Senior Business Development Manager - CMS Enterprises

 

Position Summary

 

The Senior Business Development Manager (BDM):

 

·        Applies a sophisticated combination of technical, commercial, project and risk management knowledge to identify and complete development of utility-scale renewable energy generation facility opportunities within the continental United States to fulfill CMS Enterprise's (CMSE’s) Destination Plan.

·        Will be responsible for building and maintaining positive relationships with Commercial and Industrial/Institutional (C&I) customers and will be instrumental in successfully developing, evaluating and analyzing strategies to facilitate customer needs for renewable energy.

·        Will assemble and manage multi-disciplinary development teams of internal and external resources that will perform preliminary evaluations of developmental opportunities, conducting fatal flaw analyses, asset valuations, due diligence and negotiate contracts for acquisition of renewable energy (wind, solar or storage) assets/developments.

·        Manages and completes development activities necessary to advance partially developed renewable assets into design and construction and eventually commercial operation. 

·        Coordinates and provides support to CMSE’s Project Management Department’s management and oversight of construction and to CMSE’s Operations Department’s ongoing operations.

·        Maintains a healthy pipeline of development projects by initiating and maintaining relationships with existing partners and contacts, and also by exploring ways to improve relationships and establish new strategic partnerships.

·        Is responsible for maintaining and reporting developmental pipeline progress, timely responses to bids, responses to RFIs and RFPs, asset valuations, coordinating due diligence activities as well as researching industry-related trends and projections to support all developmental activities and other development staff.

·        Work with internal external engineering and finance teams to develop valuation models.