Head of Business Development Wind, Europe

Job Title: Head of Wind Development, Europe

Department: Development EMEA

Reporting to: Portfolio Management Director, Europe

Role location: London, Madrid or Lisbon

About Lightsource bp

We are Lightsource bp – and we’re on a mission to become a global leader in onshore renewables, anchored by our proven track record in solar development.

For over a decade we’ve been actively working to diversify the way our world is powered with sustainable and responsible renewable power. We work to safely deliver affordable, reliable, large-scale onshore renewable and energy storage solutions to help the world decarbonise.

Our growing business is constantly innovating and investing to help drive the energy transition. Our people and projects are focused on supporting long-term sustainable growth and energy security.

Lightsource bp was fully acquired by bp in 2024.

What You’ll do (the role)         

This role will play a key role in implementing the regional market strategy, identifying market opportunities and creative business models for onshore wind. Collaborating with the regional and country development organization in support of commercial goals and objectives including pipeline development, partnerships and key stakeholder management.

• Identifying and developing with Country Heads market opportunities for onshore wind hybridized with solar in a first stage as well as standalone in the medium term
• Identify market-level bottlenecks and collaborate with regional leadership to solve
• Provide input into opportunity prioritization, short, medium and long-term value optimization
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and lessons learnt between various countries
• Liaise with structured finance and power markets to project generate value optimization.
• Develop and implement with the wider teams a development strategy for onshore wind.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, such as technical wind, finance, engineering and construction across the broader organization to manage opportunities strategically
• Ability to lead on the relevant inputs for a techno-economical hybrid and standalone model to identify the optimal business case.

Who we’re looking for              

Knowledge & Experience

• Comprehensive knowledge of wind, including techno-economic project structuring, is a must along with wind experience and a working knowledge of renewables projects
• Successful track record of executing complex energy projects and/or transactions.
• Strong project and process management skills with experience managing multiple teams on simultaneous projects.
• Good interpersonal, leadership and collaboration skills.
• Relevant experience of industry Business Development, with strong external and executive level engagement/stakeholder management.

Why you’ll make a great member of the team           

Personal qualities

• Degree level education in relevant subject for example business, environmental or financial.
• Strong project and process management skills with experience collaborating with multiple teams on simultaneous projects.
• Highly effective verbal and written communications skills both within and outside of the company
• Highly self-motivated and organized individual with ability to work to transaction deadlines

Why you’ll want to work for us

Our company is a place where you can be yourself and grow; a place where your ideas and opinions matter.

Be you

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive community, where every individual is valued and treated with respect.

Be responsible

Our culture is driven by our core values. From operating safely to ensuring our solar projects are responsible and promote biodiversity. 

Be recognized

Alongside a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits including annual bonus, retention bank, health insurance, pension and other local benefits.

Be inspired

Beyond your day-to-day working life at Lightsource bp, there’s a variety of initiatives that will contribute to your own personal development. Initiatives to get involved with including our charitable causes, supporting our solar honey project or our sustainability initiatives.

Our Core Values

Lightsource bp truly cares about creating a sustainable future through safe, responsible and meaningful low carbon energy projects. Our core values of Safety, Integrity, Respect, Sustainability and Drive are the guiding principles for everything we do. 

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