Senior Renewables Business Development Manager

Caudal Energy; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

25 days leave + bank holidays

Hybrid working

Job summary

Caudal Energy is seeking an experienced Business Developer to accelerate growth in tidal energy markets. You will assess markets, identify opportunities, build a healthy project pipeline, and strengthen relationships with customers, partners and stakeholders.

The role requires entrepreneurial mindset, strong commercial and negotiation skills, and the ability to navigate technical, legal, and financial aspects across multiple projects. Hybrid working and pension are available.

Qualifications

• Renewables business development experience
• Entrepreneurial approach to identifying opportunities
• Commercial and strategic thinking
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills
• Financial and investment analysis
• Project-development understanding
• Stakeholder and relationship management
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Understanding of contracts and commercial structures
• Ability to work across technical, legal, finance, and delivery functions

Responsibilities

• Market assessment and development: Identify and develop tidal energy markets, customers, and opportunities; monitor markets, policy, subsidies, costs, competitors, and opportunities.
• Project Origination: Identify opportunities for tidal stream projects; assess seabed, resource, grid proximity, planning constraints, environmental considerations; build pipeline.
• Commercial and stakeholder management: Identify developers/investors/utilities/partners; secure LOIs; develop business cases and proposals; support deals to milestones to close.
• Project development coordination: Bring together engineering, marine operations, environment, finance, procurement and customer teams; manage risks and regulatory interfaces for on-time delivery.

Skills

Renewables business development

Opportunity origination

Commercial strategy

Negotiation

Financial analysis

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Contract understanding

Presentation skills

Job description

About Us

We, atCaudal Energy,have the ambition to harness the power of our oceans and turn our pioneering tidal stream technology into a scalable source ofpredictable and affordable energy. Backed by leading investors and Innovate UK, we are now moving from prototype development towards commercialising our proprietary equipment at scale. Developing projects that demonstrate our technology in real-world applications is fundamental to building the evidence, customer relationships and commercial pipeline that will enable this growth.

About the Role

We are looking for anexperienced, energetic and commercially driven Business Developerto help accelerate our growth. You will play a key role in assessing markets, developing new opportunities, building our project pipeline and strengthening relationships with customers, partners and other key stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Market assessment and development:

• Identify and develop tidal energymarkets, customers, and commercialopportunities, creating tools and assets to support engagement.
• Monitor electricity markets, policy, regulation, subsidies/support mechanisms, technology costs, competitors, and emerging opportunities.

Project Origination:

• Identify and develop specific opportunities for tidal stream projects. Find suitable sites and assess seabed availability, tidal resource, grid proximity,planning constraints, environmentalconsiderations, and development potential.
• Understand planning, permitting & grid strategy, and marine operations opportunities and constraints to incorporate into these opportunities.
• Build, qualify, prioritise, and maintaina pipeline of prospective projects fromearly-stage opportunitythrough investment/financial close.

Commercial and stakeholder management:

• Identify potential developers, investors, utilities, technology providers, site-owners, and other partnersfor strategic collaboration. Secure LOIs in support of future investment raises.
• Business case development & Deal execution: Prepare opportunity assessments, deal economics and business case proposals; then support projects through key milestones to financial close.
• Lead or support negotiations involving site agreements, development rights, partnerships, offtake arrangements, joint ventures, andother commercial contracts.
• Build and maintain long-term relationships with strategic customers, partners, site owners , local communities, government bodies and otherstakeholders.

Project development coordination

• For live projects, bring together engineering, marine operations, environmental, finance, procurement and customer to progress projects.
• Identify commercial,technical, regulatory, planning, grid, land, andstakeholder risks anddevelop mitigation strategies.
• Manage regulatory interfaces to ensure on time delivery.

Essential skill and Experience

• Renewables business development experience – evidence of origination and progressing projects through the development funnel.
• Entrepreneurial approachto identifying opportunities
• Commercialand strategic thinking
• Strong negotiation andinfluencing skills
• Financial and investmentanalysis
• Project-development understanding
• Stakeholder and relationshipmanagement
• Strong communication andpresentation skills
• Understandingof contracts andcommercial structures
• Ability to work across technical, legal, finance, anddelivery functions

Desirable

• Marine energy sector experience
• Renewable project execution post financial close
• Planning/grid/regulatoryawareness

Hybrid working

Pension

25 days leave +bank holidays