Senior Business Development Manager

<h3>Company Description</h3><p>Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 20 000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We now want to make fossil-free living possible within one generation. To be able to reach this ambitious goal we are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission.</p><p>The Business Area Wind is responsible for Vattenfall’s onshore and offshore wind development, construction and operation as well as solarPV, battery and hydrogen business. Our offshore business is amongst the top three players in our North-Western European core markets, and we are currently constructing the world’s first subsidy free offshore site. Our offshore portfolio consists of 4.1 GW installed capacity and 344 MW under construction. It is our clear ambition to continue and even accelerate our strong growth in the future and help Vattenfall succeed in its mission fossil freedom</p><h3>Job Description</h3><p><strong>Do you want to shape the future?</strong></p><p> </p><p>In the Business Unit Offshore Wind within the Business Area Wind, we are looking to recruit a <strong>Senior</strong> <strong>Business Developer Offshore. </strong>You will play an important role in paving the way for Vattenfall, its customers and partners towards fossil freedom!</p><p> </p><p><strong>What will you do? </strong></p><p>You will report to the Head of Pipeline Development who holds the responsibility for the development of the early offshore project pipeline. As a <strong>Senior Business Developer Offshore</strong> you will lead the development and implementation of the Offshore Strategy, including the identification, evaluation and selection of offshore bid, development and acquisition opportunities. You will also lead project acquisition processes and proactively drive regulatory topics with internal and external stakeholders.</p><p>In the successful execution of these tasks, you will often lead multi-disciplinary teams of internal and external colleagues from different domains (e. g. Bids, Bid Strategy, Technical, Permit, Public and Regulatory Affairs,  Valuation, Transactions, Risk, Strategy) across nine North-Western European offshore markets. You will proactively liase with top management regarding key decisions.</p><p> </p><p><strong>In Pipeline Development, we strive to hire a collaborative generalists who work on three focus areas: </strong></p><p>Focus area one: Offshore Strategy</p><ul><li>Lead teams of Strategy advisors and analysts to formulate and implement the offshore wind strategy, especially drive the market focus and project selection to arrive at our targeted project portfolio</li><li>Lead the identification and communication of resource needs and key success factors that are required to win competitive tenders and/or to develop projects successfully</li><li>Align with internal stakeholders regarding the implementation of the strategy, i. e. the adjustment of resources and the development of new capabilities</li></ul><p>Focus area two: Acquisitions and project development</p><ul><li>Pursue project acquisition opportunities in close collaboration with the Transaction Management and M&amp;A teams</li><li>Lead the commercial and technical due diligence during project acquisition processes, which involves leading teams of engineers and analysts in order to derive project valuations</li><li>Represent Offshore Development in the contract design and negotiation, e. g. ensuring that roles and responsibilities are distributed according to our interests</li><li>Prepare the offshore development organization for the onboarding of new projects</li><li>Take the project manager role in early project development works for new bid opportunities.</li></ul><p>Focus area three: Market Development</p><ul><li>Monitor regulatory changes and derive implications for our business</li><li>Lead the development of business strategies for selected regulatory challenges across our core markets</li><li>Align the business strategy and respective positioning with relevant stakeholders in the Vattenfall Group</li><li>Ensure the external representation and communication of our business strategies together with the Public and Regulatory Affairs teams</li><li>Represent our interests towards a wide range of national and EU stakeholders, including branch organizations, regulators, grid operators and competitors</li></ul><p>And also…</p><ul><li>…drive the standardization of our ways of working within the Pipeline Development team and also at the interface to other teams</li><li>Build a strong network of contacts throughout the whole Vattenfall organization</li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><p><strong>We are looking for a c</strong><strong>ommercially driven, strategic thinker who