THE ROLE
As Data Analytics Manager, you will lead NextEnergy Group's central Data Analytics team, driving analytics strategy and delivery across diverse domains such as asset management, investment management, GIS, and ESG. You will set the vision for analytics, manage and develop a team of analysts and ensure the delivery of high-quality, actionable insights that support business growth, digital transformation, and sustainability objectives. This role is pivotal in shaping the Group's data-driven culture and enabling advanced analytics and AI adoption.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Team Leadership & Development: Lead, manage & develop the Data Analytics team, fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation and continuous learning. Provide coaching, mentoring and professional development opportunities for team members
- Analytics Strategy & Vision: Work with the Head of Data & AI to set and communicate the analytics strategy and priorities, aligning with business goals, digital transformation initiatives, and regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR)
- Project Delivery & Oversight: Oversee the delivery of analytics projects, ensuring quality, timeliness, and measurable business impact. Allocate resources, manage workloads, and remove barriers to success
- Stakeholder Engagement: Partner with senior stakeholders to identify opportunities for data-driven decision-making, influence business strategy, and communicate analytics outcomes
- Analytics & Insight Generation: Support your analytics team with complex elements of data analytics projects including statistical analysis, complex calculations and high priority dashboards
- Data Governance & Management: Partner with the Data Engineering Manager & Data Governance Manager to ensure alignment across your domains and that your Analytics team are gathering, preparing and analysing high quality data in accordance with internal policy & external regulation
- Reporting: Report on analytics outcomes, team performance, and business impact to the Head of Data & AI and wider leadership. Present findings and recommendations in a clear, compelling manner
- Process Automation: Identify opportunities to automate & transform analytics & reporting processes to improve efficiency & scalability
- Documentation & Knowledge Sharing: Ensure your team are consistently documenting methodologies, processes & findings and sharing their knowledge with the wider team to support transparency and reproducibility
- Continuous Improvement: Stay current with industry trends, analytics best practices & emerging technologies. Proactively suggest enhancements to processes & tools.
SKILLS & COMPETENCIES
To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate:
- Leadership & Team Management: Proven ability to lead, motivate, and develop analytics teams. Experience managing diverse, cross-functional teams in a matrixed environment
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to set vision, strategy, and priorities for analytics in alignment with business objectives
- Technical Excellence: Advanced proficiency in SQL & Excel for data manipulation and with data visuaisation tools (e.g. PowerBI). Strong knowledge of Python. Familiarity with cloud data platforms (e.g. Snowflake)
- Business Acumen: Detailed understanding of the business processes in at least one of our data domains e.g. Asset Management, Investment Management, ESG & GIS
- Stakeholder Engagement: Excellent communication and relationship-building skills. Ability to influence and collaborate with senior leaders and cross-functional teams
- Storytelling: Confidence building a story around data insights as well as communicating this with business stakeholders in an understandable and engaging manner
- Analytical & Problem Solving : Ability to interpret complex data and generate actionable insights. Strong attention to detail and commitment to data quality
- Leadership & Collaboration: Proven ability to mentor junior analysts and lead cross-functional projects
- Time management & prioritization skills- things can get a little hectic, so the ability to effectively manage yourself and your workload is critical
- Excellent communication skills in English (additional European languages are a bonus) - you must be able to organize your thoughts in a way that others find clear and compelling. Translating & presenting complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. You will be expected to together well-written, grammatically correct emails and other communications. When communicating verbally
- Flexibility- being an effective team player means being flexible in your approach and open to getting involved with new things, even if they are not spelt out in your job description
- Intellectual Curiosity – we are looking for someone who is truly interested in our profession and has the intellectual curiosity to delve deep into topics and bring fresh ideas to the team
- Delivery focus – it may sound obvious, but the ability to proactively churn through work at pace and deliver quality outputs matters
- Passion for our mission 'to generate a more sustainable future by leading the transition to clean energy
- Our values: be a leader, build trust, be responsible, be innovative and 'bring your alpha'.
EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS - Bachelor's or Masters degree in a quantitative field (e.g. Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science) or alternative relevant educational achievements (e.g. apprenticeships, arts degrees + work experience)
- 6+ years of experience in data analytics, with at least 1 year in a managerial or leadership role
- Experience managing analytics teams and delivering cross-domain analytics projects
- Experience working across multiple business domains
- The right to work in the UK, Italy, or Spain.
WHAT WE OFFER
- A busy role in a supportive team, with plenty of opportunities to learn
- International scope – we operate in over 8 countries
- Hybrid working
- Competitive base salary and annual discretionary bonus.
HOW TO APPLY
If you are interested in this opportunity, please follow the link to apply or send your application to careers@nextenergygroup.com. If you have been shortlisted for the next stage, we will be in contact within 14 days.
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DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
Our approach to diversity and inclusion is a natural extension of our values. Our entrepreneurial culture inspires us to try new things, be open to different viewpoints and be bold. Our Group is committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of connectedness that values difference and gives space for individual expression. The collective sum of our individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, innovation, self-expression, and talent and hard work form the bedrock of who we are and who we aspire to be.
We are committed to equal employment and advancement opportunity irrespective of race, color, ancestry, social background, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability and gender identity.
ABOUT US
NextEnergy Group was founded in 2007 to become a leading market participant in the international solar sector. Since its inception, it has been active in the development, construction, and ownership of solar assets across multiple jurisdictions. NextEnergy Group operates via its three business units: NextEnergy Capital (Investment Management), WiseEnergy (Operating Asset Management), and Starlight (Asset Development).
NextEnergy Capital manages the Group's investment activities and has invested in over 520 solar plants, exceeding 2GW in capacity across its institutional funds.
- NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF): Listed on the London Stock Exchange, NESF manages 102 solar and energy storage assets in the UK and Italy, with a total installed capacity of 983MW and a gross asset value of £1,014m.
- NextPower II (NPII): A private fund of 105 solar plants (149MW) focused on Italy, successfully divested in January 2022, delivering net IRRs exceeding its 10-12% target.
- NextPower III ESG (NPIII ESG): A private fund targeting solar infrastructure in OECD countries (e.g., US, Spain, Italy), with $896m raised, exceeding its $750m target.
- NextPower UK ESG (NPUK ESG): A private fund dedicated to new-build solar plants in the UK, with ~£600m raised.
- NextPower V ESG (NPV ESG): A private OECD solar fund investing in solar and adjacent technologies like battery storage. To date, it has raised $745m, targeting $1.5bn ($2bn ceiling).
WiseEnergy® is NextEnergy Group's operating asset manager. WiseEnergy is a leading specialist operating asset manager in the solar sector. Since its founding, WiseEnergy has provided solar asset management, monitoring, technical due diligence and under construction services to over 1,500 utility-scale solar power plants with an installed total capacity in excess of 3.4 GW. WiseEnergy clients comprise leading banks and equity financiers in the energy and infrastructure sector.
Starlight is NextEnergy Group's development company that is active in the development phase of solar projects. It has developed over 100 utility-scale projects internationally and continues to progress a large pipeline of c.10GW of both green and brownfield project developments across global geographies.
NextSTEP is the venture capital fund of NextEnergy Group, dedicated to investing in innovative startups in the field of environmental sustainability. The fund primarily focuses on investments in Italy and the United Kingdom but also extends its reach to the rest of Europe and the United States, targeting startups in the pre-seed and seed stages. NextSTEP pays particular attention to emerging entities from incubators, startup accelerators, universities, and research centers, supporting projects that address global challenges in crucial areas such as Climate Change, Energy Transition, CO2 Capture and Sequestration, Circular Economy, Sustainable Cities, Sustainable Mobility, Sustainable Fashion, Waste Management, Water and much more.
NextEnergy Foundation is a non-profit organisation founded in 2016 by the NextEnergy Group that operates internationally and whose mission is to proactively participate in the global effort to reduce carbon emissions by providing clean energy sources in regions where they are not yet available and thereby contributing to poverty reduction. As the main sponsor of this foundation, the NextEnergy Group donates at least 5% of its consolidated net profits each year. The NextEnergy Foundation has no overhead costs and therefore 100% of the funds raised go to donations for the various projects. Since 2016, in 8 years of operation the foundation has donated more than £1.2 million, supporting over 30 projects in 27 different countries around the world.
