BESS Coordination Lead

Salary - £85,000 plus company car/car allowance as well as excellent employee benefits
Location- Nottingham or Solihull (Hybrid)

E.ON is expanding its UK Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) portfolio, and we’re looking for an EIS UK BESS Coordination Lead to help turn our ambitious pipeline into investable, build-ready projects.

This is a pivotal role connecting the UK BESS pipeline with E.ON UK, E.ON Group and Energy Infrastructure Solutions (EIS). The role will coordinate opportunities from initial assessment and M&A due diligence through investment governance, execution readiness and Commercial Operations Date (COD).

Working across strategy, commercial, technical and delivery teams, the role will bring structure, pace and accountability to a complex, high-profile portfolio.

What you’ll do

• Own coordination of the UK BESS pipeline from opportunity through to COD.
• Assess incoming BESS opportunities with M&A against investment criteria and coordinate the acquisition governance process.
• Lead Gate 0, 1 and 2 investment approvals, ensuring decisions are robust, timely and aligned with BESS Blueprints.
• Coordinate business cases, financial assumptions and commercial inputs across EIS, EEM, procurement, engineering and finance.
• Drive deployment of BESS Blueprints and Guardrails across the UK and feed project learnings back into central teams.
• Ensure projects are technically and commercially ready to build, including supporting due diligence and acquisition processes.
• Identify organisational capability and capacity gaps and coordinate actions to address them.
• Build and lead a high-performing team as the UK BESS portfolio grows.

• Award-Winning Workplace - We’re proud to be named a Sunday Times Best Place to Work 2026 and the Best Place to Work for 16–34-year-olds

• Outstanding Benefits - Enjoy 26 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, a generous pension, life cover, bonus opportunities, and access to 20 flexible benefits with tax/NI savings.

• Flexible & Family-Friendly - Our industry-leading hybrid and family-friendly policies earned us double recognition at the Personnel Today Awards 2024We’re open to discussing how flexibility can work for you.

• Inclusive & Diverse - We’re the only energy company in the Inclusive Top 50 UK EmployersWe’re also proud winners of Best Employer for Women and Human Company of the Year—recognising our inclusive, people-first culture.

• Support at Every Stage of Life - We’re Fertility Friendly and Menopause Friendly accredited, with inclusive support for everyone.

• Accessible & Supportive - Do you consider yourself as having a disability? As a Disability Confident Employer, we ensure that disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria move forward to the next stage of our recruitment process, and will make any adjustments needed during the process.

• Invested in Your Growth - From inclusive talent networks to top-tier development programmes, we’ll support your growth every step of the way.