What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Manager Corporate Development position at Blacklock Group?
Blacklock Group are partnered with a renewable power generation platform who are looking to add a corporate development senior manager to their growing team. The team is focused on wind and solar.
Responsibilities & Duties
• Deal Origination: Work with senior management to proactively identify, source and assess strategic acquisition opportunities to drive portfolio growth.
• Transaction Execution: Lead end-to-end execution of acquisitions including financial modeling, due diligence coordination, term sheet and PSA negotiation, regulatory approvals, and financial close. Manage internal and external deal teams (legal, tax, finance, engineering, environmental).
• Financial Analysis & Valuation: Develop complex financial models incorporating merchant price curves, hedging structures, PPA economics, O&M cost assumptions, debt financing, and tax equity structures.
• Market Intelligence: Develop and maintain deep knowledge of power generation market fundamentals, competitive landscape, power price forecasts, capacity market dynamics, REC markets, and regulatory developments affecting asset value across target regions.
• Counterparty Management: Serve as a relationship manager with sellers, advisors, and lenders, throughout the transaction process.
• Diligence Oversight: Lead technical, legal, commercial, and financial due diligence across large cross-functional deal teams. Coordinate with internal subject matter experts, engineering consultants, environmental advisors and legal counsel to identify risks and incorporate findings into valuation and deal structure.
• Board & Management Presentations: Prepare and present investment memoranda and strategic analysis to executive leadership and the Board.
• Post-Close Transition: Work collaboratively with Asset Management and Operations teams to ensure effective onboarding, integration, and handoff of acquired assets.
• Team Leadership: Mentor and develop junior M&A professionals. Contribute to building team processes, deal playbooks, and analytical frameworks. Represent the M&A function in cross-departmental initiatives.
Preferred Background
• 5-8 years of energy or infrastructure investment banking, private equity, corporate development, corporate finance or management consulting experience with a focus on power generation assets
• Significant experience working on M&A and/or project finance transactions
• BA/BS from a top university in Finance/Economics/Business/Accounting, or a similarly quantitative/analytical field
Salary : $150,000 - $250,000