Business Development Project Manager

JERA Nex is a company created by JERA to scale renewable energy for a sustainable future. JERA Nex combines the resilience of JERA, one of the world’s largest electricity producers, with the agility and focus of a dedicated renewables business that can act at the pace required to drive the global energy transition.

JERA Nex invests in, currently owns and operates a portfolio of renewable energy assets, with a portfolio over 3GW that includes offshore wind, onshore wind and solar, as well as battery storage. This includes Parkwind, its wholly owned subsidiary. Headquartered in London, and with centres of excellence in Belgium, Japan, Taiwan and the US, our team of more than 300 renewable and energy industry experts combines global knowhow and experience with the local expertise and knowledge necessary to deliver successful projects.

In order to support JERA’s ambition in Renewables, we manage a large number of investment opportunities, tenders, bids, M&A, greenfield developments and highly complex and capex intensive projects and joint ventures that sometimes include P2X. We also receive an even larger number of opportunities to participate in and need to carefully select those we pursue and those we do not.

The Business Development Project Manager will act as a de facto chief of staff for the VP of global onshore with respect to our global pipeline (currently circa 15 projects around >10GW in size) and must demonstrate the capacity to manage, oversee and prioritise the global onshore pipeline in a self-starting mode, which will require extensive multi-tasking and balancing competing timelines and priorities.

The role will be based in London and may require travel within JERA Nex regions including Europe, Middle East, APAC and North America, and working with our teams (and extended JERA business units) within these regions.

As a direct report to the VP for Onshore, you will be responsible for effectively and efficiently managing certain opportunities, bid and projects within the pipeline of JERA Nex to secure the achievement of the 2035 target, and to manage ongoing and subsequent investments, projects and pipeline related activities.

Job Description

You will be responsible for directly managing and supporting the bidding, partnering, M&A, and tendering processes that are of strategic interest to JERA Nex and will actively contribute to reviewing, assessing as well as sourcing or screening new business opportunities in line with JERA Nex’s corporate strategy. To grow to 20GW (net) at FID by 2035 of which two thirds is expected to be onshore renewables; onshore wind, solar PV and battery storage. It is expected that this role will be dynamic and involve a variety of activities some of which might be ad-hoc in nature. Join our dynamic team and be a part of ensuring the future of energy and the success of our organization. If you are a self-motivated business development and project management professional, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity!

What you will do

• Managing projects within the JERA Nex onshore pipeline, including origination, bidding, M&A and other ad-hoc projects such as asset transfer, platform participation and general project management.
• Coordinating with project leads and teams ensuring updates are timely, accurate and in keeping with required formats.
• Coordinating, preparing, and compiling pipeline information including budget, timeline, progress activities and risks.
• Coordinating bid requirements, collating, and compiling the required information.
• Screening of new opportunities, including screening note development and presentation, scoring of opportunities, assessing them against our investment criteria, and presenting this on a regular basis.
• Preparing the relevant internal documents for the management and/or board as required, or in other cases helping the team compile and reviewing/coordination such compilation.
• Coordinating the above activities with other regions within JERA; Japan, Middle East, US, APAC and Australia,
• Working in close collaboration with and under the oversight of the deal/transaction/bid team to ensure tender structure and terms are consistent with corporate strategy and mandate.
• Representing JERA Nex in interactions and negotiations with counterparties and at industry events with outstanding competence, professionalism, and integrity.

Who you are

• 5+ years of relevant experience in infrastructure tendering processes and/or project and pipeline management, preferably combined with a relevant experience in the onshore/renewable industry.
• Strong project/programme management skills, including strong proficiency with analysis and presentation tools; Excel, Powerpoint, Project and PowerBI.
• Ability to manage many projects including their status and workstreams simultaneously.
• Sound time management, organizational, analytical problem-solving skills.
• Strong interpersonal, relationship building and communication skills, particularly in English, written and spoken.
• Ability to analyse and synthesize, and to write in a clear and concise-style.
• Open, pro-active, with a critical mindset.
• Dynamic and rigorous, and a passion for renewables and making a difference.
• Team player, willing and ready to roll your sleeves up and work in a collaborative environment, though an environment that is still forming and evolving.

Who we are and what we offer

• Start-up and entrepreneurial environment in a company that is part of a larger, well-funded and long-term ambition to contribute to global decarbonization.
• A position in a rapidly growing company with ambitious goals, that believes in a sustainable future.
• International team that benefits from our different perspectives, backgrounds and experiences.
• We are high-performing and ambitious individuals who also enjoy our private lives. We hope you can identify with that.
• We believe in the benefit of flexible working hours and location and appreciate that we see one another in person regularly, where our locations and time zones allow.
• We are not afraid to admit that we don’t know things but also proactively look to solve problems and work collaboratively.
• We work hard but also want to have fun at the same time, we’re on an exciting journey.

Established in 2015, JERA is an equal joint venture of TEPCO Fuel & Power, Incorporated and Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc. JERA is a Japanese company with significant and global portfolio of international energy assets. It has industry leading expertise scaling the entire fuel and power supply chain, from upstream fuel investments to fuel procurement, trading and transportation, to power generation development, construction and operation. JERA’s mission is to contribute to an internationally competitive supply of power and energy and to invigorate the standard of living, industry and economy around the world. JERA Nex is a 100% owned subsidiary of JERA.