Senior Associate - Energy Transition

CARBON TRUST SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

The Carbon Trust is seeking a proactive professional to support growth in SE Asia, delivering high-impact energy transition advisory services for clients in the low carbon sector. The role focuses on developing new business, managing client relationships and delivering projects with strong commercial acumen from inception to completion.

You will combine energy market knowledge with robust consultancy skills, to drive bids, proposals and stakeholder engagement across Southeast Asia while

Qualifications

• Experience in business development, including proactive and tender processes.
• Experience in one or more markets in SE Asia.
• Experience in energy transition activities, ideally with time in energy supply, network, research/innovation, academia, or consulting.
• Knowledge of energy flexibility, policy, regulation and storage.
• System modelling/whole system analysis is desirable.
• Designing or delivering innovation projects/programmes is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Drive business development including proactive sales, tenders, bids and proposals.
• Develop and strengthen relationships with key clients in the low carbon energy sector and attend external meetings.
• Support and manage client projects from inception through to completion, including leading problem-solving and QA of deliverables.
• Manage project budgets and finances and liaise with client contacts on day-to-day matters.

Skills

Business development

Stakeholder management

Project management

Energy market knowledge

Strategic thinking

MS Excel

MS PowerPoint

Client relationship building

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

MS Word

MS Excel

MS PowerPoint

Job description

About Us

The Carbon Trust is an independent, expert partner of leading organisations around the world. We advise businesses, governments, development banks, the public sector and philanthropy on their opportunities in a sustainable low carbon world. This opportunity is for someone who wants to make a difference, to drive towards a decarbonised future.

Purpose and scope of the role:

The Energy Transition team’s purpose is to enable the development of an affordable, secure consumer centric, flexible and decarbonised global energy system. The team do this through taking a whole system thinking approach underpinned by innovation, impartiality, and robust evidence generation. We are focused on three key topics within the Energy Transition agenda: coal transition, grid development and renewable integration.

The successful candidate will support our growth through developing new business and delivering energy transition projects that will deliver high quality and high impact advice to our SE Asia clients.

The ideal candidate is a passionate and motivated individual with energy market experience and strong business development and consulting skills. You will have a grasp of various electricity policies, market arrangements and regulatory frameworks and how these may evolve in the Southeast Asian region.

Main duties and responsibilities:

• drive business development including proactive sales and responding to competitive tenders, writing bids and proposals
• develop and strengthen relationships with key clients in the low carbon energy sector, attend conferences, external meetings and develop relationships with key stakeholders
• Support and manage client projects of varying complexity, from inception through to completion, including:

• oleading the problem-solving effort
• omanaging analysis, research and quality assurance
• oWorking aspart of project teams and QA of sub-contractors
• oliaising with client contacts on day-to-day project matters
• omanaging project budgets and finances

You know you are successful in this job when you:

• maintain and grow a network of stakeholders, clients and partners across the low carbon energy sector
• help the SE Asia meet its targets for revenue and business development activity in the Energy Transition sector by meeting your own targets
• deliver your projects and programmes on time, to budget and resulting in decarbonisation impact in line with the Carbon Trust’s mission
• get good feedback from clients, leading to greater and more favourable Carbon Trust brand recognition, particularly in its target client markets.

You have/are:

• strong business development skills and ability to build client and partner relationships and influence stakeholders in a technically complex sector
• an ability to work effectively in a complex team environment and to take initiative and deliver projects independently when required
• organised and efficient, with excellent project management and project delivery skills
• ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines proficiency with MS Excel, MS Word and MS PowerPoint
• fluent English speaker

Ideally, you also have

• a proven ability in developing successful bids in the low carbon energy sector across a range of private and/or public sector clients in Southeast Asia

• a proven ability in delivering high-quality consulting projects in the low carbon energy sector
• excellent communication skills (written and oral), with the ability to lead and run workshop sessions, present to small and large audiences and write high quality reports.
• excellent strategic problem-solving skills and solution development

Qualifications and experience (required/desired):

• degree educated (or equivalent)
• experience of business development, including proactive and responding to formal tender processes in the low carbon energy sector
• experience of one or more markets in SE Asia
• experience of working on energy transition related activities, ideally with much of this time based in an energy supply, energy network, research/innovation body, academia, or consulting organisation
• knowledge of topics such as energy flexibility, energy policy, energy regulation, network innovation and energy storage
• experience in system modelling/whole system analysis is desirable
• experience of designing or delivering innovation projects and programmes is desirable

Base Office

Singapore, with likelihood of some travel to other parts of Asia