Energy Development Director

4 days ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Eku Energy Full time

As a key member of Eku Energy's senior management team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the company's renewable energy strategy across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

About the Role

This is an exceptional opportunity for a seasoned professional with a strong track record in project development to join our team as an Energy Development Director. You will be responsible for leading the origination and development of Eku's energy storage assets across EMEA from inception through financial close.

You will determine our approach to development in EMEA, lead new market entry activities, and create a risk-managed pipeline of projects by utilizing multiple origination strategies (green field, acquisitions, partnerships). You will champion projects internally and work with cross-functional teams to ensure that projects have appropriate commercialization pathways and are progressing towards an investable business case.

As part of your remit, you will manage our existing development team, build out our development capability, and ensure the efficient allocation of resources with the right competence to projects, ensuring effective progress of projects towards and through to financial investment decision.

The role offers a unique combination of strategic leadership, operational expertise, and technical knowledge, requiring a strong understanding of key development risks and the ability to exercise judgement to inform how to prioritize resourcing and development capital across the portfolio.

Main Responsibilities
  • Manage and lead the EMEA development function and ensure integration of the team across the business.
  • Development of the project-related elements of our European country-level business plans.
  • Be accountable for preparation and approval of all project development plans, schedules, and budgets.
  • Analysis and origination of project leads, ensuring high-quality projects on attractive commercial terms are continually added to our target market pipelines in accordance with regional pipeline strategy and targets.
  • Providing leadership and strategic direction to development managers, ensuring our pipeline of projects are developed efficiently to ensure development capital invested maximizes value for our shareholders.
  • Responsible for ensuring the trading and investment management teams are aligned on the development strategy for each project, which includes a clear pathway to commercialization with an investable business case.
  • Responsible for ensuring all projects are appropriately resourced, including coordinating support and resource allocation from all departments, and that key development decisions are made in coordination with appropriate business functions.
  • Act as sponsor for the business case of projects as they progress through development and ultimately towards FID in collaboration with the investment management team.
  • Ensure timely and cost-effective development of the portfolio of projects in accordance with safety, technical, environmental, community, and operational requirements.
  • Drive the continuous improvement of project development, tools, and templates, and the team's project management and delivery capabilities.
Requirements
  • A minimum of ten years' relevant experience working on the development of energy and infrastructure projects, preferably in the renewables sector.
  • Extensive experience as a project developer with a demonstrated track record of successful project management of all land, environmental, permitting, stakeholder management, initial engineering, and grid connection activities of renewable projects up to the point of financial close.
  • Strong commercial acumen with a track record of negotiating and executing a wide variety of project development-related contracts.
  • A strong understanding of key development risks and the ability to exercise judgment to inform how to prioritize resourcing and development capital across the portfolio.
  • Effective stakeholder engagement, strong commercial acumen, and presentation skills to present with respect and authority as the local lead and representative.
  • As an experienced manager, you will be expected to lead and coach your team members to enhance their capability and career progression.
  • A working knowledge of local laws & regulations, development procedures, and market practices.
  • An excellent academic record and a bachelor's degree in a related field such as engineering, finance, law, science, or a project management-related qualification.
  • Implementation: self-management - result and solution-oriented - quality awareness - welfare, health, safety, and environmentally focused.
  • Culture: helps to build a foundation of trust – creates stability – instills kindness – provides structure – is and fosters accountability – cultivates a spirit of reliability – fosters respect.
Salary and Benefits

We offer a competitive salary range of £120,000 - £180,000 per annum, depending on experience, plus a bonus scheme based on individual and company performance targets. In addition, we offer 20 days of annual leave plus 5 additional discretionary days, flexible working arrangements, and a short-term incentive bonus.

We are committed to creating a positive work environment that values diversity, equity, and inclusion. As an inclusive employer, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marriage, civil partnership, pregnancy, maternity, race (including colour and ethnic or national origins), religion or belief.

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