Introduction
In just 10 years, Octopus Energy has evolved from a disruptive challenger into the UK’s largest energy retailer and a well-loved brand, serving more than 8 million customers. Our rapid expansion has been powered by consistently strong growth across diverse sales channels, the smooth integration of retailer acquisitions, and impressive customer retention.
We continue to lead and redefine the energy market through innovative time-of-use tariffs and data-driven commercial strategies that transform how customers engage with energy. We empower customers with dynamic pricing and “Intelligent” EV charging, rewarding them for shifting consumption to greener, cheaper periods.
Role Summary
You will be the leading analyst in the GB Commercial Analytics “pod”, delivering pricing operations, commercial reporting, and growth insight to drive sales and retention, margin, compliance, and customer satisfaction.
You will act as a strategic business partner to Commercial, Sales, Marketing and Energy Markets teams, combining hands-on technical expertise with strong team leadership.
- Own end-to-end pricing operations for domestic tariffs, including launches, quarterly price changes, margin reporting and intelligence, and ensuring regulatory / price cap compliance for millions of customers.
- Drive pricing strategy and optimisation through competitor intelligence, market analysis, and data-driven recommendations to the Senior Leadership Team.
- Own and evolve commercial reporting pipelines across customer switching, sales activity from all channels, marketing campaigns, retention and competitor insight.
- Deliver growth and customer insight, including key metric reporting, funnel analysis, customer forecasting, and retention initiatives.
- Set priorities, coordinate and review the work of a small, high-performance team of data analysts.
- Partner with Commercial, Sales, Marketing, Energy Markets, Flexibility, Gross Margin and Strategic Finance teams to provide customer forecasting inputs, KPI reporting, margin analysis and strategic support.
- Contribute to and collaborate with our global working groups to ensure aligned reporting and shared analytics projects.
- Champion data best practices and continuous improvement in analytics engineering, tools and automated processes.
- Hands-on expertise with modern data platforms and analytical tools (especially SQL and python) – see our full stack below.
- Strong commercial acumen, preferably in pricing, margin optimisation, and/or growth analytics.
- Proven experience mentoring and developing data professionals.
- Strong communication skills to influence non-technical stakeholders and senior leadership.
- A track record of delivering actionable insights that drive measurable business impact.
Our Data Platform Stack
We employ software engineering best practices to design, test, and deploy our data platform and services using the below technologies:
- Python, pandas and SQL in Jupyter notebooks for analysis
- dbt and Databricks data platform with Delta Lake
- Lightdash as our BI tool and semantic layer
- Streamlit for interactive data applications
- Airflow for orchestration
- Kubernetes for application deployment
- CI/CD with GitHub and CircleCI
- Infrastructure on AWS, deployed with Terraform / Spacelift
Why You’ll Love It Here
- Salary discussions are welcome on a call with a recruiter to ensure the package matches your experience and the right octofit.
- Octopus Energy Group has a unique culture, built on autonomy, collaboration, and ownership, with recognition and perks that align with your contributions.
- We were named the UK’s top company to work for and ranked in the top ten in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024.
- Our benefits include access to Octopus Employee Benefits.
- If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.
Are you ready for a career with us? We aim to provide the tools and environment you need to unleash your potential. If you need accommodations or have a preference, let us know so we can tailor the interview process for comfort and maximum impact.
Equal opportunity statement: Across Octopus, we’re looking for genuinely decent people who are honest and empathetic. Our people are our strongest asset, and we are committed to providing equal opportunities in an inclusive work environment for everyone.
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