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Northwind Renewables plc
Independent Non-Executive Director · Energy transition · 2 days ago
Location
Board size
CompensationPaid
~£75,000-£95,000 / year
Time commitment
~25 days per year, 6 scheduled board meetings
Committees
- Audit
- Risk
- ESG
Why this seat surfaced
- A recent disclosure signalled the Audit Chair will retire at the next AGM
- The nominations committee has opened an internal search
Why now
- Search is still with the nominations committee, not yet with a headhunter
- Warm introductions land best in this window
Why you fit
- Listed-company audit committee experience in the sector
- A current seat in an adjacent regulated environment
- Published work relevant to the board's stated strategic priorities
Composition gaps we found
- No sitting director with dedicated storage-strategy exposure
- Only one independent with a Big-4 audit partner background
Recent boardroom moves
- Recent chair succession
- Divested legacy assets, refocused on the transition thesis
- Refreshed the nominations committee mandate
Chair & decision-maker context
The Chair has publicly signalled a preference for deeper storage-strategy oversight on the board.
About the organisation
- Northwind Renewables plc is a FTSE 250 developer and operator of onshore wind and utility-scale battery storage across the UK and Ireland, with a market cap around £2.1bn
- The board pivoted the strategy 18 months ago from pure generation to a generation-plus-storage thesis, and the audit committee is now the busiest committee on the board as the storage build-out reshapes the risk register
About this seat
- This is a full independent non-executive seat with an expected pathway to the Audit Committee chair within 12 months, sitting alongside two other independents on Audit and one on Risk
- Success in year one means owning the storage-strategy risk narrative in the annual report and giving the CFO air cover on the FY27 covenant refresh
What you'd be responsible for
- Chair or vice-chair the Audit Committee inside 12 months
- Own storage-strategy risk oversight end-to-end
- Sign off on the FY27 covenant refresh with the CFO
- Sit on Risk and ESG, quarterly cadence
- Lead one deep-dive site visit per year in Ireland
- Meet the external auditor privately twice a year
The candidate they'll pick
- Current or recent listed-company audit committee member
- Storage or grid-adjacent operator credibility, not just finance
- Comfortable challenging the CFO in public numbers
- Track record of one full auditor-transition cycle
- Not over-boarded, headroom for 25+ days per year
Preferred expertise
Key signals to know
- Search still with the nominations committee, not headhunters yet
- Chair publicly named storage-strategy as an oversight gap
- Audit Chair retirement flagged for the next AGM
- Two independents recused from the storage vote last quarter
What to emphasise in your application
- Lead the cover letter with the storage-risk one-pager, not your CV
- Name the FY27 covenant refresh as your first-year deliverable
- Cite one specific recent disclosure to prove you've read the pack
- Reference the Chair's public remarks on oversight depth verbatim