Senior Manager - Clean Energy Policy

Job Description

This position provides leadership and manages all aspects of clean energy technologies focusing on energy storage and microgrids. Manages the investigation and evaluation of various clean energy programs, projects, and pilots for the organization's operating companies. Represents AVANGRID Networks before various stakeholders, including partners, municipal, governmental and/or regulatory entities. This position supports the Program Director for all project management requirements including Capital, OpEx budgets, securing approvals, ensuring accounting requirements, procurement and purchasing approvals to drive and enable the Companies clean energy policy efforts. Supports strategic direction and initiates action plans and assignments to accomplish program, project, and pilot goals, working with various business unit team members, and functional leaders across the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities

• Focusing on energy storage, microgrids, and demand side management opportunities, leads the strategy, development and launch of new pilots, projects, programs, solicitations, or solutions, and grant development, anticipating key trends for the future of Networks and the sector.
• Proactively prepares business cases, program/project/pilot justifications, stakeholder management and communications plans, partnership formation recommendations, use case development and manages successful implementation, tracking and reporting.
• Proactively prepares regulatory documents for all regulatory proceedings associated with energy storage and microgrid clean energy technologies.
• Support all deliverables coming out of the same with a focus on stakeholder collaboration, coordination, communication, decision making, problem solving and issue resolution in alignment with the internal regulatory strategy.
• Responsible to develop and execute on stakeholder management and communications plans, partnership formation requirements, use case development and manages successful implementation, tracking and reporting.
• Responsible for success of enterprise level complex program, project or pilot delivery and attainment of results. Monitors progress against plans and reports to senior management.
• Responsible for recommending resourcing of program, project, or pilot implementation, financial planning, and performance and KPI tracking, risk management reporting support, setting quality control standards and tracking and reporting of the same.
• Coordinates efforts of cross-functional project teams, holds regular program/project status meetings.
• Ensures successful transition, including change management and required business process integration to appropriate business areas, as needed.
• Responsible to support and execute on all project management business requirements including Capital, OpEx budgets including securing approvals, ensuring accounting requirements, procurement and purchasing approvals to enable the Company technical platform solution.
• Drives project objectives attaining cost benefits, successful operational integration, including change management and required business process integration and successful integration of energy storage and microgrid technologies including technology execution, alignment, and sustainability.
• Accountable for the performance and results of a large single, or multiple smaller departments with products, services, purposes and objectives that are interrelated.
• Develops departmental short-term strategic and tactical plans which includes business, production and/or organizational priorities.
• Provides recommendations at a high level of authority defining goals and outcomes for the responsible departmental areas.
• Drives briefings and status reports on a regular basis for AVANGRID and Iberdrola executives, regulatory agencies, and other key stakeholders.
• Lead and manage the completion of Networks energy storage and microgrid tariff development
• Subject matter expert on Networks competitive energy storage procurements
• Manage and execute all regulatory requirements for energy storage & microgrid programs
• Lead and manage the regulatory and project requirements for energy storage microgrid pilots across Networks.

Avangrid employees are assigned a system emergency role and in the event of a system emergency are expected to fulfill their assigned role

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred.
• Minimum 10+ years working in a regulated utility environment with direct experience in business project management and execution with a strong financial background.
• A Change Management, PMP and/or Lean Six Sigma Certification(s) is a plus.
• Experience leading enterprise multi-utility, cross-functional, and cross-cultural teams
• Experience and understanding of establishing project accounting according to guidelines to ensure cost recovery through accurate reporting.
• Experience with financial budgeting, forecasting, and tracking.
• Experience in communications and stakeholder engagement, strategy development and execution, public affairs, and community relations.
• Experience with utility regulatory stakeholder management required.
• Experience leading implementation of complex initiatives, business case development and benefits capture.
• Proven leadership ability within a matrix environment, including geographically dispersed teams.
• Proven ability to lead a team, identify areas of potential improvement and implement strategies.
• Proven track record of achieving results in high pressure and high-profile assignments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Employment experience with a gas or electric utility is a plus.
• Excellent research and report writing skills.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, organizational, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent verbal, interpersonal, and written communication skills with the ability to communicate to customers, key external stakeholders and at executive levels from time to time.
• Strong planning, coordinating and organizational skills with an ability to manage multiple assignments; advanced project management, organizational, problem solving, analytical and decision making.
• Strong project, process management, negotiation, financial analysis, and data mining skills.
• Strong process, cost, and financial analysis skills
• Self-motivated, creative thinker who can manage and deliver on tight deadlines with changing priorities.
• Able to promote trust; work within a matrix environment, including collaboration within diverse, geographically dispersed teams.
• Able to work independently, exercise considerable judgment, and recommend a course of action based on solid analysis and rationale.
• Able to foster individual professional development.
• Must be able to perform in a fast-paced environment handling multiple competing priorities while effectively leading a team and dealing with ambiguity.
• Advanced PC skills

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Avangrid employees may be assigned a system emergency role and in the event of a system emergency, may be required to work outside of their regular schedule/job duties. This is applicable to employees that will work in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within AVANGRD Network and Corporate functions. This does not include those that will work for Avangrid Renewables