Development & Investment Manager

Job description

Core Mission

As a core member of our European business development team, you will lead energy storage project development (from greenfield to Ready to Build Stage) and drive investment/financing activities in Europe. Leverage your expertise in market dynamics, policies, grid compliance, and financial modeling to identify opportunities, mitigate risks, and ensure ROI.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor and analyze electricity market structures, trading, pricing mechanisms, ancillary service demands, grid reserve services and price trends.
• Understanding the impact of regulatory requirements and various applications (trading, balancing mechanism, ancillary services and grid reserve services) on each project business case
• Identify, screen, and evaluate energy storage project opportunities (greenfield, brownfield, co-location) in pre-RTB or RTB stages.
• Developing compelling propositions and competitive bids
• Supporting day-to-day business case development activities of projects until the closure of deals
• Build and maintain relationships with government agencies, grid operators, landowners, and consultants. Lead due diligence processes.
• Develop, build, review, and optimize financial models (LCOE, NPV, IRR) for projects, including sensitivity analysis and risk assessment with the support of supply chain, finance and technical team
• Establish investment/financing partnerships with banks, funds, infrastructure investors, energy firms, and power traders
• Supporting corporate finance team to raise debt on portfolio of projects
• Supporting preparing high quality internal Invest Committee papers
• Coordinate cross-functional collaboration between project teams and internal departments
• Developing sales and marketing materials, speaking at and attending conferences as appropriate
• Developing strategic partnership to support scaling of the business Requirements:

Essential competencies

• Minimum 8 years in commercial/business development in energy sector (B2B) preferably in energy storage or renewable sectors.
• Strong commercial skills with legal contracts and project financing
• Strong organization skills, team and good attention to detail
• Experience in energy storage and renewable sectors
• Knowledge of the UK, Europe, Australia and Asia-Pacific energy landscape
• Desire to work in a fast moving, high pressure and entrepreneurial environment

Skills

• Mastery of financial modeling and investment analysis (ability to build/complex project models).
• Proven track record in energy storage project development, M&A, or asset rotation.
• Advance in PowerPoint
• Advance Excel skills

Advantage

• Python skills

Communication

• Exceptional communication skills, negotiation and stakeholder management skills, capable of presenting financial models and sales pitches

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, or finance related fields.

Language

• Fluent in English (written/spoken); additional European languages or Mandarin are a plus.

Mobility

• Ability to travel frequently between China, UK and Europe internationally