Head of Partnerships

**RWE Renewables Offshore, to be based in either **Tokyo (Japan), **Seoul (Korea), **Taipei (Taiwan), **Melbourne (Australia), **Essen (Germany) or **Swindon (United Kingdom)**

**To start as soon as possible, Full time, Permanent**

**Functional area**: Commercial / Trading

**Your role**

As Head of Partnerships & Transactions APAC you will be responsible for developing and executing technology
- and regional partnership strategies to support development pipeline growth and managing participations for existing partnerships and joint ventures. As of now, RWE Renewables is creating opportunities to develop renewables assets in India, Japan, Taiwan, Korea and Australia. The position holder can be based in either of those countries, but also in one of our major locations such as Essen, Germany, or Swindon, UK.

**Your tasks**
- Delivering the APAC RWE Renewables commercial partnership strategy with third party investors
- Building up market intelligence (in alignment with Global Accounts) and relevant investor know-how to identify investment opportunities and anticipate developments
- Supporting strategic portfolio analysis and respective optimization measures incl. recommendations for structuring and delivery of respective transactions
- Supporting of business case and auction model development by providing Partnerships & Transactions relevant assumptions regarding sell-down and competitor cost of capital
- Transaction management for small scale M&A EV < EUR 25m, incl. negotiating and setting up contract structures with support from the Legal team
- Providing support to greenfield and brownfield development on demand
- Managing relationships with existing partners regarding the existing investments in context of participation management activities
- Market screening to identify potential partners and their demand/preferences, development of complementary partner profiles and matching of preferences with RES development and operating assets as well as complementary services
- Initiating new contacts/relationships with partners and market players as well as maintenance of existing ones
- Exploring preferences, risk appetite etc. of investor types by fostering regular exchange (e.g. via project workshops)

**Your profile**
- University degree in economics, law or science with distinction
- Extensive relevant work experience in M&A, transactions and project management
- In depth understanding or our business model, regulatory and technical developments as their potential implications on strategy and operations
- Strong commercial mindset and financial acumen
- Profound understanding of regulatory frameworks in different jurisdictions/markets as well as the correlating decision making processes
- Relationship management and partnering expertise
- Flexibility and willingness to travel internationally on a regular basis
- Fluent English language skills are mandatory, other languages welcome

**Leadership skills**
- Team Leadership: Ability to lead, inspire, manage and delegate effectively
- People Development: Ability to develop themselves and their people to their full potential
- Performance Orientation: Self-motivated to drive the business, increase performance and deliver results
- Strategic thinking: Push the boundaries to grow the business
- Continuous Improvement: Constantly optimizing the business
- Integration Management: Ability to lead teams through change processes
- Working Together: Ability to collaborate globally in cross functional teams
- Communication skills: Ability to effectively communicate internally & externally
- Open mindset: Self-reflective personality, able to learn and act on feedback
- Hands-on mentality: Actively involving him-/herself, pragmatic and fact focused attitude

We look forward to meeting you

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RWE represents change, innovation and sustainability. As one of the world’s leading generators of electricity from renewable energy sources, we aim to be carbon-neutral by 2040 and to enable a sustainable life for people around the world. To achieve this, we are looking for dynamic and motivated people to join us in creating a sustainable and secure energy future.

RWE Renewables GmbH, based in Essen, Germany, is RWE’s youngest subsidiary and one of the world’s leading companies in the field of renewable energies. With an international team of around 3,500 employees, we are drivers of the energy transition - and provide electricity for a sustainable life. Our total capacity of more than 9 gigawatts results from onshore and offshore wind parks, photovoltaic plants and battery storage. We focus on growth: on the American continent, on the European core markets and on new markets in the Asia-Pacific region.