Electricity Market Lead, Japan & APAC at Global Infrastructure Fund

Company:

• Major infrastructure fund, managing >25bn EUR funds focused on clean energy across onshore renewables, offshore wind, hydrogen, biofuels and more.
• Current main fund has a heavy focus on Japan and APAC markets - deploying this capital and raising for the next generation fund in parallel.
• Office is located in central Tokyo - with a multinational investment and development team.

Role:

• Lead design and implementation of the offtake strategy across multi-technology portfolio of renewable energy projects, including offshore
  wind, onshore wind, solar PV and battery storage, initially in Japan but also expanding into key APAC markets.
• Hands-on role to Identify and originate offtakers and execute long-term structured
  agreements (PPAs, ancillary services agreements etc). 
• Work closely with investment and development project teams to ensure results of the market analysis and offtake strategies suit project’s economic models.

Advantages of role:

• Investor is a long-term player, with top level partnerships in Japan, a recent portfolio acquisition of onshore assets and are active in offshore project bids in R3 & 4.
• Young Japan team, with top local hires mixed with highly experienced technical and project team experts expatriated from overseas.
• Japan business has high level of freedom to make development and strategic decisions.  NOT micromanaged by global HQ like many competitors.
• High level of work life balance in European nature in comparison to other traditional private equity firms.