Shift Trading Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Overseeing daily trading desk operations, ensuring all transactions are executed with accuracy, compliance, and alignment to agreed strategies and risk frameworks.
• Directing the shift team in optimising portfolio dispatch across wholesale and balancing markets, with particular focus on managing elevated technical and market risk.
• Leading and developing the shift trading team by providing clear guidance, monitoring performance, and resolving operational challenges in real time.
• Ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, trading guidelines, and internal processes during all trading shifts.
• Supporting recruitment by conducting initial candidate assessments, assisting with onboarding, and contributing to trader training and development.
• Monitoring and reporting on team performance against operational KPIs and shift objectives, highlighting key risks and opportunities.
• Acting as the first point of escalation for operational, market, or system issues and co-ordinating effective resolution under pressure.
• Maintaining proactive communication with the Trading Manager and Senior Traders, ensuring alignment on market strategy, shift performance and emerging risks.
• Supporting the development and production of reporting mechanisms and board packs.
• Driving continuous improvement initiatives to enhance trading processes, tools, and workflows.
• Fostering a culture of accountability, accuracy, and operational discipline within the trading team.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Background

• Solid understanding of short-term GB power and gas market operations, including intraday and day-ahead trading.
• Working knowledge of trading platforms, position management tools, and operational reporting systems.
• In depth understanding of regulatory requirements, compliance standards, and risk management frameworks within energy trading.
• Demonstrated track record in an energy trading environment, preferably with exposure to intraday or short-term markets.
• Experience leading, supervising or mentoring a trading or operations team.
• Practical involvement in delivering day-to-day trading activities and resolving operational challenges.
• Familiarity with recruiting and onboarding trading team members, including initial candidate screening.
• Exposure to pricing commercial contracts such as ancillary services.
• Experience with automation, algorithmic trading or BESS optimisation (desirable).

Behaviours

• Strong leadership and supervisory skills with the ability to manage and motivate shift-based trading teams.
• Decisive under pressure, with excellent judgment in time-sensitive, high-stakes situations.
• Clear communicator, able to relay strategy, provide feedback, and engage with senior stakeholders.
• High level of organisational skills to coordinate shift activities and ensure seamless market coverage.
• Proactive problem-solver, able to anticipate issues and implement effective solutions quickly.
• Resilient and adaptable, maintaining performance in a dynamic 24/7 market environment.

Qualifications

• Degree in a STEM, economics, mathematics, engineering, finance, or a related discipline (or equivalent industry experience).

About [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is a flexible power generation company jointly owned by EPH and TotalEnergies. Headquartered in Amsterdam, the company owns and operates more than 20 flexible power and biomass-based assets across Italy, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands and France.

As of May 2026, [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] operates more than 14 GW of installed or in construction capacity and produces close to 30 TWh of electricity per year. This robust and diversified portfolio makes [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] the second‑largest gas‑to‑power player in Europe.

Thanks to its flexible power generation capacity and its utility-scale battery storage solutions, [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] contributes to Europe’s security of supply while supporting power grids with the challenges of growing intermittent renewable energies integration, such as wind and solar. We are also active in the supply business in the Netherlands and Italy, and we operate a gas storage facility in the UK.

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