Smart Buildings Business Manager - South West
* Job Number: 554849
* Closing at: Aug 1 2025 - 23:55 BST
About the Role
Location: Field Based covering South West England & Wales. We're proud to offer a approach to work, and this role is no exception. We will, however need your base 'home' location to be one of our SSE offices or depots around South West England or Wales.
Salary: Competitive Salary + performance-related bonus + a range of other benefits to support your family, finances and wellbeing.
Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | options available
As a Smart Buildings Business Manager, you will play a critical role in driving our expansion efforts and identifying new fostering strategic partnerships.
This is a leadership position with business P&L responsibility, running an established team covering South West England and Wales.
You Will
* Lead an engineering team working with you to achieve planned objectives and budgets focused on both business and customer needs.
* Work alongside the sales department to grow market share across the South West as well as being a key member of the Business Management Team contributing to company strategy development.
* Manage budget responsibility and forge strong relationships which will ensure commercial and financial compliance; confident the business unit objectives you set are clear and engaging at all levels you’ll regularly monitor and make improvements to maximise efficiencies.
* Have a solid understanding of the industry; ensuring competitor and market differentiation which will make for informed decision making.
You Have
* Leadership skills, this is paramount to your success as it’s essential that your stakeholders, up to and including the Senior Management team, are fully supportive of your operational objectives, plans and achievements and that a collaborative approach to meeting business challenges is established.
* Solid operational background working at a Senior Management level and as such will have experience, leading projects and support engineering teams within the construction industry, preferably within the BEMS Sector.
* Strong commercial acumen and be comfortable presenting findings through accurate forecasting and reporting. You should be an inspiration to others, setting out clear direction, developing innovative plans and identifying opportunities for improvement.
* Performance Management reviews will be required with your direct reports to ensure objectives are clearly set, skill gaps identified and development plans set and reviewed.
* As you’ll be traveling to different sites its essential that you hold a full driving licence.
About our Business
business makes some of the most iconic buildings come alive!
We're one of the largest building controls companies in the UK, renowned for our sustainability credentials; and enjoy strategic relationships with leading technology companies including Honeywell (Trend & Tridium); Siemens and Distech.
We design, install, monitor, maintain and optimise building control and energy systems – helping to achieve optimised working environments leading to the reduction of energy consumption in buildings, and decarbonisation. Our energy efficiency measures include building energy management systems (BEMS), lighting control, heat pumps, battery storage and solar PV solutions encompassing the application of data analytics to provide building performance insights.
Working alongside our colleagues in SSE Energy Solutions, we provide some of the most critical building control, energy generation and supply services required by a Zero Carbon World – enabling commercial and public sector customers achieve their sustainability targets.
We love being a market leader and topping out some outstanding projects to the very highest of standards - on time and within budget!
What’s in it for you?
We offer an excellent package with 34 days annual leave entitlement. Enhanced maternity/paternity leave, discounted healthcare, salary sacrifice car leasing and much more, view our full benefits package
As an equal opportunity employer we encourage diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applicants from all protected characteristics and commit to providing any reasonable adjustments you need during the application, assessment and upon joining SSE. Search for '' to find out more.