Sector expertise · Battery storage

Battery Energy Storage executive search.

BESS leadership requires commercial, technical and investment fluency across development, construction and operations.

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The leadership challenge

Finding leaders who can deliver.

Battery storage has moved from niche to the backbone of a flexible grid. The leaders who succeed connect revenue strategy, grid realities, financing and delivery, often while a business is scaling at speed.

McBarron Wood International works on fully retained Director-level and executive mandates, building a tailored search around your commercial objectives and the leadership capabilities needed to achieve them.

What boards are asking leaders to solve

Moving from a development pipeline to operational, revenue-generating assets
Building revenue stacks across trading, ancillary services and contracted income
Securing grid connections, EPC partners and supply chain at scale
Standing up asset management and optimisation capability

Typical mandatesCommercial. Financial. Operational. Strategic.

We recruit the senior leaders who shape battery storage businesses.

Roles we recruit

Chief Executive Officer
Managing Director
Chief Financial Officer
Commercial Director
Head of Trading & Optimisation
Development Director
Construction Director
Asset Management Director

Search approach

From market mapping to appointment.

A focused, confidential retained process, informed by the market in which your business competes.

Discovery & mandate
We get to the heart of the strategy, ownership, the outcomes the role must deliver and the leadership qualities it needs.
Market intelligence
We map the relevant talent landscape and identify where proven leadership sits, including people who are not looking.
Confidential engagement
We approach executives discreetly, with a clear and compelling proposition.

See the full six-stage process

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