Commercial Agreements & Transactions Manager (Full-Time)

Heartland Joule, LLC; Deutschland; Remote; EUR 78.000 - 121.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Zusammenfassung

Heartland Joule, LLC is seeking a seasoned professional to lead transaction planning and commercial process management for complex energy projects. You will collaborate with project teams, legal counsel, utilities, and counterparties to map end-to-end roadmaps, milestones, and critical paths for agreements, securities, and collateral.

The role requires 5+ years of relevant experience, exceptional organization, strong communication, and the ability to manage multiple transactions remotely.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years of experience in commercial/industrial and/or energy infrastructure development, contract administration, transaction coordination, contract management, or legal operations.
• Exceptional organizational skills with a strong attention to detail.
• Ability to manage numerous concurrent projects without losing track of details.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills and a customer-service orientation.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office; comfortable learning new software platforms and document management systems.
• Ability to work independently in a fully remote environment.

Aufgaben

• Engage at the outset of new commercial transactions to understand strategy, objectives, stakeholders, and timelines.
• Partner with project teams, commercial leads, legal counsel, utilities, and counterparties to develop end-to-end transaction roadmaps with sequencing, milestones, approvals, and critical paths.
• Identify required commercial workstreams early and coordinate activities to keep transactions on schedule.
• Develop and maintain integrated transaction schedules capturing negotiations, milestones, collateral, payments, and closing conditions.
• Anticipate conflicts and elevate risks with mitigation strategies; provide visibility to stakeholders throughout each transaction.
• Coordinate the lifecycle of commercial agreements from drafting through execution, tracking status across counterparties and ensuring required approvals and documents.
• Maintain organized document repositories and monitor version control and distribution of revisions.
• Develop trackers for agreements, collateral, milestones, and action items; monitor deadlines and obligations.
• Provide regular status updates to leadership and clients and drive follow-ups to maintain schedules.

Kenntnisse

Organizational skills

Attention to detail

Multitasking

Written and verbal communication

Customer-service oriented

Independent work in remote environment

Tools

Microsoft Office

SharePoint

Teams

Bluebeam

monday.com

DocuSign

Adobe Sign

Jobbeschreibung

Responsibilities

Transaction Planning & Commercial Process Management

• Engage at the outset of new commercial transactions to understand the overall transaction strategy, key commercial objectives, stakeholder responsibilities, and anticipated execution timeline.
• Partner with project teams, commercial leads, legal counsel, utilities, and counterparties to develop and maintain end-to-end transaction roadmaps that clearly define the sequencing, dependencies, milestones, approvals, and critical path for agreements, securities, collateral, deposits, and other commercial deliverables.
• Identify required commercial workstreams early in the transaction lifecycle and proactively coordinate activities to keep transactions on schedule.
• Develop and maintain integrated transaction schedules that capture agreement negotiations, utility milestones, collateral requirements, payment deadlines, closing conditions, regulatory milestones, and other key commercial obligations.
• Anticipate potential schedule conflicts, bottlenecks, or interdependencies and elevate risks early with recommended mitigation strategies.
• Ensure all stakeholders have clear visibility into upcoming milestones, responsibilities, required decisions, and critical deadlines throughout the life of each transaction.

Commercial Agreement Management

• Coordinate the lifecycle of commercial agreements from initial drafting through execution. Commercial coordination activities may be associated with any or all of the following: Utility service agreements, Power purchase agreements, Interconnection agreements, Land purchase and option agreements, Easements and right-of-way agreements, Engineering and consulting agreements, Confidentiality agreements, Letters of Intent, Letters of Credit, Parent guarantees, Security deposits, Collateral requirements, Commercial closing deliverables
• Track status of agreements across multiple counterparties simultaneously.
• Coordinate document exchanges between internal teams, outside counsel, clients, utilities, and commercial counterparties.
• Ensure all required approvals, signatures, exhibits, and supporting documentation are obtained.
• Maintain organized electronic contract files and document repositories.
• Monitor version control and distribution of agreement revisions.

Process & Workflow Management

• Develop and maintain detailed trackers for agreements, collateral/securities, milestones, deliverables, and action items.
• Monitor critical dates, deadlines, notice periods, expiration dates, and commercial obligations.
• Drive follow-up with internal teams and external counterparties to maintain project schedules.
• Coordinate recurring project meetings and prepare agendas, meeting notes, and action logs, as they pertain to commercial agreement or securities work streams.
• Provide regular status updates to leadership and clients.
• Identify risks or process bottlenecks and proactively recommend mitigations or improvements.

Qualifications

Required

• 5+ years of experience in one or more of the following: Commercial/industrial and/or energy infrastructure development, Commercial contract administration, Transaction coordination, Contract management, Commercial operations, Project controls, Legal operations, Paralegal support,
• Exceptional organizational skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to manage numerous concurrent projects without losing track of details.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Professional, responsive, and customer-service oriented.
• Highly proficient with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint).
• Comfortable learning new software platforms and document management systems.
• Ability to work independently in a fully remote environment.

Preferred/Desired

• Experience supporting commercial transactions involving: Electric utilities, Energy companies, Infrastructure projects, Data centers, Commercial real state, Engineering or EPC firms, Renewable energy, Power generation, Transmission or Interconnection projects
• Experience with Bluebeam, monday.com, DocuSign or Adobe Sign, or similar programs
• Exceptionally detail oriented
• Highly organized
• Deadline driven
• Proactive and self-motivated
• Comfortable working with executives and external clients
• Skilled at following up diplomatically but persistently
• Calm under pressure
• Able to manage confidential information professionally
• Process oriented with a continuous improvement mindset
• Comfortable juggling dozens of active agreements and action items simultaneously

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off

• Location: United States (Required)