Shift Trading Manager
EPUKI
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Overseeing daily trading desk operations, ensuring all transactions are executed with accuracy, compliance, and alignment to agreed strategies and risk frameworks.
- Directing the shift team in optimising portfolio dispatch across wholesale and balancing markets, with particular focus on managing elevated technical and market risk.
- Leading and developing the shift trading team by providing clear guidance, monitoring performance, and resolving operational challenges in real time.
- Ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, trading guidelines, and internal processes during all trading shifts.
- Supporting recruitment by conducting initial candidate assessments, assisting with onboarding, and contributing to trader training and development.
- Monitoring and reporting on team performance against operational KPIs and shift objectives, highlighting key risks and opportunities.
- Acting as the first point of escalation for operational, market, or system issues and co-ordinating effective resolution under pressure.
- Maintaining proactive communication with the Trading Manager and Senior Traders, ensuring alignment on market strategy, shift performance and emerging risks.
- Supporting the development and production of reporting mechanisms and board packs.
- Driving continuous improvement initiatives to enhance trading processes, tools, and workflows.
- Fostering a culture of accountability, accuracy, and operational discipline within the trading team.
Requirements
- Solid understanding of short-term GB power and gas market operations, including intraday and day-ahead trading.
- Working knowledge of trading platforms, position management tools, and operational reporting systems.
- In depth understanding of regulatory requirements, compliance standards, and risk management frameworks within energy trading.
- Demonstrated track record in an energy trading environment, preferably with exposure to intraday or short-term markets.
- Experience leading, supervising or mentoring a trading or operations team.
- Practical involvement in delivering day-to-day trading activities and resolving operational challenges.
- Familiarity with recruiting and onboarding trading team members, including initial candidate screening.
- Exposure to pricing commercial contracts such as ancillary services.
- Experience with automation, algorithmic trading or BESS optimisation (desirable).
- Strong leadership and supervisory skills with the ability to manage and motivate shift-based trading teams.
- Decisive under pressure, with excellent judgment in time-sensitive, high-stakes situations.
- Clear communicator, able to relay strategy, provide feedback, and engage with senior stakeholders.
- High level of organisational skills to coordinate shift activities and ensure seamless market coverage.
- Proactive problem-solver, able to anticipate issues and implement effective solutions quickly.
- Resilient and adaptable, maintaining performance in a dynamic 24/7 market environment.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
energy tradingshort-term GB power market operationsgas market operationsintraday tradingday-ahead tradingregulatory compliancerisk management frameworkstrading activitiesautomationalgorithmic trading
Soft Skills
leadershipsupervisory skillsdecisive under pressureclear communicationorganisational skillsproactive problem-solvingresilienceadaptabilityteam motivationperformance monitoring