Business Development Manager - BESS

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple development projects at once across stage gates, technologies, and geographies, including project schedules, cross-functional team coordination, follow-ups, bidding activity, and related deliverables.
• Execute and optimize development projects in coordination with management, ensuring timely decisions, stakeholder alignment, and disciplined tracking of risks, schedules, budgets, and progress against plan.
• Cook up and manage project work plans, recommending changes that may affect timing, budget, or scope within approved parameters, elevating material issues to management as appropriate.
• Communicate effectively across project stakeholders, including internal and external partners and leadership, to promote accountability, informed decision-making, and effective project execution.
• May manage an intern and/or junior development team member, including providing direction, coaching, and support on assigned work.

Qualifications

• Educational Requirements: Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in business, finance, engineering, environmental studies, energy, or a related field.
• Required Work Experience: 3–5 years of experience in the power industry with significant renewable energy project development, project finance, or asset management experience required.
• Basic Understanding: Basic understanding of the renewable energy industry, including land acquisition, interconnection processes, and permitting required.
• Technical Skills: Working knowledge of PowerPoint, spreadsheets, and databases required; experience with GIS and Enverus/Prism useful.
• Interpersonal Skills: Ability to interact with and motivate internal project teams and manage third-party contractors required.
• Project Management Skills: Demonstrated ability to manage projects across development milestones, schedules, budgets, risk mitigation, and cross-functional deliverables.
• Communication Skills: Strong project management, communication, stakeholder engagement, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Additional Requirements: Ability to manage competing priorities, make timely recommendations, and clearly communicate risks, opportunities, and issues to management; experience managing project development budgets, schedules, agreements, authorizations, reporting processes, and cross-functional deliverables preferred; people management or mentorship experience with interns, analysts, or junior development team members preferred; willingness and ability to travel as needed to support project development, community outreach, permitting, and stakeholder engagement activities.