Position: Business Development Manager - Distributed Energy
Location: Flexible, UK
Salary: £44,100 - £61, 000 basic + performance based bonus and share options
Hours: Flexible

The Company:

This exciting role is a genuine opportunity to position our client as a provider of choice to address carbon reduction and energy sustainability targets in the local authority and university markets. Our client finance, own, operate and maintain energy infrastructure for commercial, industrial and residential customers - providing them with a market leading project development service and certainty of operational performance and asset management.

Job Description:

The Business Development Manager will be a key role employed to drive forward our clients business relationships and solutions in the private network, heat and/or local energy systems. Responsibilities include:

* A good working knowledge of at least one of these markets, the main competitors and the potential partners that operate within it, as well as be connected and networked with prime customers.

* Identifying opportunities, managing client and wider stakeholder relationships and closing deals, supporting bid and development teams to secure contracts and partnerships with targeted organisations.

* Delivering against an annual target based on project progression and contract value will be a key measure of success as will our relationships and the insight developed with the markets.

* To be flexible to cover the UK and will hold responsibility for generating a robust pipeline and executing sales.

Preferred Skills, Experience & Qualifications:

* A proven track record in the energy sector and recent experience of operating in at least one of the defined markets - with evidence of building and closing a robust pipeline in this market.

* Ideally experience securing business within either solar, private network, heat and/or local energy systems into the local authority or universities markets.

* Be an expert at creating and driving client engagement plans and influencing at a senior level towards a desired outcome.

* A highly experienced networker and relationship manager - connected and able to build and manage diverse relationships with a wide group of stakeholders from C-suite (top management positions) and through the organisation.

* Politically aware and can demonstrate influencing a stakeholder group including elected members and officials and being an active voice in associated organisations and industry groups e.g. AUDE

Benefits:

* Car allowance

* Pension

* Share options

* Discounted medical cover, childcare vouchers, Gym Flex and cycle to work schemes

* Deals with a range of major retailers for food, clothes, furniture, holidays and more

* Development programmes and e-learning so you have all the tools to progress your career as far as you would like

Position: Business Development Manager - Distributed Energy
Location: Flexible, UK
Salary: £44,100 - £61, 000 basic + performance based bonus and share options
Hours: Flexible