Sr Commercial Associate

4 weeks ago

Chicago, United States Leeward Renewable Energy Full time
LRE (Leeward Renewable Energy) is a high-growth renewable energy company forging a sustainable future through integrity, innovation, and positive impact. We own and operate 30 large wind, solar, and energy storage projects across the United States, totaling over 3 gigawatts (GW) of generating capacity.

LRE has an ambitious goal of 10GW of operating assets by 2028 and are developing and contracting an increasing pipeline of new projects every year. We take a full-lifecycle approach to our projects, built on a long-term ownership model and a company culture dedicated to our community partners and protecting the environment.

The Commercial Senior Associate will support activities for commercialization of LRE's existing utility-scale wind, solar, and storage projects, and targeting new portfolio additions, pursuing differentiated asset monetization strategies, and aggregating competitive intelligence.

The Senior Associate will support the M&A and Origination teams on project acquisitions and divestiture transactions, and will have primary responsibility for supporting the Commercial team in its efforts to develop new and existing customer relationships, resulting in the construction of new clean energy projects, including through preparing responses to requests for pricing and bidding, conducting financial analysis, tracking the status of internal deliverables, and collecting and analyzing market data. The Senior Associate will assist in the preparation of materials for customer and counterparty outreach and internal management reporting and participate in such direct interactions where appropriate. The Senior Associate will contribute to the development of pricing, customer, and business strategies, and support analysis and recommendation of opportunities for strategic revenue growth.

The role would be an ideal opportunity for an individual looking to take the next step in the commercial deal space in one of the most dynamic, growth focused companies in the renewable energy industry.

Essential Functions:
  • Lead in supporting senior team in acquisition and divestiture transactions and support in core M&A process activity flow, including process letters, letter of intents, shared models, deal documentation, data room preparation, diligence logs, etc.
  • Lead the preparation and timely delivery of high quality proposals in response to RFPs from utilities and commercial and industrial customers and structuring of offers.
  • Evaluate acquisition and origination prospects and provide recommendations to management on appropriate allocation of time and resources and contribute to the development of the M&A and Origination team strategy; identify, evaluate and communicate relevant information and trade-offs to inform decision making.
  • Contribute original ideas to transactions, internal effectiveness, risk allocation, strategy, and problem-solving.
  • Maintain and continuously improve systems for tracking opportunities and internal deliverables, including performing energy market research and analysis, maintaining market intelligence and providing updates to management regarding transactions and structures being executed in the market.
  • Design and create outreach strategy for all products and technologies under development, including key customer messaging.
  • Autonomously lead day-to-day cross-functional internal diligence efforts for commercial opportunities, and coordinate with counterparties on due diligence items and transaction deliverables.
  • Run financial models independently in support of transactions, including coordinating with internal SMEs and stakeholders to quality screen inputs to financial models, interpret model results and its impact on pricing and bidding strategies.
  • Lead the preparation of materials to support management and external interactions, including RFP summaries, pricing and bid approval decks and key issues lists and present analysis at pricing approval meetings with minimal oversight.
  • Participate in customer/counterparty calls and management discussions and visits.
  • Additional duties as required.

Skills & Abilities:
  • Superior work ethic; consistent and reliable
  • Self-motivated and self-aware of personal strengths and weaknesses; proactive about finding solutions to weaknesses
  • Keen to take initiative and seeks to build cross-functionality and consensus
  • Problem-solving aptitude and completes tasks autonomously by prescribed deadlines without active day-to-day management from managers
  • Detail-oriented and organized
  • Ability to collaborate with others to achieve success and multi-task effectively
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Preferred 3-4 years experience in energy-related role as M&A/origination/sales, project development, trading, finance, strategy/consulting or similar.
  • Evidence of professional development and career progression.
  • Understanding of basic finance and project development aspects.
  • Bachelor's degree required, Masters Degree preferred.

Physical Demands
  • Position will require sitting for long periods of time.
  • Occasionally lift 20-pound or more.
  • Willingness and ability to travel at least 25% of time.

Leeward Management Services, LLC is committed to employing a diverse workforce and provides equal employment opportunity for all individuals regardless of race, color, gender, age, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a protected veteran, genetic information, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Notice to Recruiters and Staffing Agencies: Leeward Renewable Energy (LRE) does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiting vendors or employment agencies. Only recruiting vendors with a current, signed agreement in place with LRE are authorized to submit resumes for specific, requested positions. All unsolicited resumes and candidate profiles submitted to LRE, or any LRE employee, without an active agreement or written request from LRE's HR Department, will be considered property of LRE. LRE will not be responsible for any fees or expenses associated with unsolicited resumes or candidates submitted in this manner.Learn More

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