SSE plc
Senior Analyst
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Base Location: You'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in our Perth, Edinburgh or Glasgow office
Salary: £51,600 - £77,400 + performance-related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.
Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available
The role
As a Senior Energy Analyst, you’ll step into a trusted and visible role where your insight, care and commercial judgement will genuinely shape decisions across a complex GB energy portfolio. You’ll bring deep market understanding and a thoughtful, data-led approach to help the business navigate change, make confident trading and portfolio choices, and identify opportunities in fast-moving power and gas markets. Working in close partnership with stakeholders up to ExCo and JV Board level, you’ll be valued for your ability to translate complexity into clarity, build shared understanding, and deliver outcomes with diligence and integrity.
You will
- Provide expert, high-quality analysis across GB power and short-term gas markets (including BM, spot and day-ahead) to support timely, confident decisions
- Collaborate closely with internal and external stakeholders to develop well-governed, commercially robust insights and recommendations
- Turn complex data and market dynamics into clear, accessible narratives that support senior leaders and decision forums
- Help shape commercial opportunities by monitoring regulatory change and industry challenges, and thoughtfully assessing impact and risk
- Bring care and precision to your work, maintaining strong attention to detail and supporting governance and controls
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You have
- Deep experience and expertise in highly specialised areas of GB energy trading and market operations
- Strong commercial understanding and advanced numeracy, with confidence building insight from data and systems
- Comfort with coding and/or data management approaches, and an interest in continuously improving analytical capability
- A proven ability to influence with clarity and empathy - supporting stakeholders at all levels up to Executive Director and Board
- A collaborative, grounded style: you share knowledge generously, ask for help when needed, and bring others with you through change
About SSE
SSE’s purpose is to provide energy needed today while building a better world of energy for tomorrow. We do this by developing, building, operating and investing in electricity infrastructure and businesses needed in the energy transition. Our Transforming for Growth investment plan sees us investing £33bn in critical electricity infrastructure across the five years to 2030.
SSE Energy Markets secure the energy needed to power customers' lives, while creating value for SSE. Our Energy Markets trading teams buy the fuel needed to deliver cleaner energy and sell power generated in our wind farm, hydro and thermal assets back to the markets.
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Flexible Benefits To Fit Your Life
Enjoy discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships. Wellbeing benefits like a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service. Interest-free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme. As well as generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.
Work with an equal opportunity employer
SSE will make any reasonable adjustments you need to ensure that your application and experience with us is positive. Please contact Janet.Gossman@sse.com / 01738 351816 to discuss how we can support you.
We're dedicated to fostering an open and inclusive workplace where people from all backgrounds can thrive. We create equal opportunities for everyone to succeed and especially welcome applications from those who may not be well represented in our workforce or industry.
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