Development Manager Energy & Infrastructure

This is an exciting opportunity for a Development Manager Energy & Infrastructure Offshore Development.

Client Details

You'll be surrounded by dedicated and talented individuals who are passionate about what they do, giving you the opportunity to learn and develop. You'll be working alongside like-minded, trusting and collegiate people who are working towards achieving the shared goal of making Scotland a better place.

Description

The post holder will be responsible for managing early development phase property rights, sectoral enabling activities and projects, and a wide range of stakeholders to successfully develop their lead sectors including Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), pipelines and other gas storage such as hydrogen.

With an emphasis on CCS from the outset, the role includes management of relationships with developers and other relevant partners, development and negotiation of property agreements, assessing new applications for property rights in the lead sectors, and managing various aspects of leasing on and beneath the seabed around Scotland.

The successful candidate for this role within the organisation will be responsible for:

Seabed agreements and tenants

· Managing, leading, coordinating or supporting development activities including leasing, implementation of new agreements, and of existing early-phase seabed agreements such as Option Agreements.

· Building and maintaining strong tenant relationships to ensure tenants have trust and confidence

Industry knowledge

· Establishing and maintaining a deep understanding of key aspects of the sectors such as policy, regulation, technical and commercial, with an emphasis on carbon dioxide storage (CCS).

· Developing and maintaining a view of industry positions and potential future growth opportunities and risks, with a focus on commercial and regulatory drivers to shape strategy for the sectors and to inform future business planning.

· Proactively managing and representing involvement in relevant groups and forums (including initiating/leading these as required) to maximise our contributions to, and understanding of, sector market's development and maturity, such as consenting, policy and practical delivery challenges.

Engagement and sector enabling

· Leading all stakeholder engagement, communication and joint working for their lead sectors, proactively managing to maximise efficiency and impact.

· Undertaking industry stakeholder engagement and relationship building to maintain a view of market conditions, and as a platform for influencing and shaping the business environment

· Coordinating with industry to identify and deliver studies to promote understanding and solutions for issues facing offshore interests.

· Defining and managing the implementation of sector enabling projects in accordance with project management best practice and internal governance.

General

· Managing internal and/ or external support resources such as solicitors, consultants and managing agents as required to contribute to meeting business plan targets, and/or improve commercial and legal development management performance.

· Managing, monitoring and reporting against budgets and organisational indicators.

· Supporting the wider Energy & Infrastructure team where required.

Profile

The ideal candidate will have the following qualities, which are key to success in this role:

· Motivated by creating long lasting value with the energy and drive to move sometimes complex, nuanced and/ or challenging activities forwards, alongside willingness to get involved in the detail.

· Great communication skills, with the ability to write succinct papers and to present complex technical information to a range of audiences and to distinguish what really matters from what doesn't.

· Strong leadership, clarity of purpose, and self-management skills, taking a proactive approach to dealing with issues, actively managing workloads to meet challenging deadlines/goals.

· Attention to detail and follow through to task completion.

· Excellent team-working skills, with aptitude for both team-based and autonomous delivery in a matrix organisational structure.

· Accomplished in typical office IT systems.

They will also meet the following criteria:

Essential

· Educated to undergraduate degree level or have equivalent experience in business, science, engineering, policy, surveying, law or related subject.

· Knowledge of relevant offshore sector(s) such as CCS, gas storage or wider offshore infrastructure and associated practices.

· An experienced project manager with appropriate knowledge and experience of leading projects through to completion.

· Understands demand drivers and markets or end uses relevant to your lead sectors, with transferable skills in relevant areas such as technology or consenting, and with a general understanding of other offshore sectors.

· Experienced in coastal/marine resource and/or asset management and development, with regulatory and commercial aspect to responsibilities.

· Have experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team with accountability for budgets and achieving performance targets including new business development within deadlines.

Desirable

· Have knowledge of relevant offshore regulation and policy.

· Have an existing network of industry and public sector relationships, with a track record of building trust in internal and external relationships and work with industry, government and other stakeholders.

· Have expert involvement, operational and commercial management of the consenting or offshore contracts or projects.

· Be an expert commercial negotiator with experience of £million contracts.

Job Offer

A starting Salary of £59,003

Civil Service Pension Contribution

25 day's annual leave, plus 11.5 of public/ privilege days.

Flexible working and

Supported learning and development