Storage Business Development Analyst – Italy
About us
Matrix Renewables is a renewable energy platform that was founded by global alternative asset manager TPG through its impact investing platform, The Rise Fund, in 2020. Headquartered in Rome, Matrix Renewables focuses on developing, constructing and being long-term owners of renewable energy assets.
Matrix Renewables’ current portfolio is comprised of 12.2 GW (operational, under construction, ready to build, under development) of renewable energy projects and storage across North America, Europe and Latin America.
TPG Rise is a $17 billion impact investing platform focused on investing in and supporting the growth of world-class businesses that deliver positive and measurable social and environmental impact globally.
TPG is a leading global alternative asset investment firm with offices in Austin, Beijing, Boston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Luxembourg, Melbourne, Moscow, Mumbai, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Singapore, and Washington D.C. TPG’s investment platforms span a wide range of asset classes, including private equity, growth equity, impact investing, infrastructure, growth venture, real estate, secondaries, and public equity.
The Role
At Matrix Renewables we are looking for a highly motivated individual to play a key role supporting our Storage Business Development in Italy. Based in Rome, the Storage Business Development analyst will be assisting Storage Business Development activities over Matrix’s portfolio of projects in Italy, reporting to Matrix’s Storage BD Manager and Storage BD Associate in Rome. The Candidate should assist the Storage Business Development team in Italy in their day-to-day activities, monitoring compliance with contractual obligations and assessing the quality of work done by with Matrix’s developers, assisting in the ordinary corporate and administrative obligations, liaising with external advisors and assisting to M&A, financing and operation teams when required. The candidate must be familiar with all aspects of the development of renewable energy projects in the country, ideallyfor Energy Storage. During the development phase, the candidate will collaborate with in-house Matrix and external teams to ensure that projects obtain all the permits, authorizations, and licenses necessary to reach Ready to Build (“RTB”) status, on time.
Key activities and responsibilities:
- Assist the Storage Business Development team in Italy in their day-to-day activities.
- Help manage greenfield project opportunities (land securing and interconnection procedures) and other early-stage project development activities.
- Ensure projects’ VDR are updated with relevant documentation through each project development stage.
- Help tracking development status of projects in its pipeline, liaising with developers to help to deliver projects different milestones and RTB on time.
- Help to implement ESG Company policy at local level in compliance with modern standards, regulations, and best industry practice. Flag to development team any ESG issues as soon as possible, gather information related to them and where instructed interact with stakeholders if appropriate
General Skills / Attributes:
- Master’s degree in Engineering, law or business.
- 1-2 years minimum of energy industry experience in a business development, project administration, project management.
- Understanding of the development, construction, and operational processes for energy storage or renewable projects in Italy.
- An ability to perform at a high level in a matrixed organization, working in interdepartmental teams to achieve objectives.
- Solid communication skills: capability to establish technical discussions in different cultural environments.
- Fluent in English & Italian. Spanish will be much appreciated.
- Ability to travel through Italy to meet stakeholders around Matrix projects.