European Career Opportunities at Summit Energy

Summit Energy is the world’s largest, international, independent energy and sustainability management firm. Summit helps its customers minimize their energy spend and control risk associated with volatile energy markets. Summit’s strengths are in its people, processes and systems that have been developed over the past 20 years. Summit maintains long-standing partnerships with sophisticated Clients which have allowed Summit to continuously improve its systems, process and skills to become the leader in our industry.

In early 2011, Summit was acquired by Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management. This acquisition solidifies Summit’s position as industry leader and opens up new avenues for growth and future business development.

Send your CV and covering letter to: europejobs@ems-schneider-electric.com

ENERGY SOURCING ANALST - WAREGEM/DISON (BELGIUM)

Waregem, Belgium
Posted: 08 April 2013

Position Summary:
We have fantastic opportunities to join our Energy Sourcing team and this position will be based in one of our Belgium offices (Waregem or Dison). Do you have good communication, analytical and interpersonal skills and a keen attention to detail? You will be joining a team that is vital to the future success of the business, and you will play a key role in ensuring this success.

Responsibilities include:

• Manage client and supplier relationships through excellent formal and informal communication
• Work closely with the Client Management and other internal teams to deliver an exceptional level of service to our clients
• Manage the tendering, analysis and subsequent contract award and placement processes relating to complex energy supply contracts
• Negotiate and utilise quantitative and qualitative techniques to deliver optimal contract energy supply terms and prices for our clients through regular interaction with UK and European energy suppliers
• Own and develop business processes to the highest standards of efficiency, control and accuracy
• Provide input to and testing support for system development projects

Education:

• An excellent academic background, ideally at degree level and in a numerate and/or analytical discipline
• Fluent written and spoken French, Dutch and English highly desirable

Skill set:

• An exceptional analyst; highly numerate, able to think on your feet and with great attention to detail
• An excellent influencer and collaborator, forming effective relationships with demanding stakeholders
• A great communicator, capable of engaging people of varying levels of seniority and experience
• Highly skilled in the use of Excel and other MS Office applications
• Experience of working in a team and with strong time management and organisational skills
• Results focussed, self-directed, tenacious and highly motivated

To apply, send your CV and covering letter to europejobs@ems.schneider-electric.com.

CLIENT MANAGER

Waregem, Belgium
Posted: 08 April 2013

Position Summary:
As a Client Manager, your key job responsibilities include building relationships with key client corporate contacts, developing a client energy plan and gaining client approval, coordination of the energy plan from the customer’s perspective, elevating savings opportunities, and tracking and reporting progress to the client. This person will be based in Waregem (Belgium).

Character requirements:

• Integrity: demonstrates this in all interactions
• Leadership: proven track record of effective leadership in a sales or client relationship role
• Boldness: willingness to display appropriate boldness in leading clients to best solutions and practices
• Service: committed to serving clients with a high degree of professionalism.

Position responsibilities:

• Coordinate all activities for key clients/the setup and implementation for new clients with client stakeholders and internal delivery resources.
• Develop the client energy plan, gain client approval, and consensus from our internal resources.
• Coordinate execution of the energy plan from the customer’s perspective, and provide regular reports (internal/external).
• Manage all aspects of client relationship so that client recognizes value being delivered, both strategically and tactically.
• Track all energy activity related to clients and pro-actively elevate client savings opportunities, coordinate internal resources to deliver these savings, and track progress against energy plan.
• Communicate customer needs to organization for further product/service developments/enhancements.
• Effectively use knowledge of energy markets in specific countries to enable effective support and recommendations
• Develop knowledge of energy markets across Europe and convey recommendations to clients.
• Coordinate client deliverables and expectations to internal resources.
• Act as client advocate internally in order to achieve desired program results in accordance with client energy plan.

Essential skills and qualifications:

• Experience directly interfacing with customers in a client relationship capacity.
• Extensive knowledge of the energy industry that includes experience of supply contracts for large industrial and/or commercial end-users, and a proven track record of identifying cost-saving or value generating opportunities for large end-users.
• Energy commodity sales, risk management, and/or Demand Side Management (DSM) experience a plus
• Minimum bachelor’s degree – Master’s degree preferred
• Excellent analytical, verbal and written communication skills (English, French, Dutch)
• Organizational skills; ability to manage multiple priorities
• Excellent customer service skills, toward internal and external customers
• Good professional reputation; commitment to personal integrity and strong character
• Proficiency in a MS Windows environment (i.e. Word & Excel).

Benefits:

• A growing company in a dynamic and growing industry
• Entrepreneurial company with a positive corporate culture
• Competitive salary and bonus opportunities
• Company benefits package (company car, health, disability & life insurance, a.o.).

To apply, send your CV and covering letter to europejobs@ems.schneider-electric.com.

CLIENT SUPPORT ANALYST

Waregem, Belgium
Posted: April/May 2013

Position Summary:
This position would assist a group of client energy managers in producing client deliverables. Key job responsibilities include generating reports, populating online client tools with up-to-date information, gathering information regarding Summit client sites, creating Excel spreadsheets and Power Point presentations and communicating with clients at the plant and corporate level.

Position responsibilities:

• Support client team in presentations and meetings.
• Provide client training on Summit’s client website, Resource Advisor Software Application
• Coordinate the receipt of external energy invoices
• Facilitate new client rollout with internal & external teams
• Establish relationships with clients at the plant and corporate level when needed
• Field customer inquiries
• Understand & adhere to the processes and controls of Summit Energy
• Elevate and communicate potential breakdown of systems, policies and procedures
• Contribute to process enhancement & new process development

Character Requirements:

• Integrity: demonstrates this in all interactions
• Decisiveness: has the ability to sort through information and make appropriate and timely decisions
• Initiative: recognizes and acts on what needs to be done without being asked to do it
• Diligence: energized by being diligent in meeting deadlines and completing tasks on time.
• Thoroughness: pays close attention to detail and produces accurate work in a timely fashion
• Responsibility: understands expectations and follows through in accomplishing them

Essential Skills and Qualifications:

• Strong customer service, analytical and organizational skills
• Proficiency in Outlook, Word, Excel & Power Point
• Strong initiative and ability to work in a fast paced, changing environment
• Strong communication and composition skills, specifically with plant and corporate level management
• Bachelors/Masters degree or equivalent experience
• Energy industry terminology and standards preferred

Benefits:

• A growing company with a positive industry reputation
• Recognized leader in a market where energy services are in demand
• Entrepreneurial company with a positive corporate culture
• Competitive salary and company benefits package

To apply, send your CV and covering letter to europejobs@ems.schneider-electric.com.