Enlight Renewable Energy is seeking a Senior Business Development Manager – Renewable Energy Origination (IPP) to lead the origination, structuring, and closing of renewable energy project acquisitions across Europe.
This is a senior, front-line origination and execution role with full ownership of deals from first market entry through closing and handover. The role is accountable for sourcing and closing MW-scale projects across PV, BESS, and wind, with the ambition to expand into additional technologies such as Data Centers and Power-to-X.
The position is Europe-based with flexibility, and requires extensive travel across Central, Northern, and Eastern Europe.
Responsibilities:
This is a senior, front-line origination and execution role with full ownership of deals from first market entry through closing and handover. The role is accountable for sourcing and closing MW-scale projects across PV, BESS, and wind, with the ambition to expand into additional technologies such as Data Centers and Power-to-X.
The position is Europe-based with flexibility, and requires extensive travel across Central, Northern, and Eastern Europe.
Responsibilities:
- Proactively originate off-market and proprietary renewable energy opportunities across Central, Northern, and Eastern Europe
- Build and maintain strong local origination pipelines with developers, landowners, brokers, utilities, and other partners
- Lead market entry efforts and establish long-term origination channels in new geographies
- Continuously screen opportunities across early-stage to RTB assets
- Own full commercial evaluation and transaction strategy for each opportunity, with a clear IPP ownership mindset
- Lead valuation, risk assessment, and investment logic
- Prepare and submit Non-Binding Offers (NBOs) and term sheets in competitive processes
- Drive deal execution with urgency, discipline, and accountability
- Lead end-to-end due diligence processes (technical, legal, commercial, permitting, grid, and financial), leveraging in-house teams and external advisors
- Challenge assumptions, identify execution risks, and safeguard long-term portfolio value
- Manage and push external advisors to timelines aligned with deal velocity
- Lead negotiations of SPA, DSA, joint venture, and development partnership agreements
- Take full commercial ownership of contractual terms
- Drive transactions to signing and closing under tight timelines
- Ensure a clean and effective handover to development, construction, and asset management teams
- 10+ years of experience in renewable energy origination, acquisitions, or development within an IPP or leading market player
- Proven track record of closed transactions (not only sourced) in PV, BESS, and/or wind
- Hands-on experience leading NBOs, due diligence processes, and SPA/DSA negotiations
- Strong understanding of European permitting regimes, grid connection processes, and development risks
- Direct market experience across Central, Northern, and Eastern Europe
- Strong commercial mindset combined with technical credibility
- Ability to operate independently with minimal supervision and manage multiple transactions in parallel
- Fluent English required; additional European languages are a strong advantage
- Willingness to travel extensively across Europe