Head of Commercial Management

Overview

Lead and build commercial team for renewable project development and construction.

Key Responsibilities

• opportunity optimisation
• stakeholder management
• procurement strategy
• contract negotiation
• business case
• team leadership

Tasks

-Identify, prioritise, and optimise commercial opportunities across the Development & Construction portfolio to maximise value and support strategic objectives. -Forge and manage relationships with multiple stakeholders, including joint venture partners, regulators, government, and internal teams. -Develop and implement procurement, contracting, and negotiation strategies, including MSAs, ensuring risks are identified and embedded in pricing proposals. -Drive business case optimisation, contract management, and commercial performance to deliver projects on time, on budget, and aligned with financial targets. -Establish and lead a new commercial team, setting vision, governance, and ways of working while driving collaboration and innovation.

Requirements

• renewable energy
• leadership
• joint ventures
• contract negotiation
• dcf modelling
• financial acumen

What You Bring

-Extensive experience setting up new commercial functions or programmes, ideally in renewable energy or large-scale infrastructure. -Proven ability to lead and empower multidisciplinary teams to deliver commercially robust outcomes. -Strong expertise in joint ventures, partnerships, and managing complex stakeholder landscapes. -Significant experience negotiating high-value contracts, including MSAs, embedding risk mitigation into pricing, and managing contractual exposure. -Exceptional commercial and financial acumen, with a deep understanding of project value drivers, discounted cash flow modelling, project financing structures, and revenue mechanisms such as CfDs, CPPAs, and Cap & Floor arrangements.

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About Sse Renewables

-Founded in 2010 from the rebranding of Airtricity, it became SSE plc’s core renewables arm based in Perth, Scotland. -Also delivering solar and battery storage, including pioneering park developments in the UK. -The world’s deepest fixed-bottom wind project with 1.1 GW operational capacity. -Secured a project pipeline exceeding 15 GW with ambitious targets to reach 9 GW capacity by 2027.

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Security Clearance

-criminality check required -credit check required