An opportunity has arisen to recruit an Senior Commercial Manager, based in our Dublin offices. The successful candidate will have responsibility for co-ordinating a number of strategic programmes across the All-Island market, and will liaise between various departments across the business to ensure commercial outcomes are achieved. Reporting to the Director of Commercial Finance (All-Island), the key duties and responsibilities will be: • Identifying and implementing opportunities to enhance revenue, efficiency, and long-term productivity across the business, delivering tangible commercial value. • Overseeing key commercial risks, including revenue and cost hedging strategies, ensuring robust mitigation measures are in place. • Delivering insightful financial and operational KPIs to support asset performance and meet group reporting standards. • Assisting the GB team in evaluating capital investments and business development opportunities, ensuring commercial viability and risk mitigation during business establishment phases. • Designing and negotiating new contractual arrangements to optimize commercial outcomes and manage risk, whilst overseeing contractor litigation and developing mitigation strategies for existing agreements. • Fostering collaboration across the organization to identify future commercial opportunities, streamline processes, and share best practices across the Group. • Ensuring that regulatory updates and changes are assessed based on the commercial impact on the business and align regulatory strategy to optimise commercial outcomes. • Leading business planning activities across the All-Island operations, aligning strategic goals with operational execution. • Promoting economically sound decision-making through robust economic analysis and high-quality management information, supporting investment, procurement, and operational strategies. • Providing commercial and economic insights to align business planning with maintenance and investment strategies, ensuring both short-term and long-term objectives are met. • Leveraging data analysis to enhance contractor performance, focusing on cost flexibility, maintenance efficiency, and investment planning. • Supporting the analysis of gross margin for the Island of Ireland portfolio, including market modeling of revenues (capacity, energy, ancillary) and costs (fuel, O&M), to inform: commodity and hedging strategies; budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning; business development initiatives; regulatory and TSO negotiations; commercial contract management. • Negotiating fuel and commodity agreements, including physical and financial instruments (futures, options, freight). • Providing commercial and financial guidance on the management of existing operating assets within the All-Island business. • Producing detailed reports covering market positions, key trends, hedging status, mark-to-market valuations, credit exposure, and related metrics. • Collaborating with the Dublin trading team to evaluate and support effective trading and long-term hedging strategies, whilst ensuring all bids are aligned with policy and cost recovery requirements. • Ensuring adherence to risk management policies and procedures through regular review of commercial activities. • Contributing to the development and management of team members, fostering a high-performance culture. Background • Experience of managing and prioritising multiple competing demands on time. • Experience of Commercial evaluation and negotiations eg, Procurement, Acquisitions and due diligence and Contractual disputes. • Experience of litigation management. • Able to employ complex analytical tools and statistics to performance analysis and forecasting of financial and other business information. • Knowledge of investment analysis. • Knowledge of process improvement and change management activities. • Knowledge of the ISEM market and trading would be an advantage. Behaviours • Excellent analytical skills, being able to digest large amounts of data (numerical and text), identifying the key issues and presenting these in a concise and clear manner to non subject matter experts. • Self-starter with exceptional organisational and project management/co-ordination skills. • Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills and have the confidence to liaise with executive management teams. Qualifications • Minimum 2:1 Honours Degree in a Finance, Business, Economics or Engineering related subject. • Accountancy qualification (ACA/ACCA).