Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 / week
Salary: circa £70,000 depending on experience
Location: Birmingham, Leeds or London
WFH policy: Employees are required to attend the office 2 days/week
Openings: 2
Flexible working: Variety of flexible work patterns subject to line manager discretion e.g. Compressed 9-day fortnight.
Reports to: Lead Project Manager
Deadline Note: We reserve the right to close the advert before the advertised deadline if there are a high volume of applications.
Role Summary:
LCCC is expanding its role in delivering critical low-carbon schemes that support the UK's transition to Net Zero. These schemes include Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage (CCUS), Hydrogen Production and Storage, Sustainable Aviation Fuel and other emerging market mechanisms.
The Technical Project Manager will manage the delivery of complex technology platforms and scheme implementation activities required to implement these schemes. This includes the delivery of settlement and billing platforms, levy management capabilities and other technology solutions, alongside wider scheme implementation activities required to establish and operate new schemes.
Scheme implementation activities may include governance arrangements, operating model development, procurement activities, funding and financial arrangements, organisational readiness, business process development and other capabilities required to support successful scheme launch and operation.
Working across business, operational and technology teams, the Technical Project Manager will provide delivery leadership throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring that requirements are translated into practical and effective solutions and that complex interdependencies are actively managed.
The role requires an individual who can operate confidently in a complex, evolving environment, bringing structure to ambiguity, challenging assumptions constructively, and driving delivery across multidisciplinary teams where direct authority may not exist.
Delivery Leadership
- Lead the successful delivery of complex business and technology projects supporting new and existing low-carbon schemes.
- Develop and maintain delivery plans, critical paths, milestones and dependency maps across multiple workstreams.
- Drive projects through all phases from initiation and mobilisation through to implementation and operational handover.
- Establish clear delivery objectives and ensure alignment across stakeholders.
- Provide clear visibility of project status, risks, dependencies and delivery confidence to senior stakeholders and governance forums.
- Create structure and momentum within complex delivery environments, ensuring delivery remains focused on achieving business outcomes
Technology Delivery
- Manage delivery of technology-enabled solutions including settlement systems, billing capabilities, levy management solutions and associated operational processes.
- Work closely with Business Analysts, Operations teams and Technology teams to ensure business requirements are understood, challenged where appropriate and translated into deliverable solutions.
- Maintain sufficient understanding of business processes, data flows and system functionality to identify risks, challenge assumptions and facilitate informed decision-making.
- Coordinate testing, implementation and transition activities to support successful deployment of technology solutions.
- Ensure dependencies between technology workstreams and wider scheme implementation activities are actively managed.
- Support successful transition from project delivery into business operations.
Scheme Implementation
- Lead the delivery of scheme implementation activities required to enable successful launch and operation of new low-carbon schemes.
- Coordinate the development of governance arrangements, decision-making frameworks and associated documentation.
- Manage delivery of operating model, organisational design and business readiness activities required for scheme implementation.
- Coordinate procurement-related workstreams, ensuring dependencies, timelines and risks are effectively managed.
- Support the implementation of funding, financial and operational arrangements required for scheme mobilisation.
- Ensure operational teams are prepared to assume responsibility for scheme operation following implementation.
- Maintain visibility of interdependencies between technology delivery and wider scheme implementation activities.
Stakeholder and Dependency Management
- Build effective relationships across Operations, Technology, Finance, Legal, Procurement, Governance and Policy teams.
- Actively identify, manage and resolve cross-functional dependencies and delivery risks.
- Facilitate decision-making where competing priorities, constraints or stakeholder views exist.
- Influence stakeholders at all levels to support delivery objectives and outcomes.
- Act as a trusted delivery partner, providing constructive challenge and facilitating collaboration across teams.
- Provide clear, concise and transparent reporting to senior stakeholders.
Risk and Issue Management
- Proactively identify delivery risks, assumptions and issues before they become material problems.
- Drive resolution of delivery blockers and escalate appropriately when required.
- Ensure delivery risks are understood, quantified and actively managed.
- Governance and Continuous Improvement
- Ensure projects operate within agreed governance frameworks and reporting requirements.
- Contribute to the ongoing improvement of project delivery practices, tools and standards.
- Capture lessons learned and apply them across future scheme implementations.
Essential
- Excellent commercial experience in project management, delivery management or programme delivery roles within complex business and technology projects.
- Experience delivering payment, billing, settlement, trading, financial operations or transaction-processing systems.
- Demonstrable experience leading delivery across multidisciplinary teams including operational, business and technical stakeholders.
- Experience managing projects involving complex business rules, financial calculations, transaction processing, billing, settlement, revenue management or similar operational platforms.
- Experience working in environments with significant regulatory, governance or compliance requirements.
- Experience delivering projects where requirements evolved during delivery and ambiguity had to be actively managed; demonstrable ability to create structure, clarity and momentum in complex delivery environments.
- Strong delivery planning and dependency management capability.
- Ability to understand and challenge both business and technical assumptions without requiring deep technical specialism.
- Ability to balance Agile delivery approaches with the need for delivery forecasting, governance and milestone management.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, particularly in matrix organisations; excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Desirable
- Experience in regulated industries such as energy, utilities, financial services or government.
- Experience supporting implementation of operational business processes alongside technology delivery.
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. Key benefits that may be available depending on the role include:
- Annual performance based bonus, up to 10%
- 25 days annual leave, plus eight bank holidays
- Up to 8% pension contribution
- Financial support and time off for study relevant to your role, plus a professional membership subscription
- Employee referral scheme (up to £1500), and colleague recognition scheme
- Family friendly policies, including enhanced maternity leave and shared parental leave
- Free, confidential employee assistance, including financial management, family care, mental health, and on-call GP service
- Three paid volunteering days a year
- Season ticket loan and cycle to work schemes
- Family savings on days out and English Heritage, gym discounts, cash back and discounts at selected retailers
- Employee resource groups
The Low Carbon Contracts Company (LCCC) exists to help decarbonise the generation of electricity and make it more affordable for the future. Our work is central to the delivery of the Government’s objective to achieve Net Zero target by 2050.
Discover more about LCCC and what it's like to work with us by watching this video:
https://vimeo.com/1071699533
Please take the time to answer the optional diversity questions
At LCCC, we are powered by curiosity, driven to learn from different perspectives and experiences as we work towards a flexible energy future. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can be their authentic selves and feel empowered to own every outcome.
We believe that we are better together – and that diverse teams, reflective of the communities we serve, help us thrive, innovate and deliver greater impact. Your diversity data helps us track how well we're progressing towards our inclusion goals.
Please note that any diversity data you share is completely anonymised and used only in aggregated reports that are not linked to individual candidates.
