Business Development Manager

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The Opportunity

Are you looking for a career where you can really make a difference? Come and join us as a Business Development Manager in our Power-to-X team.

The Power-to-X team is responsible for leading the commercial workstreams and managing the investment cases for our green hydrogen projects from inception up to Final Investment Decision and handover to the Construction team. EDF Group has a global ambition to be a leading producer of green hydrogen. The UK and Ireland is  a central pillar to this ambition, including our flagship project in Teesside: Tees Green Hydrogen. For EDF-R, hydrogen offers a new route to market option for our core projects, enabling us to accelerate build-out of our 10GW+ renewables portfolio in the UK and Ireland.

As our key projects are based in Teesside, Northeast England, the candidate will require relatively regular travel there.

Pay, benefits and culture 

If you’re looking to join a company where you can work hard, have fun, and help to create a Net Zero future – then you’re in the right place!’

Our passion for embracing new ideas and being open-minded to change helps us continue to grow successfully.

We’re committed to helping all of our people thrive during their time with us, recognising and rewarding every person for their hard work and commitment. 

Alongside a competitive salary, bonus, and market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits and employee discounts to help you thrive across all aspects of your life. You can spend your flexible fund on the benefits that matter to you, whether that’s an electric vehicle, private healthcare, additional holiday or one or more of our other benefits.

We’ll offer you the flexibility, freedom and responsibility to make an impact in your role; whether that’s on-site, in the office or hybrid working from home.  

We’re committed to championing diversity representation across gender, ethnicity, LGBT+, disability and more. This applies to all our roles, underpinned by our Everyone’s Welcome inclusion programme.

We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need. 

What you’ll be doing

The role is to assist delivery of the commercial, investment case and project management workstreams of hydrogen projects, from inception through to FID. Working closely with the Head of Power-to-X and wider hydrogen teams, the successful candidate will;

• Lead commercial workstreams for hydrogen development.
• Manage project internal governance processes for each project, involving relevant internal stakeholders as appropriate. This will include project reporting on progress against key milestones.
• Manage project budgets and costs, providing appropriate project management documentation.
• Instigate, progress and negotiate partnerships related to new hydrogen projects.
• Collaborate with our colleagues at EDF Energy and Hynamics to jointly optimise our overall strategy.
• Refine and implement of the UK development strategy as well as partnership, marketing, commercial and sales policies.
• Align opportunities with the UK and Irish Government’s Hydrogen Strategy in terms of project size, timing, customer mix and geographical spread.

What do you need to be great at this role?

To navigate the rapidly evolving hydrogen market, a multi-disciplinary approach is essential. Business developers need the ability to think holistically across multiple sectors – power, industry and transport – in order to develop successful hydrogen projects.

The candidate will thrive in collaborative settings, with the ability to build deep and lasting relationships, both across EDF and externally. You will be a natural business developer with  excellent commercial and strategic skills to develop projects and partnerships.

More specifically, we are looking for:

• Well-honed communication, interpersonal and relationship-building skills with experience of developing and maintaining relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders, including Government agencies and key influencers.
• Ability to operate across all levels of the organisation and externally, and will be a persuasive influencer, negotiator and decision maker who always treats others with respect and integrity, even in the face of conflict.
• Business creation spirit with the capability to combine different customer needs and market developments to create new business opportunities.
• Commercial awareness, with the ability to understand where value can be created.
• Creative thinking to drive innovative structuring solutions and scenarios through influential thought leadership.

In addition, having the following would be advantageous:

• Understanding or experience of the hydrogen industry and hydrogen policy
• Experience working with corporate offtakers, taking an empathic approach to simultaneously ensure we meet requirements of customers whilst ensuring value creation.
• Experience and understanding of asset project configuration and project development within an emerging regulatory environment.

Ultimately, to succeed you must be passionate about helping the UK achieve a Net Zero future.

Closing date for applications: 9th of February 2025
Location: Based from one of our offices with the UK (Durham, London or Edinburgh). We're proud to offer a Flexible First approach to work, meaning you can work comfortably from home with our offices as your base location.

Why EDF Renewables?

At EDF Renewables UK & Ireland we’re committed to tackling climate change. Our rapidly growing team of 500 talented people share an ambition to create a net zero future where clean, green, energy powers all our lives.

It’s a huge ambition and time is of the essence if we are to play our full part in meeting the UK and Ireland’s challenging net zero targets. With our unique mix of technologies including onshore and offshore wind, solar PV, battery storage and green hydrogen we are the UK & Ireland’s most diverse generator of renewable energy.

To achieve our goal of generating a massive 10GW of renewable energy by 2035, we’re working with stakeholders and communities throughout the UK and Ireland to unlock the enormous potential of the low carbon energy sector.

If you’re passionate about tackling climate change to create the cleaner, greener future we all want, we would love you to come join us. 

Join us, and let’s do good together.