Senior Development Manager

Human Impact Group; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Human Impact Group is seeking a commercially focused strategist to partner with Australian data centre operators, guiding their power solutions in a rapidly evolving renewables landscape. You will lead the development and financing of BESS projects, shape data centre power strategy, and build strategic relationships to unlock joint development opportunities in Australia.

You will work with the shareholder's APAC network, apply rigorous planning, environmental studies, and approvals, and

Responsibilities

• Introduce a sophisticated reporting system for the development pipeline to enable more effective decision making on DEVEX
• Lead multiple BESS projects through early planning and permitting to secure key milestones
• Help influence and shape the strategy for data centre customers
• Develop strategic relationships with data centre operators, deeply understand their power and help originate joint development and partnership agreements

Job description

Company

A well capitalised early stage renewables independent power producer that has enjoyed significant success in a short period of time in Australia and has established an impressive leadership team.

The company is highly entrepreneurial, dynamic and has an agile approach to move quickly when they see market opportunities.

The opportunity

The parent company has a long track record of success developing and investing in data centre companies. They are now looking to create strategic partnerships with data centre operators active in Australia and help guide their power solutions.

With a depth of expertise and key relationships in the data centre ecosystem across APAC, this shareholder is highly informed and has a genuine appetite to deploy capital. This role has a unique combination of core project development and a strong commercial focus.

Position objectives

• Introduce a sophisticated reporting system for the development pipeline to enable more effective decision making on DEVEX


• Lead multiple BESS projects through early planning and permitting to secure key milestones


• Help influence and shape the strategy for data centre customers


• Develop strategic relationships with data centre operators, deeply understand their power and help originate joint development and partnership agreements

Ideal profile

You will be highly commercial with a strategic mindset and will bring innovative ideas and approaches to successfully partnering with data centre companies in Australia to support their power requirements.

Ideally you will have a demonstrable track record of maturing projects through planning, environmental studies and approvals and have a solid technical grounding in renewables and BESS. You will possess well rounded communication skills, be comfortable making decisions quickly with limited information and gain energy from knowledge sharing, brainstorming and collaborating on highly complex commercial and technical problems.

Note that you must have full working rights in Australia to be considered for this opportunity.