European Short Term Trading Manager

As the Short Term Trading Manager in Europe, you'll oversee short-term trading. You need to know the CWE markets and a trader's duties. You'll train junior traders, create strategies, and make shift desk tools.

We're growing to lead European short-term trading. This job is key to improving our team and SSE Energy markets. It's a great chance for the right person.

You will set up ways to advance and evaluate traders at all levels. You will define their jobs and responsibilities. This includes measuring a trader's value and managing their career progress.

Your tasks will be:

- Lead European DAH and Intraday Trading plans. Make tools and strategies to gain more and lose less.

- Build and keep operational tools. These help Operations teams compete better and increase PPA value.

- Work with other European trading desks. Aim for a long-term strategy. Also, support trade analysts to give traders more trading time.

- Create, keep, and manage relationships with people inside and outside the company.

- Work with Regulation and Compliance teams. Ensure we meet all rules.

A degree in Maths, Physics, Engineering, or Economics or equivalent experience.

- Experience analyzing the European power market. Know about commodity markets, industry players, and what drives them.

- Skills to make and use complex analysis tools and models.

- Skills to make and explain complex trade ideas.

- Ability to watch trading positions and think of new trade ideas.

SSE has big ambitions to be a leading energy company in a low carbon world. Following our commitment to invest £20.5 billion in low carbon projects to 2027, we have significant growth plans and are well on our way to achieving our ambition to build a world that's more sustainable and inclusive for you, your family, the community you live in and for generations to come. We are proud to be playing a crucial role in the net zero transition, ensuring we have the energy supplies required to meet the needs of our customers; procuring the fuel required by the generation plants and selling the power output from our renewable and low-carbon thermal assets., Energy Markets (EM) is the heart of the SSE Group, securing value for SSE's asset portfolios in wholesale energy markets as we move towards our vision of being a leading energy company in a net zero world. We play a critical role as the short-term energy market asset optimiser, and a long-term energy market adviser, for all SSE's Business Units (across SSE's Wind, Hydro, Low Carbon Thermal, Distributed Energy and Customer portfolios). This role for EM enables SSE to focus its investment in energy markets capabilities (including Trading, Risk Management, Energy Economics, Settlements and Advanced Analytics) in one centre of excellence, with these enhanced capabilities supporting value creation and decision making across the SSE Group.

Salary: Competitive + performance-related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available, We offer an excellent package with 34 days annual leave entitlement. Enhanced maternity/paternity leave, discounted healthcare, salary sacrifice car leasing and much more, view our full benefits package on our careers site.