Senior Power Originator

bp • Chicago, IL

23h • $126,000 - $234,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

About us Our purpose is to bring together people, energy and markets to power and navigate a changing world. In a time of constant change and possibility we need new talent to pursue commercial opportunities, motivated by best-in-class insight and expertise. We’re always striving for more innovative digital solutions, sustainable outcomes and closer collaboration across our company and beyond, and you could be part of that too. Together we continue to grow as the world’s leading energy company! About the role Responsible for delivering transaction origination and execution, including power purchase and sale agreements, complex structured transactions, providing deal assurance, driving new business growth, leveraging BP's customer base, cross bench offerings and structured products, and building strategic relationships in order to maximize value to bp.

Requirements

• Top-tier experience in the energy trading and marketing sector, specifically power markets and business development.
• Experience in delivering commercial solutions and understanding key value drivers in the power and renewables sector.
• Strong communication and influencing skills coupled with a track record of delivery through action-orientated and value-based decisions; demonstrating relationships built on trust and commitments kept.
• Strong leadership, influencing and collaboration skills working across organizational lines
• Comfortable leading through ambiguous circumstances without clearly defined parameters yet results and deadline oriented.
• Demonstrated track record of successfully dealing with both internal and external collaborators.
• The ability to quickly identify where value and risks are in potential transactions coupled with the judgement to enhance value while mitigating risk.
• Managing negotiations pertaining to complex structured transactions and the team of people required for the purpose to successfully land these types of opportunities.
• Familiarity with credit, collateral and 1st lien structures for power generation assets.
• Strong analytical and technical skills to include deal structuring modeling and valuation, coupled with the ability to understand complex data sets.
• Developing and implementing market penetration strategies with the intention to respond to changing market conditions.

Responsibilities

• Deliver against financial performance targets through new and innovative deals focusing on effectively managing the risks of our customers.
• Oversee deal assurance and internal approval processes, ensuring deals and transactions deliver on both contractual intent as well as BP's expectations and identifying and implementing process improvements.
• Drive business development by leading the delivery of transactions and deals that expand BP's portfolio and target emerging customer bases, leading the prospecting, origination and execution of targeted new business opportunities.
• Build and maintain long-term, strategic relationships internally and externally to ensure compliance, drive efficiencies and identify and pursue new opportunities.
• Ensure personal compliance with BP’s Code of Conduct and demonstrates strong leadership through BP’s Leadership Expectations and Values & Behaviors.
• Understand, monitor current market conditions, identify opportunities for new transactions.

Benefits

• This position is eligible for US Benefits – Core.
• This position offers paid vacation depending on your years of relevant industry experience and will range from 120 – 240 hours of vacation per year for full time employees.
• You will also be eligible for 9 paid holidays per year and 2 personal choice holidays.
• Bp has a parental leave policy as well, which offers up to 8 weeks’ paid leave for the birth or adoption of a child.
• We offer a reward package to enable your work to fit with your life. These offerings include a discretionary annual bonus program, long-term incentive program, and generous retirement benefits that include a 401k matching program. These benefits include a pension for eligible employee.
• As part of bp’s wellbeing package, bp offers access to health, vision, and dental insurance, as well as life and Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed