Deployment Optimisation Manager

Job Description

Are you someone who continuously looks to improve processes and performance to ensure maximum productivity?

If so, we may have the perfect opportunity for you here at EDF as a Deployment Optimisation Manager!

The Opportunity…

Reporting to the Senior Manager of Field Operations and Optimisation, in your role as Deployment Optimisation Manager you’ll have end-to-end empowerment and responsibility for delivering results that help our customers and our company.

You’ll be empowered to make decisions and in turn empower your teams to do the same in order to deliver great customer outcomes, great employee experience and tangible value for the EDF Business Solutions (EBS) Core and Metering team.

You will play a pivotal role in overseeing and optimising the operational support functions within our metering team. This role encompasses planning, demand management, and capacity management to ensure the smooth and efficient execution of our operations.

Pay, benefits and culture

Alongside a salary starting from £44,800, potential to earn 5% bonus, 28 days holiday plus bank holidays and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include a range of benefits, from the big and formal to the small and personal.

We’re talking about everything from enhanced parental leave to electric vehicle leasing, health insurance to product discounts, critical illness insurance to technology vouchers, gym membership to season ticket loans.

At EDF UK, we embrace flexibility while recognising that everyone's working needs are different. Whether you're in our office spaces, on site, or working remotely, we promote an environment that supports collaboration, connection, and comfort. No matter where you are, our priority is to make sure you feel safe, valued, and celebrated.

Here, we do right by each other and everyone’s welcome. We’re on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, diversity, and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility. The team usually meet up at the office in Hove once a month, the rest of the time you can work remotely or go into the office as you wish.

We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments.

We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we support you to pursue a career that’s unique to you. Because success is personal.

What you’ll be doing

We’re looking for a driven and experienced leader to manage a team of Senior Schedulers and Schedulers, playing a key role in ensuring the successful delivery of all metering work. This role is central to supporting the objectives of our EBS Core, Metering, Field, and Optimisation strategies.

A strong focus of the position will be on continuously evolving and enhancing current scheduling processes and procedures. You’ll be responsible for identifying trends, inefficiencies, and bottlenecks, all with the aim of streamlining operations to improve both the employee and customer experience. Taking ownership of these improvements, you’ll lead the implementation of changes and foster a culture of continuous improvement within the team.

Developing and empowering the team is a key aspect of this role. You’ll work to maximise efficiencies and ensure the team can focus on their core responsibilities without unnecessary complexity. By introducing new practices, evolving ways of working, and applying detail-driven decision-making, you’ll help ensure each field-related workstream operates as effectively and efficiently as possible.

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who can lead and develop a team with a key focus on driving excellent performance, personal accountability, employee wellbeing and continuous improvement.

You’ll have experience within a collaborative environment so you can ensure smooth delivery of activity in order to enhance the customer experience. You will provide regular reports on progress and maintain accurate and reliable data ensuring smooth delivery of all activities working to balance potentially conflicting business objectives.

You’ll have the ability to consistently achieve successful delivery against stretching personal and team targets and have experience in rolling out new process and systems, engaging users. You will also be able to demonstrate the ability to translate requirements into practical deliverables and have resilience whilst working under pressure and flexible in approach to ensure deadlines are met.

If you’re a confident communicator with the ability to connect with different types of people and can engage peers and influence colleagues both internal and external, then we’d love to hear from you!

Closing date for applications: 26.03.2025
Location: Flexible/Home working – occasional travel for team meet ups required

Additional Information

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