Strategic Growth Leader for Infra & Projects

X-energy; Rockville (MD); On-site; USD 163,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

X Energy, LLC is seeking a Growth & Strategy Manager to support corporate and project-level strategy across the organization, reporting to senior leadership. You will translate strategy into actionable plans, coordinate with finance, engineering, and commercial teams, and develop rigorous business cases with clear execution pathways.

The role emphasizes financial modeling, scenario analyses, and mentoring junior staff, with a 5-day in-office work expectation in Gaithersburg, MD.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, Economics, Engineering, or a related field; MBA preferred.
• Typically eight to ten years of experience in corporate and project strategy, financial for infrastructure, energy, or industrial projects, management consulting, or similar business roles.
• An MBA with related experience in strategy, finance, or similar business roles, with a strong focus on business case development, and strategic planning, may be considered in lieu of some of the years of experience above.
• Experience building and owning end-to-end financial models for major infrastructure, energy, or industrial projects, and presenting them to executive leadership.
• Experience navigating both the technical and commercial sides of a project, partnering effectively with engineering, commercial, and finance teams.
• Strong PowerPoint and Excel modeling skills, with the ability to build models from scratch, create sensitivity cases, and structure models thoughtfully.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex financial information for both technical and non-technical audiences, including executive leadership.
• Demonstrated experience mentoring or providing guidance to junior team members supporting financial modeling and strategic planning.

Responsibilities

• Support, and sometimes lead, the identification and evaluation of new business capabilities and services that X-energy can monetize for customers, including in-depth market and competitive analysis.
• Partner with finance, business development, engineering, and commercial teams to identify unique capabilities and competitive advantages, and set the strategy, including monetization, go-to-market approach, and risk assessment.
• Own the development of comprehensive business cases for new business capabilities and capital projects, integrating cost estimates, schedules, phasing, escalation, financing, risk assessments, and returns from early feasibility through execution.
• Drive alignment and clarity across internal stakeholders, executives, engineers, and commercial teams by developing, presenting, defending, and explaining financial models and business cases.
• Develop and drive project-level strategies for major customer and deployment projects, including objectives, priorities, critical decisions, risks, dependencies, and execution pathways.
• Lead and support analysis of complex, cross-functional business and project challenges and develop clear recommendations for senior leadership.
• Translate strategic priorities into operating plans, decision frameworks, workstreams, and measurable actions.
• Partner with business development, project development, engineering, operations, supply chain, finance, and other teams to align strategy with execution.
• Develop, or support development of, business cases, scenario analyses, and financial analyses to inform strategic and project decisions.
• Identify key project and organizational risks, constraints, and tradeoffs and help develop mitigation strategies.
• Support the design and improvement of processes, governance, and operating models needed to execute major strategic initiatives effectively.
• Drive continuous improvement of modeling processes, tools, templates, and data architecture to improve speed, accuracy, and transparency across the organization.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to associates and analysts supporting strategic work and business case development.
• Support departmental leadership with other activities related to the financials of current projects and strategic initiatives.
• Maintain professional demeanor and behavior at all times in all forms of communication.
• Perform other duties as assigned by manager.

Skills

Financial modeling

Strategic planning

Executive communication

Mentoring

PowerPoint

Excel modeling

Cross-functional collaboration

Project strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Business/Economics

MBA

Tools

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Excel

Job description

X Energy, LLC is seeking a Growth & Strategy Manager to support corporate and project-level strategy across the organization, reporting to senior leadership. You will translate strategy into actionable plans, coordinate with finance, engineering, and commercial teams, and develop rigorous business cases with clear execution pathways.

The role emphasizes financial modeling, scenario analyses, and mentoring junior staff, with a 5-day in-office work expectation in Gaithersburg, MD.