IN SHORT

As SVP Sales Solutions UK & France, you will lead the technology strategy, delivery, and operational performance of the application landscape supporting SEFE’s UK and French sales businesses. You will be accountable for the systems, teams, and technology capabilities that enable Market-to-Order and Order-to-Cash processes, ensuring technology investments align with business priorities and deliver value, scalability, and operational excellence across the sales organisation.

WHAT WILL YOU DO

• Define and deliver the technology vision, strategy, and roadmap for Sales Solutions across the UK and France, ensuring alignment with wider CSO priorities and long-term business objectives
• Lead the lifecycle management of a complex application portfolio, overseeing development, enhancement, support, optimisation, and retirement of business-critical sales platforms.
• Ensure technology solutions meet regulatory, security, and operational requirements while maintaining resilient, scalable, and high-performing services for the business
• Manage operational budgets, technology investments, and resource allocation, ensuring delivery priorities are aligned to strategic goals and business value.
• Build and lead high-performing teams and capability managers, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and delivery excellence across onshore and offshore teams.
• Act as the senior technology partner for Sales stakeholders, shaping demand, influencing strategic decisions, and ensuring successful delivery of change initiatives across the UK and French sales businesses.

WHAT WILL YOU BRING

• Significant leadership experience managing large-scale technology functions supporting sales, customer operations, commercial platforms, or related business domains.
• Deep understanding of sales business processes and supporting technologies, including CRM, customer portals, billing, contract management, market interaction, and integration platforms.
• Proven experience defining and implementing technology strategies, application roadmaps, and enterprise architectures that enable business transformation and operational efficiency.
• Strong track record leading large, geographically distributed teams, including capability managers, delivery teams, and external partners within complex environments.
• Experience managing budgets, technology investments, vendor relationships, software licensing, and service performance across a broad application portfolio.
• Strategic, collaborative, and commercially minded leader with exceptional stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence senior business and technology leaders.
• Key Skills: Designs and IT Strategy, IT Strategies and architectures, stakeholder management and Financial management

💡 You don’t need to meet every requirement. If the role excites you, we’d love to hear from you.

ABOUT US

SEFE is an international energy company anchored in Europe, delivering energy solutions that ensure reliable and affordable supply. Our activities span the entire energy value chain – from origination and trading to sales, transport and storage. With decades of trading expertise and a growing LNG portfolio, SEFE is one of Europe’s leading suppliers to industrial customers, providing more than 200 TWh of gas and power each year. We supply over 50,000 clients, from small businesses to municipalities and multinational organisations. By investing in clean energies, we support our customers on their decarbonisation journey and contribute to the energy transition. SEFE employs over 2,000 people worldwide and is owned by the Federal Government of Germany.

Securing energy – now and for the future.

OUR BENEFITS

• 25 days annual leave per annum, in addition to the 8 public holidays normally applicable in England
• Company bonus (% dependant on grade) based upon personal/company performace
• Business & Personal travel insurance
• A personal pension plan of 10% non-contributory
• Life Assurance
• Income Protection insurance
• Private medical insurance
• Private dental insurance
• Free breakfasts and subsidised cafeteria