Great opportunity to collaborate with the acquisition of projects pipelines from third party developers and manage and supervise the development of such projects through to Financial Close

The Opportunity:

• Identify, pursue and develop new business opportunities together with third parties (developers)
• Prepare financial model to assess the returns of the project and draft non-binding offers
• Coordinate the Legal and Technical Due Diligence process with the support of the internal teams and external advisors
• Manage and supervise the progress of development of projects being carried out by third party developers
• Work with Legal Team and advisors to review and finalise the relevant project contracts: NDA, Exclusivities, Co-development Agreements, Lease, SPA
• Maintain and develop strong working relationships with third party developers
• Provide timely market intelligence (projects, trends, competitors’ activities, prices) and use of internal CRM tools to keep information up to date

The Individual:

• Essential to have prior experience in business development the solar PV industry in Italy, coming ideally from an engineering firm or a project developer
• Hands on experience in developing pv projects in Italy: grid applications, and identification and negotiations, environmental permitting, administrative authorisations, etc.
• Solid understanding of environmental constraints and legal documentation review and negotiations
• User level experience with financial models to assess project returns and evaluate impact of different assumptions
• Familiarity with project financing processes
• Fluent in Italian and English
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in business development in the Solar Industry in Italy is required