Business Development Manager

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The Opportunity

Are you looking for a career where you can really make a difference? Come and join us as a Business Development Manager in our Onshore Wind Commercial & Investments Team.

We are currently recruiting for a Business Development Manager position within our Onshore Wind Commercial & Investments team, reporting into one of our experienced Principal Managers.

The Onshore Wind team is responsible for developing investment cases for projects from planning consent up to Final Investment Decision and handover to the Construction team. The focus of the team is to support our strategy for growth and our ambition to lead the way in the development of onshore wind through application of our project management framework and commercialisation of projects, leading to the achievement of investment approval.

This role will focus on delivering our significant pipeline of Welsh projects and would ideally be based in our newly opened Cardiff office, though we are flexible on location.

Location: Based from one of our offices with the UK (Durham, London or Edinburgh). We're proud to offer a Flexible First approach to work, meaning you can work comfortably from home with our offices as your base location.

Pay, benefits and culture

At EDF Renewables we're dedicated to doing good things and we take pride in tackling the world's biggest challenge - climate change. We do this by embracing new ideas to create an innovative and open-minded culture, a culture where we trust the best versions of ourselves to make good things happen.

Alongside a competitive salary, bonus, and a market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits, and employee discounts to help you thrive across all aspects of your life. You can spend your flexible fund on the benefits that matter to you, whether that's an electric vehicle, private healthcare, or additional holiday.

We'll offer you the flexibility, freedom and responsibility to make an impact in your role; whether that's on-site, in the office or hybrid working from home.

We're committed to championing diversity representation across gender, ethnicity, LGBT+, disability and more. This applies to all our roles, underpinned by our Everyone's Welcome inclusion programme.

We're a disability confident employer and we'll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need.

What you'll be doing

You'll project manage the delivery of consented onshore wind developments identifying commercial opportunities for onshore wind or (where necessary) other renewable technologies.

You will:

• Identify innovative route to market opportunities and optimise revenue opportunities.
• Manage project internal governance processes for each project, involving relevant internal stakeholders as appropriate. This will include project reporting on progress against key milestones.
• Facilitate the decision-making process during the key steps of the project: Investment case approval, pre-construction activities, start of construction, start of operations, procurement, project financing, etc.
• Manage project budgets and costs, providing appropriate project management documentation.
• Lead or support acquisition/disposal/partnership transactions including origination, due diligence, structuring, appraisal and the negotiation, review and execution of legal documentation to maximise opportunity and mitigate risks.
• Produce reports and board papers to provide business updates on project progress and other key activities.
• Communicate effectively with colleagues across all levels of the business.

What do you need to be great at this role?

As as Business Development Manager you will have a working knowledge and understanding of project life cycles and risks for long term investments. It would be advantageous if you had experience in the delivery of renewables projects, particularly onshore wind.

A technical/commercially focused degree would be beneficial or an ability to demonstrate commensurate experience.

Experience of engagement across a matrix structure (e.g., finance, technical, analysis and legal teams) is essential to the role as is building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders including co-investors and policy makers.

The successful candidate will manage multi-disciplinary subject-matter experts (e.g. engineering, procurement, legal etc) to de-risk projects and prepare them for investment decisions, secure a route to market and develop clear delivery plan prior to handover to the Construction team.

Closing date for applications: 30th of October 2024

Why EDF Renewables?

At EDF Renewables UK & Ireland we're committed to tackling climate change. Our rapidly growing team of 500 talented people share an ambition to create a net zero future where clean, green, energy powers all our lives.

It's a huge ambition and time is of the essence if we are to play our full part in meeting the UK and Ireland's challenging net zero targets. With our unique mix of technologies including onshore and offshore wind, solar PV, battery storage and green hydrogen we are the UK & Ireland's most diverse generator of renewable energy.

To achieve our goal of generating a massive 10GW of renewable energy by 2035, we're working with stakeholders and communities throughout the UK and Ireland to unlock the enormous potential of the low carbon energy sector.

If you're passionate about tackling climate change to create the cleaner, greener future we all want, we would love you to come join us.

Join us, and let's do good together.