Business Development Manager at CrossBoundary Energy (CBE) Full Time

Job Title: Business Development Manager

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-Time
Department: CrossBoundary Energy
Experience Level: Manager/Supervisor

Job Description

• We are recruiting a full-time Business Development Manager.
• As a member of the CBE team, you will actively support in deploying the $100M+ fund to finance renewable energy hybrid assets for businesses throughout Africa.
• We are not a development firm and is not seeking typical development skills – CBE will look to you for practical insights on how to make discrete business decisions that will directly affect our financial outcomes.

Primary Responsibilities

• Implement strategies for identifying, tracking, and engaging potential clients and then create bespoke proposals to meet their needs
• Deeply understand clients’ business activities and business drivers to ensure proposed solutions meet their greatest needs
• Diligently track, manage, and engage numerous clients’ stakeholders across the local and regional levels, and across various functions within the client organizations including technical, procurement, financial and leadership
• Cultivate and manage a wide range of developers and technical partners to originate, develop, and close projects
• Populate and review initial drafts of a variety of financing contracts including power purchase agreements, leases, and loans
• Drive negotiations by leading on commercial aspects and coordinate input from the internal technical and legal teams
• Conduct desktop due diligence of potential projects and clients, including collecting client information and coordinating across the internal technical, environmental, legal, and regulatory teams.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Experience working in emerging markets
• 2+ years in a business-related field
• Experience working in energy.

Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will have the following skills and qualifications:

• Business-related bachelor’s degree is strongly desired
• Experience working in Africa, especially in East and West Africa
• 4+ years in a business-related field at a top tier firm
• Experience working in renewable energy.

Who You Are:

• Independent self-starter who is passionate about clean energy and its potential to transform underserved markets in Africa
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Comfort with ambiguity; ability to operate effectively in a changing, challenging context
• Strong demonstrated quantitative skills; mastery of financial and pricing models
• Strong business judgement; ability to independently conduct evaluations of a variety of businesses.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Note

• CrossBoundary is an equal opportunity employer.
• If you need assistance and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected]