Director of Asset Management- USA

You will be responsible for the strategic and operational decisions on a portfolio of assets under your management, focusing on delivering strong financial performance, commercial management, and operational performance; all the while ensuring strong relationships with our key stakeholders.

This position will report directly to the Head of Asset Management.

Role

Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Driving a high-performance culture on the projects, in partnership with internal and external key stakeholders to maximize the value of the assets.
• Functional and/or line management of an interdisciplinary team of technical and commercial experts and coordination with the wider support departments to ensure the highest standard of delivery against commitments and obligation towards stakeholders.
• Commercial performance management of supply contracts, maintaining relationships and strong performance of key partners such as lenders, off-takers, service providers, authorities, local civil groups, and landowners.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and project agreements, supported by internal commercial and compliance specialists.
• Financial oversight, in partnership with the finance management team, of the portfolio of projects providing budgeting, forecasting, and analysis to drive long-term profitability.
• P&L responsibility for the portfolio of assets under management and opportunity to define the internal strategic direction.
• Reporting and regular reviews towards key stakeholders on portfolio and project targets, ensuring timely and accurate reporting of financial, commercial, safety and contractual obligations and performance.
• Continuous identification and implementation of optimization and excellence initiatives to drive lower LCOE and improve performance of the portfolio.

Requirements

• You have profound experience working with operations asset management within the energy sector. Ideally, you have been working with several onshore wind projects already.
• You are proactive, adaptive and a ‘can-do’ person combined with a structured and result-driven approach to problem solving. You have a technical, engineering or financial background with natural flair for commercial topics. Ideally, a successful candidate would have the following attributes:
• Bachelor’s or masters degree within a relevant field (e.g., Finance, Engineering, Economics, or related subject).
• 5+ years’ experience in the operations and asset management of similar renewable operational infrastructure assets.
• Flexible, dynamic, and agile work style allowing fast learning and the ability to synthesize complex problems quickly.
• Experience in financial, commercial, and contractual management on similar type and scale of projects Strong stakeholder management and relationship skills with experience in building strategic relationships with internal and external project partners and stakeholders.