Senior Renewables Business Development Manager

We, at Caudal Energy, have the ambition to harness the power of our oceans and turn our pioneering tidal stream technology into a scalable source of predictable and affordable energy. Backed by leading investors and Innovate UK, we are now moving from prototype development towards commercialising our proprietary equipment at scale. Developing projects that demonstrate our technology in real-world applications is fundamental to building the evidence, customer relationships and commercial pipeline that will enable this growth.

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We are looking for an experienced, energetic and commercially driven Business Developer to help accelerate our growth. You will play a key role in assessing markets, developing new opportunities, building our project pipeline and strengthening relationships with customers, partners and other key stakeholders.

Identify and develop tidal energy markets, customers, and commercial opportunities, creating tools and assets to support engagement.

Monitor electricity markets, policy, regulation, subsidies/support mechanisms, technology costs, competitors, and emerging opportunities.

Identify and develop specific opportunities for tidal stream projects. Find suitable sites and assess seabed availability, tidal resource, grid proximity, planning constraints, environmental considerations, and development potential.

Understand planning, permitting & grid strategy, and marine operations opportunities and constraints to incorporate into these opportunities.

Build, qualify, prioritise, and maintain a pipeline of prospective projects from early-stage opportunity through investment/financial close.

Identify potential developers, investors, utilities, technology providers, site-owners, and other partners for strategic collaboration. Secure LOIs in support of future investment raises.

Business case development & Deal execution: Prepare opportunity assessments, deal economics and business case proposals; then support projects through key milestones to financial close.

Lead or support negotiations involving site agreements, development rights, partnerships, offtake arrangements, joint ventures, and other commercial contracts.

Build and maintain long-term relationships with strategic customers, partners, site owners , local communities, government bodies and other stakeholders.

For live projects, bring together engineering, marine operations, environmental, finance, procurement and customer to progress projects.

Identify commercial, technical, regulatory, planning, grid, land, and stakeholder risks and develop mitigation strategies.

Manage regulatory interfaces to ensure on time delivery.

Marine energy sector experience

Renewable project execution post financial close

Planning/grid/regulatory awareness