Senior Platforms Automation Manager, OVO
£55-75k
+ on-target bonus of 15%
More information about location
Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone
Be an early applicant
Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£55-75k
+ on-target bonus of 15%
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
OVO is a leading energy technology company determined to create a world with clean, affordable energy for everyone. Using energy, technology and people power, the company is on a mission to lower its carbon emissions to zero by 2035, helping customers reduce theirs at the same time - they call this Plan Zero.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 5+ years of experience in a similar role
- Top 3 qualities for this role: Problem-solver, Collegiate, Thorough
- Communicate - clear and direct written and verbal communication is a must for any leader at OVO. A leader of this squad will be able to take technical concepts and reframe them so that different audiences can understand them
- Exercise curiosity, judgement and humility - guiding our enablement strategy will benefit from an analytical mindset, strong systems thinking and ultimately good judgement. Our culture calls on us to make wise decisions despite ambiguity. And when you inevitably make mistakes, you learn from them and share them with others so that we can all learn
- Bring tools and enablement experience - you will drive the overall automation and productivity tooling strategy to meet internal demand as well as build for the right end-user experience. You will have a strong understanding of technical systems & platforms and experience building and maintaining productivity tools for internal users that have a customer-centric objective
- Build culture - you will shape a positive culture and agile mindset for the cross-functional team: an inclusive environment that engages in productive debate, rewards curiosity in understanding the business problems we’re trying to solve, and reinforces accountability to outcomes
What the job involves
- Team: Enterprise Security and Platforms
- Reporting to: Head of Productivity Technology
- This role in 3 words: Increasing people efficiency
- You drive the product strategy for automation and productivity tooling- focussed on colleague needs, product analytics, financial targets and external industry innovation
- You work closely with business and tech teams to ensure that the backlog of automation and integration development work is aligned with the efficiency requirements of over 10,000 people delivering plan zero
- Key elements of the role:
- Being user focussed and translating business needs into a clear vision, epics and user stories
- Up to date on market and industry trends
- Prioritising effectively to achieve maximum value
- Creating and maintaining product roadmap
- Aligning teams and partners with strategic direction
- Facilitating knowledge sharing across teams
- Your key outcomes will be to:
- Build a deep understanding of current and future internal stakeholder needs
- Own the strategy for how to enable all internal stakeholders to leverage productivity capabilities
- Define and drive the roadmap tooling across the full lifecycle of productivity tooling, automation and integration feature development
- Identify opportunities for the highest leverage across all stakeholders
- Collaborate across OVOTech teams and internal stakeholders to make build vs buy recommendations for automation and integration work
- Determine if and how to automate processes and integrate tech
- Current product portfolio
- Gen AI Tooling
- Automation technology
- Integration Technology
- Atlassian - Jira Service Management, Jira Software and Confluence
- Google Workspace and Slack
- Microsoft Office
- Mobile device management (Mosyle and Intune)
- Remote device management (N-Central)
- Colleague device fulfilment
- Hardware Inventory Management
- Software Inventory Management (Flexera)
- Other collaboration (Miro, 1Password …)
- Software purchasing (NetPremecy, VAR TBC)TBC:
- Workplace technology support (SPOR, Envoy)
- Tableau and ThoughtSpot (TBC)
- Manage until moved:
- Connectivity (Mobile)
- Identity (included in Workspace and O365)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
On average, home energy represents 26% of our carbon footprint. Ovo Energy wants to bring this to zero by providing cheaper, greener and simpler energy to customers. They are analysing meter data to deliver easy, personalised actions, turning electric vehicles into power stations with clever chargers, and building energy-efficient heaters. For households, their offering is organised into four different energy plans. that include interest rewards on energy credit balance.
In 2020, OVO completed the acquisition of SSE Energy Services' retail arm for £500 million, meaning that the challenger brand now has around 4 million customers in the UK.
While helping Ovo members halve their carbon footprints, the company is also working towards becoming a net zero carbon business by 2035. The challenges ahead for the company include encouraging consumer behaviour change, shifting towards subscription models for home energy use.
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42% female employees
14% employee growth in 12 months
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Employee endorsements
Inspiring mission
"The mission to provide Green energy to all customers, and to enable all our customers to start on a journey towards zero carbon living is written in..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2023
$265.7m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Feb 2019
$265.7m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $572.5m
Company benefits
- Annual Discretionary Bonus
- 9% Flex Pay - extra on top of your core pay to use as you like. You can take it as cash, use as your pension contribution, or choose to spend it on a huge range of flex benefits (tech schemes, EV leasing and more!).
- Flexible / Remote Working
- Personal Development Allowances and Free Access to OVOLearn - our very own training platform
- 34 Days Holiday (including bank holidays)
- Health Insurance
- £400 OVO Energy Discount
Company values
- Find a better way - We always look for a better way, whether that’s by delivering a better service, employing brilliant people or improving our products and processes
- Do what's right - Being open, honest and fair is one of the values which applies to everything we do. We take pride in talking to our customers and delivering exceptional work
- Build something great - Simple solutions aren’t quick or easy to find. They take time and tenacity. Our people work to find an answer that helps us ‘build something great’
Company HQ
Redcliffe, Bristol, UK
Articles
Leadership
Stephen Fitzpatrick
(Founder)Founder of multiple electric technology companies.
David Buttress
(Chief Executive Officer)CEO of OVO, the UK’s 3rd largest energy supplier. Joined in May 2024.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at OVO
Alessandro Storer (Head of Inclusion & Belonging )
- We run inclusive training and unconscious bias workshops for employees and interviewers
- We provide mental health support, through different networks, having mental health first aiders within the business and running initiatives like our "wellbeing Wednesdays" to promote this.
- We have dedicated Early Years programmes with a focus on underrepresented groups, offering different training opportunities within the business.
- We invest in tools, like Textio, and focused I&D job boards to help us reduce bias in our job postings and recruitment activity.
- Commitment in improving diversity across our Tech Teams and working with companies to improve the tech ecosystem as a whole, specifically have committed to 25% Women in Tech at OVO by 2025
- We've signed up to numerous charters, like the Tech Talent Charter, Race at Work Charter and Trans in the City, to show our continuing commitment to improving I&D within OVO and the wider community
- Within OVO we have multiple belonging networks and communities set up, to offer support and forums for everybody
- Read more about our commitments to improving Diversity & Inclusion at OVO in our linked belonging report
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