Director, Renewable Origination & Contracts

About Reactivate ☀️

Reactivate, an Invenergy company, is a mission-driven organization that develops, owns, and operates renewable energy solutions that are designed to improve quality of life for communities, with a focus on meaningful benefits for working-class people across the country. Focus areas include community solar, commercial & industrial solar, small utility-scale solar, energy storage, and EV charging projects. By delivering economic development and energy resiliency with renewable energy solutions, Reactivate provides energy cost savings, job opportunities, workforce training, and opportunities for businesses, while creating positive social and environmental impact.

Reactivate was founded by Invenergy and Lafayette Square. 

To learn more, visit us at www.reactivate.com.

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The Director, Renewable Origination & Contracts will be responsible for originating new business by assisting to develop new and existing customer relationships, communicating Reactivate’s story to key customers and stakeholders. This role will be required to have extensive experience and knowledge in distributed generation markets.

Responsibilities ⚙️

• Implement and execute strategies that result in long-term offtake and/or other successful business relationships
• Evaluate, structure and negotiate power purchase agreements
• Identify and assess potential changing market dynamics or fundamental drivers that could impact price
• Cultivate positive commercial relationships and opportunities with counterparts in resource development and wholesale energy markets, explore new markets and execute bilateral partnerships, contracts and asset transactions
• Coordinate, review and contribute to drafting transaction documents that accurately represent deal structures and negotiate documents with customers
• Engage directly with potential customers and front-line originators to gain an understanding of customer needs to propose solutions, and/or negotiate deal structures and documents that meet those needs
• Analyze and develop different structures for the customer including risk mitigation solutions to ensure effective risk management
• Supervise, guide, and negotiate contracts and related documents that will be signed between the Company and the counterparty
• Prepare presentations and internal communications for senior leadership to facilitate the internal vetting process
• Collaborate with internal departments involved in the transaction such as Pricing, Legal, Credit, Impact
• Present deals to senior leadership, seeking approval of the proposed deal structure
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned

Requirements 🎓 

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field
• Master’s degree preferred
• 5+ years of experience in the energy industry, specifically focusing on contract negotiations in distributed generation markets
• Demonstrates an excellent understanding of US power markets and an ability to assess, evaluate, and offer insights into evolving market conditions
• Possess a working knowledge of RTO operations, electric transmission and power generation and storage technologies
• Holds a solid track record of success in a development or sales capacity within the clean energy sector
• Brings an established network of commercial and industrial customer contacts
• Exhibits excellent oral and written communication skills, inclu