E.ON Next
Venture Associate
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About the Role
We are looking for commercially-driven, agile-minded individuals to join us on our mission to create a zero carbon, zero bill, zero friction future for our customers. Our internal venture studio is where we turn groundbreaking ideas into reality, shaping a sustainable energy future.
We are seeking a Venture Associate who wants to learn how to build businesses from the ground up, translating ideas into real-world solutions to help real-world people by designing practical solutions and acting as the connection between multi-functional workstreams to accelerate progress and mitigate risks.
This role is focused on supporting the development of new ventures. Working closely with our Entrepreneurs in Residence (EiRs), you'll contribute to validating ideas, building solutions and scaling new ventures, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to turn innovative ideas into practical outcomes for our customers.
Key Responsibilities
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Customer Discovery & Validation:
- Support market and customer research
- Conduct customer interviews
- Synthesise feedback to identify real pain points and validate early-stage business hypotheses
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Venture Execution:
- Design and run rapid growth experiments
- Test landing pages
- Analyse performance data to help the venture pivot or persevere
- Focus on how we can optimise efficiency today to create scalable frameworks for tomorrow
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Venture Operations & Hygiene:
- Take ownership of the startup's operational pulse
- Keep project management tools (like Jira, Asana, or Confluence) tidy
- Ensure tasks, risks, and milestones are accurately logged and tracked
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Financial & Budget Tracking:
- Assist in monitoring the venture's financial runway
- Manage budgets
- Keep spend organised so the venture operates lean and efficiently
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Commercial Strategy:
- Support the EiR in building financial models
- Define go-to-market strategies
- Map out the Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
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Investment Readiness:
- Assist the EIR in gathering data
- Shape the business case
- Organise documentation ahead of crucial investment committee pitches
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- Operational Agility:
- Act as the commercial co-pilot to the EiR
- Navigate the corporate landscape to unblock the team and keep the venture moving at startup speed
Requirements
- Commercial Foundation: Experience supporting commercial, strategy, consulting, innovation, or business transformation projects, or equivalent transferable experience.
- Exceptional Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts in a clear and accessible way to team members, stakeholders, and customers.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills: You can dissect a business model, interpret market data, and turn complex information into actionable insights.
- Experience with lean startup methodologies: You understand that plans change quickly in a venture. You are comfortable with ambiguity, testing assumptions, and failing fast to learn quicker.
- A self-starter: You have a bias for action and a relentless focus on keeping the team moving forward, and an ability to learn quickly on the go.
Desired Skills
- Experience in the energy sector or navigating the processes of a large corporate environment.
- Supported an EIR, founder, or project team in an incubator, accelerator, or early-stage startup.
- A track record of launching a side hustle, entrepreneurial project, or taking a new product to market.
- Proficiency in presentation and communication tools (e.g., PowerPoint and Outlook), alongside PMO and collaboration tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Asana, Monday.com, or SAP).
Benefits
- Fixed term contract length - 12 months
- Competitive salary
- Location – London, Solihull, or Nottingham with travel to our other sites when required.
- Excellent parental leave allowance.
- Award-Winning Workplace - We’re proud to be named a Sunday Times Best Place to Work 2025 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 2024.
- Inclusive & Diverse - We’re the only energy company in the Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers. We’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 guarantee interviews for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role 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.
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Application Process
- Role may close earlier due to high applications.
- Please note that a cover letter is required as part of your application. Applications submitted without one will not be progressed.
- For all successful candidates, your employment will be subject to a basic DBS (Disclosure Barring Service) check being carried out by ourselves via a 3rd party service provider.
- Any questions on the role - please reach out to Eonnext.recruitment@eonnext.com
At E.ON Next, our customers are our number 1 priority! All Nexties - including our executive team - regularly directly support customers so we stay close to their needs and make better decisions that deliver the best experience. E.ON Next is all about creating a sustainable future, now. We're moving our energy in the right direction, one little big step at a time. We’re also here to make this whole energy thing way easier for our customers. Like, really easy. That means providing exceptional service and using state-of-the-art tech to do it. Join us in our mission to bring feel-good energy to everyone...
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