SR2 INDUSTRY
£120k or £240k for the same AI engineer. Who’s got it wrong?
A candidate accepts a £120,000 offer. The offer is agreed, the start date is confirmed, and the business thinks it has secured its new hire. So did we, to be...
What makes an SME credible in a public sector bid, and how consultancies find them at pace
Everyone knows the quality questions carry the score. What loses them is more specific: a named subject matter expert (SME) who reads as a generic senior consultant with the authority's...
The grid queue is gone. Now you have to prove you’re ready.
For two years a German grid connection was a queueing problem. You applied, you took your place, you waited, and the only skill that mattered was filing early. That ended...
How to deploy the right team at pace for a financial services mandate
A practical guide for consulting MDs The mandate you can win but cannot staff There is a conversation that happens in consulting leadership meetings roughly twice a quarter. A mandate...
Germany’s scarcest renewable asset isn’t a battery. It’s a signed lease.
Picture a farmer in Brandenburg with 40 hectares near a substation. In one quarter, three developers approach him. All three want roughly the same thing. All three are offering many...
You’ve just closed your funding round. Your first hire isn’t an engineer.
Raising the money used to be the hard part. It isn't any more. Capital is available for German battery storage. What's scarce is a project you can actually build. The...
How consultancies win on G-Cloud and DOS without permanent headcount in every specialism
Being on the framework was never the hard part. Winning the call-off is, and that's where the bench problem shows up in the score. Most consultancies targeting public sector work...
Guidewire, Collibra, Snowflake: why specialist technical profiles are your margin lever in insurance transformation
On a large insurance transformation programme, margin isn't won in the strategy phase. It's won (or lost) in the phases that depend on people who can actually build on the...
Bees & Bears’ Marius Schondelmaier on financing the energy transition
The clean energy conversation is almost always about technology - better panels, cheaper heat pumps, smarter storage. But the hardware has been ready for years. What's actually stalling the rollout...
“What Got Us Here Won’t Get Us There” Founder Chris Sheard appoints Nigel Ramana as CEO
In July 2026, SR2 begins a new chapter. SR2 has announced that founder Chris Sheard will step down as CEO in July 2026, handing leadership of the business to Nigel...
Kraftblock’s Martin Schichtel on the next phase of industrial decarbonisation
Industrial heat accounts for two-thirds of industrial energy demand, but gets a fraction of the attention paid to grid batteries or EVs. Martin Schichtel is CEO and co-founder of KRAFTBLOCK...
The Roles Germany’s Battery Sector Can’t Fill (And Why the Answer Isn’t a Bigger Database)
In 2025, 82% of battery industry employers in Germany reported a lack of skilled applicants. The instinct when hiring feels hard is to cast wider. More job boards. More volume....
