Senior Origination Manager
- Posted 05 September 2018
- Salary £80k - £120k plus bonus opportunity
- LocationLondon
- Job type Permanent
- Discipline Renewable Energy & Infrastructure, Energy, ESG & Green Tech Finance
- Contact NameDominic Wall
Job description
A fantastic opportunity with a leading financier of energy efficiency and renewable energy generation assets. As one of the most innovative and widely recognised businesses in the sector across Europe, this role offers a fine opportunity for someone experienced in renewable energy purchase contracts to leverage existing contacts to maximise value creation.
The Role:
The position is responsible for initiating structured contracts involving distributed renewable generation and storage. This is a permanent senior position reporting to the Managing Director. The successful candidate will:
- Identify and develop potentially profitable opportunities within the Industrial and Commercial space and subsequently manage these relationships effectively.
- Successfully secure management approval new proposals and agreements.
- Be comfortable inter-acting and negotiating with internal and external stakeholders and other departments and regions where necessary
- Be able to specify and understand analysis provided by the colleagues so that conclusions can be drawn
- Manage stakeholders in Legal, Finance, Risk, Tax, Regulation and Business Sales to ensure deals that meet required regulation and mitigate relevant risks.
- Provide responsive solutions to our clients’ requirements.
- Be able to produce concise and persuasive reports and presentations being creative with solutions.
- Be able to articulate proposals efficiently in a manner that engages the audience
- Demonstrate outstanding organisational and interpersonal skills.
The Person:
The successful applicant will be highly experience and well connected within the energy generation sector and will have an outstanding network of contacts. It is expected that the applicant will:
- Strong academic record, with a technical degree (financial, numerical, or engineering) - preferably with a masters.
- Commercial acumen with proven experience in a similar role within the Energy industry having multiple years experience working with power purchasing agreements – ideally where solar PV has the generating technology.
- Preferably have experience in power asset operation and optimisation. Have clear understanding of this in relation to energy purchase and sales contracts in environmental products.
- Be motivated, numerate and commercially driven.
- Have experience of commercial negotiations and demonstrate strong capability
- Able to work effectively across the business unit and external stakeholders with strong communication, influencing and presentational skills
- Customer focused and action orientated to fulfil client demands.
- Process driven
- Knowledge of low carbon markets, instruments (ROC, REGO, fuel labelling), legal and regulatory requirements, products, pricing and competition.
- Time management skills.
- Understand energy trading
- Understanding of the commercial benefits of sustainability, environmental care and energy efficiency.