Overview
We are thrilled to be partnering with Energy UK, the foremost national trade association representing the energy industry. As champions of positive transformation, Energy UK is at the forefront of the sector's transition to Net Zero. They believe that achieving this ambitious goal requires strong collaboration and strategic partnerships across the industry.
To support these efforts, they are looking for a Stakeholder Relationship Executive to join their influential Member team. In this role, you will be instrumental in strengthening relationships with Members and stakeholders, playing a key role in shaping the energy sector's future.
Your responsibilities will include gaining a comprehensive understanding of key stakeholders, identifying strategic opportunities for collaboration, and contributing to the industry's collective decarbonisation efforts. This is an excellent opportunity for an early-career professional to be at the heart of transformative change in the energy sector.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build and nurture relationships with Members and stakeholders across the energy landscape.
- Deepen your understanding of industry policy issues and key strategic objectives.
- Identify areas for collaboration and actively support initiatives to achieve common goals.
- Serve as a connector between diverse stakeholders, including renewable energy providers and tech innovators.
- Lead and oversee the Young Energy Professionals Forum, fostering a network of emerging talent in the sector.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of a robust stakeholder engagement strategy.
What We're Looking For:
- Passion for the energy sector and the drive to support the UK's transition to Net Zero.
- Demonstrable experience through work or academia in energy or related fields is a plus.
- Proven relationship-building abilities with an interest in expanding partnerships.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the confidence to engage with a diverse range of stakeholders.
- Proactive, self-motivated, and adaptable, with a focus on achieving results.
- Highly organised, detail-oriented, and goal-driven.
- A collaborative team player with enthusiasm for working in a dynamic, evolving industry.
Deadline for applications is 23:59 on Wednesday 23rd October. No cover letter is required, but please ensure you have highlighted all relevant experience on your CV.
Energy UK offers a welcoming and flexible hybrid working environment from their office in Central London, blending home working with office-based collaboration 2-3 days a week. This full-time permanent role is ideal for someone looking to make an impact at a pivotal moment in the sector's evolution.
Applicants must have the right to work in the UK, as sponsorship is not available at this time.
Both Murray McIntosh and Energy UK are proud to be an equal opportunities employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability or age.

Anna Kelly
Principal Consultant – Policy, Public Affairs & Strategic Communications
Murray Mcintosh have been incredibly helpful in delivering a successful candidate for a challenging role at BEAMA. As a small organisation we don’t often lean on agency support and in the past this hasn’t helped us. But we found the right recruitment agent who help recruit fantastic candidates for a specialist role in the energy sector. In a competitive employment market their help has been so valuable and we are so pleased with the result. All candidates they shortlisted we incredibly impressive and we weren’t expecting to be faced with such a hard decision. Huge thanks to the team and we look forward to working with you again.
BEAMA - Yselkla Farmer, Chief Executive Officer at BEAMA
We moved ahead with a retained engagement, offering us the most thorough search with a quicker turnaround than other engagement types we had experienced before.
We first contacted Anna in August 2022. We were looking for help to fill a vacant Policy Advisor role within our team. In a tricky market we had been struggling since the start of the year to find the right candidates through our usual channels. Anna took the time to understand the challenges we’d experienced, the support we needed, and nature of the role, before providing a solution.
We moved ahead with a retained engagement, offering us the most thorough search with a quicker turnaround than other engagement types we had experienced before. Given our needs, this approach seemed like a no-brainer! As an executive non-departmental body, we have quite specific supplier terms, which Anna was able to accommodate. This willingness to be flexible and collaborative to get the terms right enables us to work together in the longer term.
Anna worked with us speedily and met for a role brief to define expectations before establishing a strict timeframe to ensure we could close the vacancy before Christmas. We got going at the end of November with a timeframe of 6 weeks. However, following a one-stage interview process with 5 strong candidates, we made an appointment after just 5 weeks, and the successful candidate has now joined the team and is already an asset!
Ben Hardy - Policy & Government Relations Manager at CITB
We will use the retained search again as they demonstrated that their network and market mapping process uncovers a strong selection of candidates.
We have recently placed our Head of Public Affairs using Murray McIntosh, an important hire for us as we are about to enter a period of transition for the organisation so the role is key support to our Director of Policy and Public Affairs. We had engaged another agency but did not see the quality of candidate we needed.
Lauren talked us through the retained search method and explained how this ensures a thorough search, tied to a timeframe. Our PPA Director found this particularly useful, as we could work around his diary in advance.
We met to brief the role and define expectations on both sides, including a check-in point halfway through the market mapping process to ensure a relevant shortlist was coming together. Lauren was insightful, reliable and very transparent throughout and the process proved to be very efficient.
We started in January. The role was placed 6 weeks later after seeing 6 video interviews on The Lobby platform, inviting 3 candidates for first stage interview, and seeing 2 for a final stage.
We will use the retained search again in future as they demonstrated for us that their network and market mapping process uncovers a strong selection of candidates. That being said, they only introduce those who have demonstrated their interest and commitment to the role, so our time wasn’t wasted by dropouts and the offer process for our favoured candidate was very straightforward.
HR Manager - HR Manager at London chamber of Commerce and Industry
Multiple successful placements across our Public Policy team as well as our Communications and International department.
We started working with Murray McIntosh in 2016, and have since made multiple successful placements across our Public Policy team as well as our Communications and International department. From Economists to niche Tech and Innovation policy roles, to our first permanent Government Affairs hire based in Brussels, they’ve shown a real understanding of the market and our organisational needs,
The MM team always make the effort to understand requirements thoroughly and beyond that, appreciate the importance of culture fit, too.
Working on a retained basis, they develop their process to suit our timescales and always produce shortlists of talented individuals who are well qualified on skillset as well as motivation.
Of our most recent process for a Senior Policy Manager, working on trade policy, our Head of Policy commented on an extremely strong shortlist of stand-out candidates from which it was tough to make a choice!
Katie Milbourn - Director of Group HR at The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders Ltd
It was critical that we engaged an agency that could work efficiently and knew how to promote us to a competitive market.
Energy UK has recently been through a restructure and this resulted in a number of key vacancies across our policy and communications teams. This not only presented a challenge for volume candidate attraction but also put pressure on internal administration and interviewing- made even trickier with the challenges the energy industry was facing, resulting in extra time pressures on our managers.
It was critical that we engaged an agency that could work efficiently and knew how to promote us to a competitive market. Having worked with Murray McIntosh for over 7 years, we knew that they had a great network and we put a project plan in place to deliver 10 roles in 10 weeks.
Following a salary benchmarking exercise, we developed a schedule for shortlisting, interviews and even 1st stage interview questions that allowed for unbiased assessment.
Candidates were screened by MM and shortlisted using recorded video interviews which really helped to reduce the impact on managers’ time.
MM understood not just role requirements but our values, including our commitment to D&I. The process was account managed, with regular updates and feedback.
We’ve successfully hired talented and enthusiastic new employees that we are confident will help us provide the best possible service to our members.
Nicola Rowland - Head of HR at Energy UK