Crown Commercial Service
Senior Trader
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Job Title: Senior Trader
Band: 4
Salary: £48,027 - £53,310 (The successful candidate will also receive a non-consolidated trading allowance of £15,000 per annum)
Location: Liverpool
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Closing Date: 16/07/26
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Call to Action
Would you like to use your energy trading and wider energy industry knowledge for public good? Then become part of the expert team within the Government Commercial Agency (GCA) managing over £1bn p.a. commodity exposure and providing energy industry expertise for the central government and wider public sector.
Job Summary
You will work as one of 4 senior traders reporting to the Trading Manager. The team works collaboratively to hedge energy demand for aggregated portfolios and individual public sector organisations, delivering value for money within risk parameters. The team oversees the full operational lifecycle of trading products and provides customer communications to ensure seamless portfolio delivery. As subject matter expert, you will provide strategic technical guidance to the wider energy team, playing a pivotal role in evolving areas such as corporate Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) and direct wire offerings, to meet the shifting needs of our public sector customers.
Key Accountabilities:
- Effectively and proactively execute electricity and gas hedging to deliver value to public sector customers, whilst adhering to relevant risk strategies
- Provide expert level understanding of UK power and gas markets, their underlying fundamental driver and policy frameworks
- Undertake or oversee all back office and forecasting tasks needed to support all aspects of customer price-setting activities
- Draft accurate, informative and timely customer reports
- Support, and represent if required, at strategic meetings with key stakeholders
- Providing expertise to the wider energy team on key GCA development areas, such as direct wire, corporate PPAs, flexibility
Essential Criteria (to be assessed at application stage):
- Trading / Hedging Execution: Proven experience in the proactive execution of gas and electricity hedging, with a demonstrable track record of adhering to formal risk parameters
- Market Analysis: Proven ability to successfully utilize fundamental and technical analysis to inform trading decisions
- Stakeholder Influence: Strong communication skills with a proven ability to translate complex market movements into clear, easy to read reports for a wide range of stakeholders
- IT capability and quantitative aptitude: Proven experience of Microsoft Excel for energy modeling, including the use of advanced formulae, pivot tables, and data visualization to analyze market trends; High standard of general IT literacy. Demonstrable experience in managing and interpreting large, complex datasets to support price-setting or forecasting
- Specialist Energy Structures: demonstrate knowledge and / or experience of non-standard assets, for example direct wire, corporate PPAs, flexibility / DSR
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Success Profiles (to be assessed at interview):
- Technical Understanding of UK energy policy landscape
- IT capability and quantitative aptitude
- Experience
- Communicating & Influencing
- Making Effective Decisions
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Managing a quality service
A link to the Civil Service Success Profiles Framework is provided below
Valuing our people:
- Competitive salary
- Generous pension scheme
- A discretionary non-contractual performance related bonus
- Working remotely in addition to working in advertised office location
- Flexi time scheme (available for B1-B6)
- Minimum 25 days annual leave to a maximum service related 30 days excluding bank holidays
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The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found.
To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.
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Working flexibly, delivering outcomes
GCA operates a smarter working model that balances flexibility with collaboration. Successful candidates are expected to spend at least 26 days per quarter (approximately 2 days per week, pro-rata) at their contracted office, another GCA site, or off-site for meetings. For the remainder of the time, you may work from home or another suitable location that meets business needs.
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Selection Process
A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, which the Civil Service may use to fill future suitably similar vacancies across government for candidates who are considered appointable following interview. Should you be placed on a reserve list and want to be removed please contact recruitment@gca.gov.uk. Please note that as part of this recruitment process, if you are unsuccessful at the interview stage but are close to the benchmark score you may be considered for and offered a role at a lower pay band within the same job family.
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Complaints Procedure
Our recruitment processes are underpinned by the principle of selection for appointment on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles details of which can be found at https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/recruitment/recruitment-principles/
If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact recruitment@crowncommercial.gov.uk in the first instance. If you remain unsatisfied with the response you receive you can then contact the Civil Service Commission at info@csc.gov.uk
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Government Commercial Agency (GCA)
GCA is the largest public procurement organisation in the UK. With over 800 staff, we help thousands of public and third sector buyers in the UK with billions of pounds of spending each year. We have a wide range of commercial agreements to help our customers buy what they need, when they need it - saving time and money.
Why join GCA?
We offer fantastic benefits as well as career development opportunities, have an inclusive culture that values work-life balance and offers flexibility in how you work.
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