Sr. Manager, Growth Strategy

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AES Clean Energy (AES CE) is seeking a Senior Manager, Growth Strategy to lead AES’s cross-functional growth planning and project origination within the SPP, MISO and ERCOT.  Operating at the intersection of market strategy, business development, and execution, this role is accountable for shaping and advancing the company’s development pipeline across targeted markets and technologies.  

This position offers a unique opportunity to combine deep market expertise with cross-functional leadership, connecting strategic vision with the analytical rigor needed to drive real development outcomes and unlock differentiated solutions. At its core, this role is about defining where to compete and how to win, and ensuring those choices are translated into action across the organization. 

The Senior Manager fosters close collaboration with leadership across Development, Origination, External Affairs, and Execution teams to generate new opportunities, inform key development decisions, and lead high-impact strategic initiatives aligned with regional Growth Plans. 

The ideal candidate is highly motivated, entrepreneurial, and strategic - someone who takes extreme ownership, thrives in ambiguity, and brings both a systems-level perspective and a strong analytical foundation to every challenge. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Generate and advance new project opportunities across solar, storage, and powered land by identifying high-value greenfield sites and creative development plays to build a competitively advantaged pipeline; drive cross-functional diligence (land, transmission, interconnection, permitting and offtake) and present go/no-go recommendations to senior leadership  

• Lead high-priority strategic initiatives and analyses, applying structured problem-solving to ambiguous challenges to develop market insights and recommend actions that drive business outcomes 

• Develop executive-level materials and