Head of Strategic Market Interventions

Job Title:

Head of Strategic Market Interventions

Location:

Hybrid - Aberdeen or Edinburgh Reporting to:
Supply Chain Strategy and Partnerships Number of Roles Available: 1

Company Overview:

Join Great British Energy and be part of powering the UK’s Clean Energy Future.

At GBE, we’re not just building an energy company - we’re shaping the future of the UK’s energy landscape.

Our mission is clear:
* Drive clean energy deployment across the UK as a strategic developer, investor, and owner of renewable projects
* Deliver benefits for communities and taxpayers, ensuring the clean energy transition creates jobs, boosts local economies, and increases public ownership
* We focus on innovation, sustainability, and impact, working on projects that matter - from large-scale national renewable investments to empowering local and community energy initiatives.

Joining GBE means
* Purpose-driven work Be part of a national effort to accelerate the clean energy transition
* Career growth Opportunities to develop expertise in cutting-edge energy technologies and strategic investment
* Collaboration and flexibility Work with passionate professionals in a dynamic, forward-thinking environment

If you want to make a real difference and help power a greener, fairer future for the UK, GBE is the place for you.

We welcome applications from all backgrounds and communities. If you require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.

About the Role:

This is a senior technical policy role leading Great British Energy's Strategic Market Interventions function. You will shape and deliver interventions where markets are immature, investment barriers are holding back deployment, or coordinated public action can unlock long-term value for the UK.You will lead a multidisciplinary team taking complex opportunities from early evidence and market diagnosis through option development, strategic and economic case-making, and approval to proceed.

You will work closely with the programme delivery lead so that interventions are designed with implementation in mind. The initial portfolio includes the Deepwater Wind Commercialisation Programme, alongside the development of future interventions across emerging technologies, supply chains and enabling infrastructure.

The role requires excellent policy judgement, strong technical credibility and a practical understanding of how government, public finance and industry work together. You will operate with significant autonomy and provide trusted advice to senior leaders, Ministers and government partners on high-value and often politically

Key Responsibilities:

Lead the strategic interventions portfolio
* Set the direction for Great British Energy's Strategic Market Interventions portfolio and maintain a prioritised pipeline of current and future opportunities.
* Recommend which opportunities should progress, be sequenced differently, pause or stop, based on strategic fit, evidence, affordability, additionality and delivery confidence.
* Ensure the portfolio complements Great British Energy's manufacturing grant and strategic investment activity and remains aligned with wider organisational and government priorities.

Design credible and deliverable interventions
* Lead the diagnosis of market failures, coordination problems, investment barriers, technology risks and policy or regulatory constraints.
* Turn technical, economic, commercial and policy evidence into clear intervention options, delivery models and recommendations.
* Develop strong theories of change, counterfactuals, objectives, success measures and proportionate approaches to learning and adaptation.
* Act as an intelligent customer for specialist technical, analytical, economic and commercial advice, challenging…