Residential Flexibility Consultant

LCP Delta is looking for an experienced consultant to help clients understand how residential flexibility is developing across Europe and support them to develop strategies to commercialise it. This is a fantastic opportunity to support our growth in this fast-developing area, with the role focused on delivering excellent research and consulting projects in residential flexibility. The role sits in our Residential Smart Energy team, which focuses on the intersection of energy retail, flexibility, customer propositions, electrification and digital services meet.

Our Residential Smart Energy Team

Our Residential Smart Energy team focus on the point where energy retail, flexibility, customer propositions, electrification and digital services meet. We support our clients understand the outlook for residential flexibility, and how they can develop strategies and business models to capture value from it. We support energy retailers, OEMs and policymakers through research and consulting that answers practical strategic questions: how much value is there in residential flexibility, how can it be captured, and which propositions should be developed?

Our work in residential flexibility focuses on how propositions are emerging across Europe, who is developing them, how their business models stack up, end-customer propositions and attitudes towards residential flexibility. A key focus is understanding where and how value is captured and shared across the value chain. We work collaboratively with other teams, for example on the opportunities V2G presents. Our work combines market analysis with advice to help clients make clear commercial decisions.

This is a great opportunity to:

• Develop, deliver and manage cutting-edge research and projects on residential flexibility
• Work at the forefront of a high growth sector within the energy transition
• Build a profile as a trusted expert in European residential flexibility
• Build relationships with a range of industry stakeholders and support the development of our growth in this area

What will you be doing?

• Managing and delivering research projects within our Residential Smart Energy research service and residential flexibility consulting projects
• Leading research using qualitative and quantitative methods, including expert interviews, market analysis, desk research and data analysis
• Producing clear, engaging and meaningful outputs for clients including reports, databases, viewpoints and presentations
• Communicating insights to clients virtually and in-person through meetings, presentations, email and webinars
• Managing projects, budgets and client relationships
• Building relationships with industry contacts and using those to strengthen our marketing insight and business development activities
• Identifying emerging trends and helping to translate them into client-relevant insight
• Providing expert opinion on flexibility to clients and colleagues
• Supporting less-experienced analysts to grow their expertise and develop skills
• Collaborating closely with colleagues across the Residential Smart Energy team and other teams (e.g. EV team) to deliver and develop successful projects
• Where required, supporting business development activities such as lead generation and developing proposals

What skills, experience and qualities are we looking for?

• Proven experience of working in flexibility, ideally including experience working in residential flexibility
• A solid understanding of:
  • Flexibility value streams across Europe, with a specific focus on the accessibility and monetisation of residential assets; able to articulate to both expert and non-expert audiences how flexibility value streams differ across countries, and how these differences affect business models and customer propositions
  • The business models and propositions of key stakeholders monetising residential flexibility across the value chain, from customer acquisition through to trading; including a firm understanding of the market conditions that have enabled these business models to emerge
  • The challenges faced by a range of stakeholders (for example, OEMs, independent aggregators and suppliers) in developing residential flexibility…