Core Mission: As a core member of our European business development team, you willlead energy storage project development (from greenfield to Ready to Build Stage) anddrive investment/financing activities in Europe. Leverage your expertise in marketdynamics, policies, grid compliance, and financial modeling to identify opportunities,mitigate risks, and ensure ROI.Key Responsibilities:1. Monitor and analyze electricity market structures, trading, pricing mechanisms,ancillary service demands, grid reserve services and price trends; 2. Understanding the impact of regulatory requirements and various applications(trading, balancing mechanism, ancillary services and grid reserve services) oneach project business case; 3. Identify, screen, and evaluate energy storage project opportunities (greenfield,brownfield, co-location) in pre-RTB or RTB stages; 4. Developing compelling propositions and competitive bids; 5. Supporting day-to-day business case development activities of projects until theclosure of deals; 6. Build and maintain relationships with government agencies, grid operators, landowners, and consultants. Lead due diligence processes; 7. 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; 8. Establish investment/financing partnerships with banks, funds, infrastructure investors, energy firms, and power traders; 9. Supporting corporate finance team to raise debt on portfolio of projects; 10. Supporting preparing high quality internal Invest Committee papers; 11. Coordinate cross-functional collaboration between project teams and internal departments; 12. Developing sales and marketing materials, speaking at and attending conferencesas appropriate; 13. Developing strategic partnership to support scaling of the business.Requirements:1. 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 entrepreneurialenvironment2. Skills:- Mastery of financial modeling and investment analysis (ability tobuild/complex project models).- Proven track record in energy storage project development, M&A, orasset rotation.- Advance in PowerPoint- Advance Excel skills- Advantage: Python skills3. Communication: Exceptional communication skills, negotiation and stakeholdermanagement skills, capable of presenting financial models and sales pitches4. Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, or finance related fields.5. Language: Fluent in English (written/spoken); additional European languages orMandarin are a plus.6. Mobility: Ability to travel frequently between China, UK and Europeinternationally
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