Commercial Operations Manager / Madrid

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The client is an international Renewable Energy Producer (REP) with over a decade-long trajectory of sustainable growth, that develops, builds, owns and operates renewable energy projects globally. I am looking for a Commercial Operations Manager to join their team in Madrid, Spain on their behalf.

The Role:
The Commercial Operations Manager will be a key member of the Asset Management Team, reporting into the Commercial Operations Team Leader within the Asset Management department in Spain. The successful candidate will have the following responsibilities:

• Ensure PPA compliance requirements are identified, understood, and tracked
• Identify and manage commercial and operational PPA agreement related risks.
• Detect relevant issues and activities for the proper PPA management.
• Direct dialogue with agents representing the market, office and control center.
• Manage energy sales on the wholesale market (OMIE, REE…)
• Billing of energy and other attributes (GOs), collection management, data storage.
• Budgeting of energy sales and attributes, validate the monthly revenues calculations creation of monthly sales reports.
• Active monitoring of changes in the regulation of the electricity market in the regions where projects are located.
• Manage the negotiation process by coordinating the operations team: O&M, Asset management, E&C, etc. Ensure smooth, efficient, well structured, and organized process. Manage timeline expectations, adherence to tight deadlines.
• Elaboration and support on force majeure incident reports 
• Ensure best operational terms are achieved in line with company’s PPA standards.
• Participation during the PPA negotiations from an AM perspective and during the commercial strategy.
• To monitor the PPA asset’s value periodically through the interface system to identify any abnormal operating and equipment conditions (cooperate with O&M and AM department).
• Management of forecasting and scheduling obligations directly or through consultants, forecasting accuracy monitoring, penalties for deviations, coordination of improvement implementations

Requirements:
The role requires ideally an experienced solar PV professional with an engineering background and management experience:

• Engineering degree complemented by commercial / technical training preferred
• Preferably knowledge in Energy management & Business and the willingness to learn about renewable sector, PV sites and applications. Additional legal knowledge will be a plus
• Desirable Knowledge of the energy sector in Spain and interest for the wholesale markets
• Strong analytical, critical and structured thinking skills
• Experience managing direct and indirect reports, but also a self-starter thriving on challenge
• Project planning and management skills.
• Skills in the generation of documentation and reports.
• Good relationship builder- open and honest style
• Systematic, structured and rational approach
• High level of both spoken and written English (generation of reports and documentation) is a must.
• Willingness to travel
• Good communicating and commercial skills enabling to effectively originate and close deals;
• Teamwork efficiency;
• Responsible, autonomous, organized, curious, Self-starter who thrives on a challenge