You will be responsible for the management of key supply, construction and maintenance contract procurement activities in Japan to ensure the business delivers on the company goals with strong results and an appropriate risk profile. In order to do this role you must have a strong commercial acumen, extensive contract preparation and negotiation skills, a clear understanding of appropriate commercial risk position and the ability to ensure consistency across multiple contracts and regions.
· Lead supply, construction and maintenance contract procurement related tasks required to progress projects to commercialisation
· Manage supply chain commercial liaison and developing new partnerships with suppliers
· Manage all tender processes for new BESS and balance of plant (BOP) work packages and evaluating responses
· Manage the development of risk positions and pass through arrangements of all offtake contracts to ensure the lowest possible remaining gap risks
· Lead pre-construction negotiations with BESS and BOP suppliers (drafting Heads of Terms, reviewing engineering requirements/warranty terms/ contract terms) and generally driving the projects towards financial commitment by negotiating a suite of comprehensive contracts that deliver long term value for the asset.
· Manage commercial risk positions in all contracts to ensure consistency across the region and reduce construction and pass through risk to the maximum extent possible
· Support the project team in driving the project to financial close including coordination of due diligence advisors, insurance underwriters, commercial inputs to financial model and LD positions.
· Coordinate with other regional leads on global supply chain contracts and procurement, seeking to increase contract value by leveraging global scale
· Coordinate the transition of management of the contractual obligations to the construction and asset management teams
· Support the delivery and operations teams with issues arising throughout their administration of the contracts