Hybrid Head of Sales – Energy Services

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About the role

  • Head of Sales for Energy Services at Lucy Electric focusing on leadership, sales growth, and sector strategy. Driving business expansion and maintaining key customer relationships within the UK.

Responsibilities

  • Provide clear direction and leadership to the Energy Services Sales Team, ensuring strong execution of sales plans and delivery of profitable growth across UK Industrial and utility customers.
  • Own the sales budget, forecasting, and pipeline governance, ensuring accurate visibility of opportunities across service contracts, maintenance programmes, HV/LV engineering services, retrofits, upgrades, and asset lifecycle offerings.
  • Develop and implement a sector-specific commercial strategy that grows market share in energy infrastructure services, aligns with operational capability, and positions the business as the preferred partner for electrical network services.
  • Build trusted relationships with key customers, including industrial clients, distribution network operators, EPCs, and energy‑intensive businesses, ensuring long‑term customer retention and recurring service revenue.
  • Oversee the preparation and approval of proposals, tenders, pricing, and commercial agreements, ensuring technical accuracy, profitability, and compliance with internal governance.
  • Work closely with Operations, Engineering, Commercial, and Project Delivery teams to ensure proposals reflect deliverable solutions and that customer commitments are fully supported.
  • Monitor developments in energy transition, industrial electrification, grid resilience, and emerging service needs, translating insights into actionable sales plans and new service offerings.
  • Drive the expansion of service contracts, planned maintenance frameworks, condition assessments, asset lifecycle support, and modernisation programmes to create sustainable, recurring revenue streams.
  • Lead, coach, and develop the sales team, ensuring strong technical understanding of HV/LV services, effective customer engagement, and a high‑performance culture. Set clear sales targets for the team and take responsibility for ensuring these targets are achieved.
  • Enhance sales tools, systems usage, reporting standards, and forecasting accuracy to support data‑driven decision‑making and operational alignment.

Requirements

  • Proven leadership experience in a senior sales or commercial role within the Energy Services, Electrical Engineering, Utilities, or Industrial Services sector.
  • Strong track record of delivering sales growth, meeting revenue and margin targets, and managing large, complex sales pipelines.
  • Experience selling technical or engineering-led services, such as HV/LV maintenance, retrofits, upgrades, modernisation programmes, or asset lifecycle solutions.
  • Demonstrated success in building long-term customer relationships with industrial clients, DNOs, EPCs, or energy‑intensive sectors.
  • Experience leading and developing a high‑performing sales team, including performance management, coaching, and capability building.
  • Proven ability to develop and execute sector growth strategies, including market positioning and value proposition development.
  • Strong commercial acumen, including pricing models, bid management, negotiation, and governance of complex service contracts.
  • Cross-functional experience, working collaboratively with Operations, Engineering, Project Delivery, Finance, and Marketing to create deliverable customer solutions.
  • Understanding of the UK energy sector, including regulatory drivers, energy transition trends, industrial electrification, and grid resilience challenges.
  • CRM and sales process governance experience, ensuring pipeline accuracy, forecasting discipline, and use of data to inform decisions.

Benefits

  • International travel required
  • Continuous professional development opportunities

Job title

Head of Sales – Energy Services

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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