Associate Director

Chronos Energy are currently looking to recruit an Associate Director with team management experience for our client, a commercial advisory in the renewable energy sector.

This role will report to Head of Commercial Advisory, who leads on our energy transition investment mandates, advising the public and private sector on all the commercial (including contractual, financial and policy-related) aspects of decentralised energy sectors like Heat Networks, CHP, EfW, and Smart (Integrated) Local Energy Systems. The role will be varied and expected to originate and develop opportunities for the company to provide its comprehensive advisory function to its existing clients, and the wider market to commercialise new offerings.

Role responsibilities

Managing several complex client engagements or components independently – Managing commercial aspects of an individual engagement to achieve desired levels of quality and profitability.

Executing projects and maintaining a review process to ensure projects are completed to a level that meets the high-quality standards.

Business development to grow new sectors, clients and markets.

Providing commercial/technical knowledge on projects specifics to junior staff and feeding back any perceived knowledge gaps to senior management to deal with.

Progressing to specialise and contribute to a practice area – developing and maintaining industry knowledge and demonstrating sound knowledge of economic, political and market trends. Ensuring relevant project team members are accurately charging time to proposal / engagement codes as part of assessing profitability of individual projects.

Contributing towards creating innovative and repeatable solutions which strengthen business performance.

Experience

Experienced in Decentralised and Renewable Energy/DHN/ESCO commercial development

Private and Public sector experience desirable

Significant transaction and counterparty/stakeholder negotiation experience

Line management experience for high performance environment

Qualifications required:

Exceptional BD and client relationship management, and able to support the strategic/growth business planning of the commercial advisory practice

Strong Project (and resource) and bid Management for tenders (potentially Project Directing) Working in a commercial/investment or advisory/consulting role in infrastructure services for major projects, in a financial/commercial focussed environment.

Experience in delivery of large-scale infrastructure projects, preferably the low carbon energy sector, including the commercial development and financing of assets.

Experience of project management, business case development, report writing, due diligence, risk and opportunity analysis.

Client-facing experience in providing technical knowledge and expertise to maximise the value of the project for stakeholders.

Degree in business administration or relevant field such as economics, law, finance, sciences, engineering. MBA/MSc/MA desirable ACA/CIMA/CFA/IACCM/CMI/MEI or equivalent membership (optional)