Project Manager - 12 month FTC

Job title: Project Manager - 12 month FTC

Location: London / Bristol 

Salary: £50,000 - £60,000

Team: Customer Success

Reporting To: Senior Programme Manager 

Closing date for applications: Friday 28th March 2025

Kaluza reimagines energy to bring net-zero within everyone’s reach. The Kaluza Platform enables energy utilities to unlock the full value of a radically changing energy system and propel us to a future where renewable energy is sustainable, affordable and accessible for all. 

From automating and simplifying core operations including billing to create a lower-cost, higher-engagement experience, to optimising energy usage across smart devices in the home, we turn tough challenges into win-win-win outcomes for customers, suppliers and the energy system. 

We have a strong flexible, hybrid working ethos, we aim to be as flexible as possible to balance work with life. As a company we come together annually for our conference and end of year celebrations! 

What will I be doing?

You’ll be joining Kaluza’s Customer Success team. As a team we lead on Kaluza’s largest, most complicated, and business critical initiatives. 

Kaluza is seeking a dynamic programme manager with experience of harnessing new technologies to deliver change. In this case we need a person to lead programme and initiatives centered around our UK client so any knowledge or experience within the energy industry would be a great help

While this role is primarily client facing, interacting with various client side individuals and teams, you will also work closely with our Product, Engineering, and Delivery teams

About You 

Ideally you’ll have/be;

• Significant programme / project management experience including
• End to end planning and delivery oversight
• Scope management
• Stakeholder management 
• Risk and issue management

• Client management experience - The Programme Management role at Kaluza works directly with our major clients and 3rd parties as well as our internal product and engineering teams.

• Proactive and a problem solver. Someone who:
• Recognises what is important, does it, and communicates progress without needing to be asked
• Can approach obstacles from all possible angles to create a solution

• A critical thinker - Work with stakeholders and clients to understand their requests in the context of platform strategy, proposing alternative options or delivery timelines that meet their needs but prevent an entirely bespoke feature set. Able to turn ambiguity to action

• A strong communicator:
• We need to be able to work across a level of both our and the clients organisation and need to effectively communicate with anyone from subject matter experts, to software developers, to senior executives 

• A quick learner. The energy industry is complex and constantly changing. While you’ll have the support experts in Kaluza, you also need to quickly upskill yourself

• A problem solver: 
• Able to bring stakeholders, or programme team members, with conflicting points of view together to find consensus and agree a way forward
• Collaborative and works others to identify and remove blockers

 What will set you apart 

• Being proactive to the point where people think you’re telepathic

• The ability to zoom in and zoom out. Someone comfortable working at team level at task detail level who can maintain a view of the bigger picture and communicate to senior stakeholders

• A relentless determination to understand complexities (the energy industry, modern software, multi-faceted problems)

• Demonstrating high EQ and empathy that enables you to tailor what you’re doing to suit your audience

Kaluza Values

Here at Kaluza we have five core values that guide us as a business: 

We’re on a mission, We build together, We’re inclusive, We get it done, We communicate with purpose.

Read more about our values over on our careers site.

From us you’ll get

• Pension Scheme
• Discretionary Bonus Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance + Virtual GP
• Life Assurance
• Access to Furthr - a Climate Action app
• Free Mortgage Advice and Eye Tests
• Perks at Work - access to thousands of retail discounts
• 5% Flex Fund to spend on the benefits you want most
• 26 days holiday

• Flexible bank holidays, giving you an additional 8 days which you can choose to take whenever you like

• Progressive leave policies with no qualifying service periods, including 26 weeks full pay if you have a new addition to your family 
• Dedicated personal learning and home office budgets
• Flexible working — we trust you to work in a way that suits your lifestyle
• And more…

Even better? You’ll have access to these benefits from day 1 when you join.

We want the best people

We’re keen to meet people from all walks of life — our view is that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We want to build teams which represent a variety of experiences, perspectives and skills, and we recognise talent on the basis of merit and potential.

We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. But if you're excited about joining us and think you have some of what we're looking for, even if you're not 100% sure, we'd still love to hear from you.

Find out more about working in Kaluza on our careers page and LinkedIn.
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