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Join a leading energy innovator and spearhead the expansion of Spain's battery market as an Origination Specialist.
Overview
Salary
£50000 - £70000
Location
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Expires at anytime
Seize the opportunity to drive progress in renewable energy infrastructure within a forward-thinking company dedicated to shaping the future of Spain's battery market. This permanent full-time position as an Origination Specialist is based in beautiful Spain and offers a competitive salary range of €50,000 to €70,000, with additional benefits that underscore our commitment to employee growth, work-life balance, and environmental stewardship.
Role Summary:
- Scout and identify strategic sites for development, leveraging your understanding of technical, environmental, and urban regulations.
- Utilize various tools and sources, like land registries and planning portals, to discover and assess potential locations for development.
- Screen potential sites from both a landowner approach and a planning perspective, including environmental and physical constraints.
- Engage with land and estate owners to negotiate and agree on terms, fostering relationships and advancing project legalities.
- Work closely with legal teams to convert preliminary agreements into actionable options and maintain transparent progress reporting within the business.
Role Requirements:
- Residence in Andalucia, Spain, with a driver's license and willingness to travel.
- Proven expertise in site identification, negotiation of terms, and understanding of land legal processes.
- A strong track record in securing sites for development, particularly in renewable energy sectors like wind or solar.
- Familiarity with key development risks and strategies to mitigate them.
Job Benefits:
- Competitive remuneration and an employee share scheme.
- Performance-based bonus of up to 10% and 23 vacation days annually.
- Hybrid working model, green leave initiative, and comprehensive mental health support.
- Annual training budget of €2,000 and the flexibility to work from anywhere in the world for one month each year.
Origination Specialist
Department: Development
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Spain
Reporting To: Toni Martinez
Compensation: £50,000 - £70,000 / year
Description
This is a newly created position within the team, driven by the ongoing growth of our project portfolio in Spain and the progress of projects throughout their development lifecycle. As land scout specialist, you will be responsible for the real estate activities required to develop the Spanish battery market.
Key Responsibilities
- Identifying suitable sites for our developments by:
- Understanding access and connection capacity available in the electrical grid, technical/environmental territorial regulations, and urban aspects to spot a potential new location before others do.
- Using the land registry, planning portals and other sources to identify parcels of land that may be suitable for development and haven’t already been progressed by another party
- Identifying the number of third parties that would be involved in wayleaves, easements and servitudes for services
- Having a great network of agents that bring opportunities to you
- Screening inbound approaches to Field from landowners who have the appetite for a project on their land
- Screening prospective sites from a planning perspective by:
- Using publicly available and commercial tools to assess key environmental constraints and designations
- Assessing physical constraints including, but not limited to, topography, noise, access, drainage visual impact, and buried and above ground services
- Commissioning third-party planning appraisals and environmental assessments as required
- Undertaking site visits to familiarise yourself with the situation on the ground and to truth desktop assessments
- Engaging with land and estate owners to agree Heads of Terms by:
- Utilising a range of tools and following your nose to find landowner details to make initial contact
- Arranging onsite meetings to introduce yourself, Field and the idea of a project
- Selling Field as a business and brand to gain an advantage over the competition in competitive land situations
- Preparing and circulating heads of terms and associated plans
- Negotiating heads of terms with agents and/or landowners, often in person
- Supporting our legal team in converting HoTs to Options by:
- Regularly meeting landowners to build and maintain a good relationship
- Negotiating commercial points landowners, agents and solicitors as they arise
- Understanding and using commercial clauses to protect Field from a property and project delivery perspective
- “Moving fast’ and incentivising the stakeholder supply chain where appropriate
- Engaging land and estate owners to agree easements/servitudes for services by;
- Following similar processes to those outlined above
- Addressing key concerns and sticking points and finding solutions
- Taking a commercially minded and pragmatic approach to your negotiations
- Transparently reporting progress back to the wider business by:
- Maintaining a high level of organisation
- Using Field’s processes
- Concisely translating technical details to a wider non-technical audience when required
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- You must be based in Andalucia and have a driver’s licence, with the willingness to travel throughout Spain as required
- You know how to identify the best sites - you know what factors to consider when reviewing possible development locations
- Experience and knowledge of negotiating Heads of Terms and Option & Lease documents;
- Experience and knowledge of land legal processes so you can guide a sale process from start to finish
- Proven track record in securing sites - you know how to get a sale across the line
- Understanding and experience of the development of renewable energy infrastructure - you don’t need to know a lot about battery storage (we’ll teach you that!), but experience in wind or solar developments is a must
Knowledge of key risks to development success, along with the experience to help us minimise these
Job Benefits
We offer a competitive remuneration package, including an employee share scheme that rewards all employees for the company's growth.
Salary: €50,000 - €70,000
Other benefits include:
- Up to a 10% bonus based on company performance
- 23 labour days as vacation days
- Hybrid working (blend of home and office working to suit individual needs)
- Green leave: Paid time off to contribute positively to the environment
- Spill: Our mental health benefit that allows every Fielder equal and unrestricted access to therapy and resources
- Annual budget of 2,000 EUR for training and development, investable in what best aids your growth.
- "Work from anywhere in the world" policy for one month per year.
