Smart Buildings Business Manager

Base Location: Field Based covering London and Southeast England

Salary: Attractive salary + car / allowance + performance-related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family

Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available

The Role 

As a Smart Buildings Business Manager, you will play a critical role in driving our expansion efforts and identifying new fostering strategic partnerships. Reporting to the Operations Director, this is a leadership position with business P&L responsibility, running an established projects, maintenance and support delivery & sales team.

You will

• Be responsible for the development and execution of the regional business plan, including financial performance and all aspects of operational delivery.
• Lead an engineering team working with you to achieve planned objectives and budgets focused on both business and customer needs.
• Work with the sales department to grow market share within the retrofit and new build construction market.
• Forge strong relationships which will ensure commercial and financial compliance.
• Have a strong feel for activity in the market place ensuring competitor and market differentiation, which will make for informed decision making.

You have

• A proven track record in delivering and maintaining Smart Buildings or BEMS solutions, with a focus on optimising performance, improving efficiency, and supporting decarbonisation targets.
• Strong leadership skills, able to secure stakeholder buy-in at all levels, including senior management.
• Experience owning business unit P&L – forecasting, budgeting, and delivering accurate, transparent commercial reporting.
• Expertise in leading multi-disciplinary engineering, maintenance, and delivery teams, driving performance, developing capability, and ensuring service excellence.
• Commercial astuteness, with the ability to translate operational data into actionable insights, present compelling business cases, and identify opportunities for innovation and improvement.
• Demonstrated success in account management, developing long-term client partnerships, and contributing to business growth strategies at regional or national level.

About our Business

SSE has a bold ambition – to be a leading energy company in a net zero world. We're investing around £10 million a day in homegrown energy to help power a cleaner, more secure future. Our investment will see us build the world's largest offshore wind farm and transform the grid to deliver greener electricity to millions.

SSE Smart Buildings business makes some of the most iconic buildings come alive!

We’re one of the largest building controls companies in the UK, renowned for its sustainability credentials; and enjoy strategic relationships with leading technology companies including Honeywell (Trend & Tridium), Siemens and Distech.

Our business helps achieve optimised working environments leading to reductions in buildings’ energy consumption through the installation and maintenance of a variety of building control technologies, including Building Energy Management Systems (BEMS), and the application of data analytics to provide building performance insights.

In addition to building control technologies, we deploy smart energy infrastructure solutions including solar PV, battery storage, heat pumps and electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

We love being a market leader and topping out some outstanding projects to the very highest of standards.

Flexible benefits to fit your life 

Enjoy discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships. Wellbeing benefits like a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service. Interest-free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme. As well as generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave. 

Work with an equal opportunity employer 

SSE will make any reasonable adjustments you need to ensure that your application and experience with us is positive. Please contact Andy on andrew.elder3@sse.com / 01738 340826 to discuss how we can support you.

We're dedicated to fostering an open and inclusive workplace where people from all backgrounds can thrive. We create equal opportunities for everyone to succeed and especially welcome applications from those who may not be well represented in our workforce or industry.