Project Development Manager - Infrastructure
CIMIC
- Sydney, NSW
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Identify and develop PPP and other project financed opportunities
- Support business development opportunities (e.g. market research, competition analysis, new sectors feasibility assessment), including client engagement through market interactive processes, industry briefings and unsolicited proposals)
- Develop and manage relationships with CIMIC opcos (including CPB and UGL) to ensure coordinated alignment on project and business development, identification of pipeline opportunities and consortium formation
- Lead and work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team of development, technical, legal, commercial, finance and submission personnel along with external advisers to efficiently develop project finance opportunities from early stage identification through bidding and ultimately to financial close through management of key workstreams:
- Negotiating commercial outcomes with counterparties
- Hands-on role in managing due diligence workstreams
- Project funding and commercial activities
- Prepare and manage acquisition and development budgets, resourcing plans and schedules
- Risk management framework across project phases ensuring key risks are identified and appropriate treatment and mitigation is implemented for review and approval
- Offer submission and document writing, review and editing as required
- Identify resource and skill gaps within the development workstream and develop strategies to bridge the gaps
- Manage and mentor junior development team members
- Manage the setup of asset development processes and administration systems
- Support the acquisition and development approval process and other internal governance activities.
- Assist with strategy development and refinement for the opportunity
- Assist with the development of commercial and technical solutions for project finance proposals
- Management of client interactions including both verbal and written communications
- Interface with D&C and O&M teams
- Set up and oversee bid management
- Relevant tertiary qualification in engineering, commerce, finance or other related discipline
- Relevant and demonstrated 10+ years experience and proven track record of managing complex projects, including exposure to all phases within a project lifecycle
- 5+ years' experience in private financed greenfield infrastructure in Australia
- Experience in leading, managing, reviewing and understanding multi-disciplinary teams and related output reports / documents and ability to summarise and communicate key outcomes and takeaways.
- Experience in acquisition processes of early to mid-stage infrastructure development assets
- Strong analytical skills, specifically; distilling, synthesizing and translating multiple sources of information into strategic direction and recommended course of action
- Comfortable working with complexity and ambiguity to drive risk and value-based decision making
- Effective written and oral communications skills with experience preparing for, writing, and presenting to Senior Management and Business leaders.
- Capable of operating both independently and collaboratively in projects involving multiple workstreams and stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to negotiate successful project development outcomes with key government and/or non-government stakeholders
- Proven relationship building, people management and stakeholder management skills