Casebook Manager, Offshore Wind US

RWE Offshore Wind Services, LLC
Functional area: Corporate Development / Strategy

 

RWE Offshore Wind is looking for a Casebook Manager to join our dynamic Development Services team where relationship building, hands-on decision making and progression will be an integrated part of this position.  The selected candidate would work closely with our US Development team and Global Optimisation & Pipeline Management department with a focus on supporting various aspects of development project delivery.

In this role you will drive the project case development, optioneering and optimisation of early stage offshore wind development projects. You will work within the project’s bid workstream to determine and evaluate an envelope of cases, determine trends, analyse trade-offs and identify most effective options. You will collate, acquire and generate business intelligence in order to provide strategic direction for the project and the continuous optimisation of its project case. There are opportunities to support floating wind and green hydrogen projects as well as fixed bottom offshore wind dependent on project pipeline. Working with the Bid Manager you will support bid submissions during competitive tenders and associated bid workstream activities. While aligned in the US you will also be a part of a globally matrixed organization.

This is an exciting role within RWE Offshore Wind business and the successful applicant will be a key member of a team with ambitious growth targets while demonstrating a self-confident and independent focus as a casebook manager leveraging your existing skill-sets to further enhance the capabilities of RWE Offshore within the highly competitive area of Offshore Wind lease and/or route to market auctions. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Site prospecting: coordination of all inputs to enable ranking of possible site locations.  Holistic SWOT analysis of site options (e.g. permitting, grid access, calculation of comparative LCOEs to enable comparison of prospective sites).
• Drive and analyse the project case development, optioneering and optimisation of offshore wind development projects
• Co-ordinate, determine and evaluate an envelope of cases, determine trends, analyse trade-offs and identify most effective options.
• Support each project with optimal wind farm concept selection and optimization through economic analysis of design options
• Contribute to the identification of strategic levers and implementation thereof into the bid strategy to increase the competitiveness and deliverability of the auction.

• Support bid workstream to prepare and submit tender documentation and bid(s) ensuring submissions achieve compliance with the tender regulations and internal governance processes.
• Ensure best practice approaches, tools are shared across and transferred into bid projects.

Your Experience & Skills:

• Fluency in spoken and written English. Additional language beneficial (esp. German, French, Dutch, Spanish)
• Degree in business administration, engineering, renewable energy or similar numeric subject is expected.
• Track record of relevant professional experience in projects which should include developing project cases, optioneering, data analysis.  
• Flair for handling & manipulating data to forecast, derive trends and test sensitivities.
• Experiences in Offshore Wind tenders, business growth & competitive appetite.
• Excellent communication skills with proven ability to persuade, challenge and build credibility based on personally derived recommendations.
• Hands-on experience of optioneering.
• Computational literacy including handling data sets is mandatory. Proficiency in VBA modelling or similar would be advantageous.
• General understanding of the components of Offshore Wind assets including cost drivers and key risks and opportunities is desirable.
• Ability to develop tools, processes and facilitate best practice & knowledge sharing.  
• Any previous experience in floating wind or offshore green hydrogen would be advantageous.
• Appetite to take personal responsibility for driving own development & career growth, broadening your professional competencies, skills and own learnings across commercial, technical, and regulatory fields.
• A flexible approach as some international travel and attending meetings outside home time zone can be expected.

Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays. Eligible employees also participate in short-term incentives, in addition to salary.

RWE is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

For 125 years RWE has been the source of energy for millions of people across the globe. Now we’re making all that energy green. This decade alone we’re investing €50bn into renewables and will be carbon neutral by 2040 – ten years earlier than most other global targets. This is a chance to play a key role on our journey.

Join our renewables specialists, working across the clean energy spectrum to grow our operations to 50 GW by 2030 – with some of the world’s largest on and offshore wind farms and industry-leading hydrogen initiatives. We’re also considered innovators in solar development including floating photovoltaics and agri-photovoltaics. Or add your expertise to our supply and trading operations, brokering renewable electricity, green gas, commodities, and CO2 emission allowances from one of our advanced energy trading floors.

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Any questions? Your Contact in Recruiting: Elena Sanchez, , elena.sanchez@rwe.com