS player) for an energy solutions provider looking to develop a smart battery + energy tariff + optimisation offering
• Market sizing for the global energy services market for a major technology and energy services provider
• Customer segmentation and insights for the C&I sector across segments such as retail, offices, healthcare, education, hospitality, heavy and light industries, etc.
• Competitor analysis around providers of controls, building-level or multi-site energy management, and building services
• Value stack modelling (including implicit and explicit flexibility value streams) and customer propositions analysis for C&I battery offering
• Energy contract benchmarking compared to client's key competitors and industry standard (looking at metrics such as contract lengths, services offered, IRR, availability and savings guarantees (%) minimum off-take, etc.)
• Strategic support for an energy services company (ESCo) looking to expand into the C&I space
• Identifying opportunities for various business models in the C&I segment (e.g. Energy Performance contracts, Lighting-as-a-Service, Net Zero-as-a-Service).
• Commercial due diligence for an investment into a high-temperature industrial heat pump company
• Assessing gas demand for the commercial and industrial sector for a gas network operator

This is a great opportunity to:

• Lead and contribute to projects and proposals evaluating standard and cutting-edge digital and energy management solutions, advising LCP Delta clients on innovation, market positioning, interoperability, partnerships, and routes to scale
• Conduct deep-dive assessments of EMS and digital platforms, analysing product / system capabilities and proprietary strengths, and helping clients understand how to unlock value from distributed energy assets across a range of use cases
• Become a recognised thought leader in this space (the intersection of energy systems, digital platforms, and commercial insight)

Your role will involve:

• Delivering on research and consultancy projects (mix of large and small, usually more than one at the same time); delivering reports and engaging content to our clients, including delivering presentations, and simplifying the complex (without overly-technical jargon)
• Working closely with other LCP Delta teams (C&I, distributed energy resource (solar, battery, EV, gensets & CHP) and flexibility teams) to:
  • Produce market-leading content on the digital and control layers that enable the monetisation of value stacks (PV optimisation, peak shaving, tariff optimisation, flexibility market participation, etc.)
  • Position LCP Delta as a full energy value chain expert
• Managing input from others within the team to effectively deliver projects and proposals
• Conducting in-depth research and analysis, including qualitative and quantitative methods
• Providing expert insight and opinion on C&I digitalisation and energy optimisation topics to clients and internal colleagues
• Building and maintaining relationships with industry players
• Supporting other projects in the LCP Delta team outside of the C&I space as required (e.g. residential HEM, controls, and interoperability space)

What skills, experience and qualities are we looking for?

• Hands-on experience with multiple digital and EMS product classes: e.g. Building energy management systems (BEMS), Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems (DERMS), and Optimisation or Virtual Power Plant (VPP) platforms
• A comprehensive understanding of C&I digital and EMS market players and their solutions: i.e. what functions are the various products / solutions able to do across main uses-cases (PV self-consumption, tariff optimisation, demand charge management, arbitrage, grid services participation, backup / resilience)
• Expert knowledge of interoperability protocols and standards: e.g. Modbus, BACnet, IEC 61850, OpenADR, IEEE 2030.5, OCPP, OPC-UA, REST and WebSocket APIs
• An understanding of control systems & protection awareness: e.g. understanding of latencies, closed-loop control risks, failsafe limits, and interlocks in distributed energy resource (DER) controls
• Proven experience of working in the C&I (energy) space and providing technical assessments for energy projects / solutions
• Experience in working with TSO/DSO integrations of EMS and VPPs - would be a preferable edge
• An existing network within the C&I industry and excellent relationship-building skills. We anticipate the role to involve developing relationships with new industry contacts, including attending events, to keep up-to-date with the latest digital and EMS market developments
• Excellent analytical skills and an ability to simplify complexity
• A desire to grow your knowledge base and become a recognised thought leader
• Experience in leading teams to deliver projects
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and a team player
• Ability to manage a varied workload and multiple deadlines, with good organisational skills

What's in it for you?

Take a look at our Glassdoor 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. This may be extra time for assessments, pre-interview site visits, interview structure or questions, or asking us about building accessibility. Whatever it may be, please get in touch via our dedicated email address - accessibilityaware@lcp.uk.com to discuss how we can support you with your application.

Recruitment agencies

LCP operates a Preferred Supplier List (PSL) for recruitment agencies which is reviewed annually. We do not accept unsolicited CVs from agencies who are not part of our current PSL. LCP only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place, and the agency has been instructed by a member of our recruitment team to supply CVs via the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) for a legitimate, open vacancy. If this process is not adhered to, LCP reserve the right to contact these candidates directly and have discussions with them without paying any agency fees. We do not pay agency fees when speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to any employee or Partner at LCP.