Senior Energy Trader
Established in 2010, SOLEK Group specializes in renewable and sustainable energy. Innovator in solar power, Solek develops, build, owns and maintains several power plants throughout Europe and Latin America.
Our powerplants have been operating in Czechia, Slovakia, Romania & Chile.
We are based in Prague and Santiago and have offices in Romania, Hungary, Cyprus & Greece.
We are rapidly growing both in Europe, expanding into France and other countries, but also in Latin America where We will be expanding into Peru and Colombia in the near future
Our long-term goal is to develop a pipeline of greenfield projects of over 2 GWp.
We have a friendly, start-up atmosphere and an international mindset.
Apply and join us in developing greener future.
- Market development, origination, and structuring of PPAs for mainly European/Americas based markets for portfolio of developed and acquired Wind and Solar projects.
- Research into changing characteristics of the energy markets and the impact on retail electricity pricing for industrial customers to provide insights to how their energy costs may change
- Development, negotiation and closing of PPAs with Corporate, Utilities, Traders, Communities, Commercial and Industrial customers
- Collaborating with the legal team and project finance teams, and sharing with the team common/market contractual positions and compromises
- Deliver on target volume, revenue, and margin goals for off-take agreements from PV solar projects
- Negotiate power contracts with counterparties in collaboration with company stakeholders.
- Establish relationships with procurement, trading, and origination desks at utilities, municipalities, coops, C&I off-takers, investment banks and power marketers
- Drive power marketing “ideas” to definitive deliverables (financial models, term sheets, contracts) and timetables for execution
- Provide deal structure recommendations to minimize collateral requirements and support negotiation of financing arrangements
- Previous experience in the valuation, structuring, negotiation, and execution of either asset-backed transactions or structured commodity/cross commodity transactions
- Previous experience with electricity/commodity trading
- Experience and good knowledge of PPA contracts
- Understanding of the Power markets, and the interplay between grid interconnection, land acquisition and permitting
- Strong project management, organizational, and analytical problem-solving skills, and ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously
- Ability to work independently and as part of a larger team and take the initiative to follow up as needed
- Experience in solar industry a plus, but not required
Soft skills:
- Outgoing
- sales-oriented mentality
- Good communication and negotiation skills
- Strong organizational, and analytical problem-solving skills
- Ability to multitask
- 25 days of vacation
- Bonuses based on personal performance
- Start-up, flexible, dynamic environment
- Opportunity to work in a renewable energy industry
- Multicultural environment