Energy Pricing Manager - Kings Hill, United Kingdom - Commercial Services HR

Commercial Services HR

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Kings Hill, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Description

Pricing Manager (from £40,000pa)

About Commercial Services Group

Commercial Services Group (CSG) is one of the largest providers of public sector and education procurement services globally, with revenues of c£500M, 1800 staff and six trading divisions: Global Education Supplies, Procurement, Energy & Carbon, CommunityServices, Professional Services and People Services.

Wholly owned by Kent County Council, CSG supports over 15,000 customers in 86 countries and collaborates with a supply chain of c1,000 suppliers.

The Role

The Pricing Manager is accountable for ensuring accurate forward forecasting of delivered energy prices and robust validation of customer energy rates.

They will manage and develop a team of Analysts to ensure that all fully delivered energy pricing accuratelyreflects expected commodity and non-commodity charges.

They will also be responsible for managing ongoing changes to regulation and charging methodologies; forecasting, presenting and justifying cost impacts.

The Pricing Manager will ensure that all Energy Division rebate income streams are accurately forecast and claimed, in line with the claim schedule.

Key Duties

To define and own the strategy of forecasting, validating and setting delivered energy prices to maximise value for LASER and our customers.
Manage and coach a team of Analysts to:
Forecast changes to the various components of gas and electricity prices and produce forecasts of future delivered energy prices.
Validate suppliers' make up of delivered gas and electricity prices to ensure customers receive accurate delivered prices for each contract period.
Analyse fixedprice tender submissions to make supplier recommendations to customers.
Resolve pricing queries and disputes on behalf of our customers.
Establish and manage KPIs to ensure successful service delivery of the team's functions, taking remedial action where necessary.
Own and optimise processes to ensure timely, robust and accurate service delivery.
Manage a structured claim schedule, for all Energy Division rebate income streams, and report on budget, forecast and actual claim values.
Ensure all supplier rebate claims are completed accurately and in line with the agreed scheduled timescales.
Collaborate with the Procurement Team in ensuring that all trading basket reconciliations are accurately processed.
To enhance data management tools that enable data to be processed more effectively and enhance the accuracy and timeliness of Pricing Team outputs.
Work with the Contracts Manager to ensure that supplier performance is monitored and enables successful delivery of the pricing service.

In return, CSG will offer you: