Senior Lead Data Center Energy Strategic Negotiator
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Economics, Finance, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience leading energy transaction structuring and negotiations, utility procurement, energy project development or finance/consulting roles.
- Experience in European power markets and carbon-free energy technologies.
- Experience with macro-level European energy markets and policy trends.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in energy project development, commercial negotiations, or business development for large-scale infrastructure, power generation, data center projects, or related industries.
- Experience on flexibility, energy storage and demand-response technologies.
- Experience with onsite, hybrid and off-grid solutions for electricity generation and supply (e.g., behind the meter, private wires, etc.).
- Experience with energy supply onsite generation solutions or or emerging carbon-free technologies (long duration storage, carbon capture, hydrogen, geothermal, etc.).
- Ability to comfortably work in ambiguous, collaborative, and fast-moving environments.
About the job
Google's infrastructure needs go far beyond server computers. As Google's products and services scale the globe, the Strategic Negotiation team works behind the scenes to secure infrastructure for Google's future -- everything from underwater cables to physical data center space. As a Strategic Negotiator, you combine your deep market knowledge of a given sector with tech industry savvy to negotiate cost-effective solutions to support Google's infrastructure growth. You'll work with specific project teams on negotiating deals, managing vendor and partner relationships and presenting deal recommendations to our Tech leadership. Your successful negotiations have the potential to save Google millions of dollars in operating costs and impact every part of the business.
The Energy and Power team works to support Google’s AI and data center growth needs and our clean energy and decarbonization goals, through strategic offtake agreements, investments and partnerships.
As a Senior Lead Energy Strategic Negotiator, you will analyze and communicate trends, and evaluate supply, investment opportunities, and agreement structures. You will work with project teams to support transactions, energy portfolio planning, and vendor and partner relationship management.
In this role, you will work across the EMEA portfolio to optimize data center energy supply and transmission capacity with innovative energy projects, partnerships and transactions. You will work in partnership with stakeholders across global infrastructure and energy, as well as other teams within technical infrastructure, finance, and legal. You will be working closely with a network of internal stakeholders as well as strategic external partners to support the growth of Google Data Center’s Energy and Power infrastructure portfolio.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
Responsibilities
- Lead EMEA regional energy strategy for Google’s data center portfolio to meet Google energy supply growth efforts and Google's carbon-free energy goals in the region.
- Lead transaction origination, structuring and negotiations for energy supply agreements, carbon-free energy purchase agreements, power infrastructure, and other data center energy agreements, including interconnection agreements.
- Build strategic relationships with energy vendors, identify new solutions and opportunities for partnership or expansions in collaboration with partner teams.
- Collaborate with a variety of energy and infrastructure team members (site selection, portfolio managers, analytics experts, etc.) and cross-company partner teams (Engineering, Finance, Legal, Accounting, etc.).
- Perform analyses (agreement structuring, power market analysis, financial forecasting), and develop salient recommendations based on modeling. Lead agreement approvals, with executives and partner teams.
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