Commercial Advisor
As a Commercial Advisor at Tilt Renewables, you will play a crucial role in achieving shared targets by supporting the procurement and contracting of key renewable energy projects. Your hands-on approach will be essential in ensuring financial close and the commencement of construction.
Reporting to the Commercial Manager and working closely with the Commercial Development Team, you will ensure optimal procurement covering major equipment supply and installation, civil and electrical balance of plant, and grid connection works. Developing strong relationships with leading suppliers and contractors and ensuring an effective tendering process will be key to this role.
Key Accountabilities:
Pre-Tendering:
- Regular interaction with development team colleagues to stay informed on project development timelines and activities.
- Pre-qualification of OEMs and BOP contractors prior to tender release.
- External monitoring and industry networking to track market trends in project costs, contract structures, and risk profiles.
Tendering:
- Support preparation and release of tender packages for selected projects.
- Maintain regular contact with tenderers to ensure timely, complete, and high-quality submissions.
- Support structured review of tender submissions using pre-prepared assessment tools and templates.
Financial Close & Handover:
- Amend or update contracts to meet lenders' requirements.
- Assist in preparing board packs for equity final investment decision (FID).
- Provide ad-hoc contract interpretation and administration support during the project construction phase.
Financial Management:
- Ensure adherence to company cost control and financial management policies.
- Support project tendering and contract negotiations to achieve the best value for Tilt Renewables.
Stakeholder Management:
- Network and engage with OEMs, BOP contractors, and Transmission Network Service Providers (TNSPs).
- Consult internally on procurement strategy, structure, and timing of projects.
Business Planning and Continuous Improvement:
- Support business planning and continuous improvement activities.
Contract Negotiation:
- Work with senior team members to negotiate contracts and implement commercial processes.
Health, Safety & Environment:
- Ensure compliance with company HSE policies in all project tendering and contract negotiation processes.
This role requires someone who has:
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in procurement, supply chain roles, or project management with demonstrated commercial, contractual, and business acumen.
- Direct experience in renewable energy projects – advantageous.
- Experience in the energy or similar sector, particularly in tendering and agreement of key project contracts – preferred.
- Proficiency in coordinating multiple tendering and project processes.
Qualifications:
- Minimum graduate-level degree in Engineering, Finance, Law, or other relevant qualification.
About Tilt Renewables
Tilt Renewables is Australia's largest owner of wind and solar generation in Australia and are passionate about the role we play in driving the transition to renewables across the Australian Market. We strive to maintain the attributes of a start-up – entrepreneurial, innovative, agile and embracing of current technology changes so that Tilt Renewables can continue to be one of the leading developer, owner and operation of renewable energy assets.
Our strategy is to execute on our current assets and pipeline, expand the business, our capability and capacity, and evolve in a response to customer needs and new markets. Our goal is to have a portfolio of 7GW of operational assets by 2030.
Our Benefits include:
- Hybrid working model -Flexibility with 3 days on-site and 2 days remote.
- Extended Parental leave - Benefit from 16 weeks of parental leave
- Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave (up to 2 weeks)
- Wellbeing support – Access to the Employee Assistance Program - EAP
- Career Growth – Explore opportunities for professional development
- Access to Perkbox – Global Benefits and rewards platform
- Recognised as a Work180 endorsed employer
- Proud member Diversity Council Australia
- Certified as Great Place to work 2024
For further information and to review the position description please go to our website: https://www.tiltrenewables.com/careers/
To submit your application - click 'Apply' or go to the Tilt Renewables careers page.
Recruitment agencies please note: Only agencies engaged directly through Tilt Renewables via our People & Culture team for specific roles will be eligible for a placement fee. Speculative resumes will not be eligible for a placement fee.