Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

As part of our senior leadership team, you’ll play a strategically important role in launching and scaling our high-growth subscription product across Europe.

As the director for the product you will develop a team of modellers, researchers, product managers, market experts and sales executives to form the operating model for product growth.

This is a high priority role within the Ricardo organisation, and as such would suit someone with expert knowledge of the wholesale electricity and power market across Europe, experience in delivering and managing product businesses and KPIs / P&Ls, plus foundational knowledge of medium to long term projections modelling concepts and software.

Key Responsibilities

• Leadership: you’ll balance the delivery of the subscription product commercial plans projects with leading, coaching, and inspiring teams of analysts and energy modellers such that they continuously exemplify Ricardo’s values, improve their performance capability and develop to their full potential. 
• Project delivery: you’ll develop a clear and detailed understanding of the target and potential markets and customers and using this to define the medium- and long-term strategic direction of the product business. You will also oversee the implementation and management of multiple regions simultaneously providing both internal and external stakeholders with the orientation they need to achieve the business objectives.
• Market knowledge: you will have an expert understanding of the electricity and power markets. You will use this knowledge to create content and presence in the industry, gaining a reputation for thought leadership and using this to further the growth of the subscription product.
• Developing new business: you’ll independently contribute to building and deepening close customer and market relationships across Europe and will use these to further the brand and reputation of the product and organisation. You will the face of the brand, acting as the internal CEO of the product.

Key Competencies and Experience

• You will demonstrate drive and passion to achieve the introduction, growth and scaling of a new business, demonstrating commercial acumen to achieve business and product targets.
• You have extensive experience in delivering complex products and / or services within the power sector and wholesale electricity markets.
• You will have strong financial management skills, ensuring the various trade-offs between costs and revenue targets are managed and under control.
• You’ll be collaborative by nature and have an empathetic leadership style that demonstrates skill in inspiring, raising performance and developing your teams.
• You’ll want to use you intellectual and analytical excellence to make real and tangible impacts that influence the complex decisions our clients need to make.
• You’ll thrive on using your personal impact to create the highest quality products combining first class analytics and modelling with clear presentation of insights.
• You must be a native English speaker or be of mother-tongue level. 

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on.  Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance 

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health. 

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.