Portfolio Analyst

Job title: Portfolio Analyst

Location: London, Bristol, or Edinburgh (including hybrid) 

Part time available?: Yes - up to 80%

Salary: £55,000 - £75,000

Closing Date: 10th February 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! 

Where in the world of Kaluza will I be working? 

You’ll be joining the Kaluza Product & Delivery community. We’re a group of Product Managers and Leaders focused on translating complex needs into simple and innovative solutions that solve real customer and business problems. 

What will I be doing?

The Delivery & Portfolio team’s mission is to deliver transparently and predictably to our clients. 

The Portfolio team contributes to this by synthesising the holistic view across our work, increasing transparency of information and reducing delays and wait time to ensure we’re ready for what’s coming next.

• Connection: align planning process, cadence & controls across Product & Engineering with strategic objectives. Ensure teams are aware of the outcome they are trying to achieve and how to measure it.
• Transparency: enable us to make informed decisions: making portfolio information readily available  to stakeholders, other teams and any interested parties; creating clarity around the risk areas around achieving strategic objectives. Ensure upcoming work to match our strategic objectives.
• Iteration: define and deploy targeted improvements into the organisation. Help create repeatable, uniform processes, patterns and approaches – documented and shared across Kaluza. 

• Develop and maintain processes and tools to enable a holistic view of Kaluza’s information: [sample metric: increase transparency]
• Tooling: predominantly Jira & Confluence, also includes Craft and Google Workspace. Skilled in getting the best out of tooling across a portfolio.
• Process: e.g. flow of work; people allocation; RAIDD management. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, design, and implement efficient workflows and automation. Conduct regular assessments and optimize configurations to align with business processes. Provide recommendations for improving process efficiency, system usability, and data integrity.
• Data: make the portfolio flow of work transparent and available, to enable prompt and informed decision making. Create and maintain dashboards, reports, and metrics to monitor portfolio performance and support business decision making. 

• Partner with leadership functions in Product, Engineering, and Commercial, to support the planning and delivery of strategic priorities [sample metric: stakeholder rating]
• Engineering: champion the wider change agenda and creating clarity on the upcoming change priorities, supporting change management to Engineering, supporting the readiness to deliver against strategic goals.
• Product: align planning information, process & cadence to ensure readiness for our evolving portfolio of work. Collaborate with product to evolve the product processes.
• Commercial: partner with the Commercial teams, especially Client Success, to ensure readiness for future clients.

Is this the job for me? Ideally you’ll:

• Work in the open, being transparent about our goals and approaches, able to discover and share good and bad news early.
• Use data to inform decisions and measure impact
• Be experienced in Jira (including Jira Query Language) and Confluence. 
• Be proactive in spotting problems/opportunities and draw on a wealth of experience in solving those problems.
• Bias to focussing our efforts on the biggest constraints in the system and needs of the organisation
• Be able to articulate clearly what is needed for improvement.
• Be able to create strong relationships with people at different levels across the org, and bring people along on a change journey.
• Have a thirst for learning, trying things out and sharing with others.
• Be proactive in sharing experiences to the wider community - what’s worked/not worked, what you have learned.
• Have experience of overcoming challenges with a company that is scaling fast.
• Able to navigate uncertainty and adapt to a changing landscape e.g. new information being discovered; change in priorities.

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.

Our values are not words on a wall — they are at the heart of our culture. They are how we make decisions and how we treat each other. They are concrete and clear, and reflect what we as people, and as a business, really care about.

Kaluza’s vision is to power a world where net-zero is within everyone’s reach. Would you be interested in joining us to help achieve this?

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.