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Director Procurement and Origination
WKN USA, LLC

Posted on August 22, 2010

The successful candidate will lead the selling of renewable energy products and services to wholesale customers from wind and solar projects across North America.

Company Name: WKN USA, LLC
Position Type: Full-Time
Position Title: To be Determined

Description

The successful candidate will lead the selling of renewable energy products and services to wholesale customers from wind and solar projects across North America.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and lead sales activities, with senior management to enter into long term supply agreements with utilities, municipalities, and other customers from new and existing wind and solar energy facilities.
• Work closely with Senior Management on financial models to determine feasibility of wind and solar energy projects.
• Identify new sales opportunities and coordinate with development and acquisition groups to identify new renewable energy facility opportunities.
• Lead RFP bid response and bi-lateral negotiation efforts.
• Negotiate long-term power purchase agreements, build-transfer, and/or renewable energy credit transactions.
• Establish and maintain customer, and key individual, relationships.
• Support development and acquisition activities in analyzing investment opportunities.
• Interact with internal colleagues and external consultants to develop the necessary assumptions to value investments and analyze potential risk factors.
• Help develop energy and environmental attribute pricing structures and risk analysis.
• Work with internal colleagues and consultants to evaluate and/or develop long term forward electricity, natural gas and environmental attributes price models.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• 5+ years experience in energy sales and marketing activities.
• Knowledge of renewable energy markets in North America.
• Proven experience in negotiations, problem solving, analytical skills, managing commodity risk issues.
• Track record of successfully closing complex transactions.
• Strong understanding of the various energy market rules, state RPS and REC trading markets across the US.
• Ability to comprehend and analyze technical information.
• Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication and organizational skills.
• Self-starter with proven ability to work collaboratively within multi-disciplinary teams.
• Working knowledge of Windows based business software applications, including Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.

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