Site Acquisition Manager  

The position holder is responsible for managing assigned project area or items in the end-to end origination and/or project development, including identifying and closing an offtake agreement, and/or dovetailing a greenfield, brownfield, project acquisition, or land for development, to supply the offtake agreement, and collaborating with different members of the project management team in order to bring a project to construction phase, and expand the project portfolio to achieve the growth objectives of ARI.

Outcomes Expected and Responsibilities:

• Manages the identification, initial analysis/assessment of the land banking, or project opportunity for a renewable energy project.
• Implements the company's origination and/or project development growth strategy in the RE space.
• Identifies, analyzes, negotiates, and executes structured commercial transactions as part of the origination strategy/business development.
• Identifies or sources internal or external projects and negotiates and closes the transaction for external projects.
• Expands the pipeline of land possession, and project development opportunities by generating high quality leads.
• Works closely with the Renewable Sales Team, ARI PD&E, Commercial, Portfolio and other support teams to develop sales and project proposals.
• Manages and leads in the review of commercial documents such as term sheets,
  transaction, and other project documents needed for a project in collaboration with
  other teams.
• Identifies business opportunities and builds professional connection from all sources
  (public offerings, trade publications, leads from consultants and advisors,
  conferences, professional organizations) through constant networking
• Conducts data gathering activities and analyzes of industry information related to
  requirements, technology, regulatory, new policy development that will support in
  developing business strategy.
• Understands the market capacities, pricing, competition, and other market factors in the On-Grid and Off-Grid sector.
• Monitors existing and potential competitors in RE space including technology,
  partnership and service providers.
• Develops and checks CAPEX and OPEX assumptions for financial models of projects, risk analysis, and investment presentations for management approval
• Responsible for keeping updated the information deck on relevant progress, risks,
  and challenges on the projects.
• Monitors, controls, escalates and secures approval on budget spending for Project
  development.
• Identifies and manages Project resource requirements, both internal and external,
  including building up development teams.

• 5 years experience in the electric power industry/energy, preferably in the business/project development
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Economics, Management, Finance, or Marketing, or other Business-related courses

Preferred Qualifications: Previous experience in project/business development in the power industry

• Strong analytical and planning skills;
• Good communication and presentation skills;
• Excellent problem-solving skills;