Renewable Power Market Lead (US)

Lead, Renewable Power Market (US) – BBA Consultants

Type of position: Regular

Mission: Business and technical leadership role focused on US renewable power market growth, building client relationships, strategic planning, and representing BBA’s brand.

Responsibilities

• Establish, strengthen, and grow client relationships.
• Define and implement growth strategy in new regions.
• Support the implementation of local growth strategies.
• Foster strong internal relationships and engagement with BBA Consultants staff in the US, Canada, and globally.
• Identify, develop, and oversee new services, skillsets, and tools.
• Provide strategic project oversight.
• Advise clients and mentor technical staff.
• Act as Client Account Manager, Project Director, and/or technical mentor for select strategic projects and clients.
• Oversee internal teams for project delivery and day‑to‑day execution.
• Provide expertise and guidance to clients and project teams.
• Conduct technical reviews and oversee engineering and design activities.
• Coordinate with operational teams across the United States, Canada, and globally to align market opportunities and resource planning.

Business Development & Strategic Planning

• Maintain knowledge of North American power market and renewable and energy storage development trends.
• Build and maintain strong professional relationships with clients and key stakeholders in the renewable energy and electricity sector in the United States and globally.
• Work closely with the VP International to orient and support local growth strategies.
• Support development, implementation, and execution of the renewables and energy storage strategy and action plan.
• Identify target clients to build a sustainable client portfolio.
• Identify and pursue opportunities for innovation and continuous improvement.
• Position for upcoming opportunities, lead and/or support proposals and implement pursuit/capture strategies.
• Cross‑sell services of other divisions within other business lines and regions where there is a value‑add.
• Support the development of a medium‑ and long‑term pipeline forecast.

Development of Capabilities

• Actively contribute to building competence and skills (recruitment, training, partnership, etc.).
• Support the development of BBA’s renewables service line in North America, with primary focus on growth in the US.
• Identify capability gaps and develop and implement plans to close them in collaboration with BBA teams.
• Engage in industry participation and thought‑leadership activities (white paper, panelist, presenter at conference, etc.).

Operations

• Act as Client Account Manager, Project Director, and/or technical mentor for select strategic projects and clients.
• Oversee internal teams for delivery and day‑to‑day execution of renewables projects.
• Work directly with BBA’s operational teams across the United States (and Canada and globally) to ensure alignment between market opportunities, services in demand, and a growth target and resourcing forecast.
• Lead with BBA’s operational teams to implement and maintain a sector‑specific business approach, including market intelligence, alignment, and positioning.
• Provide expertise and guidance to both BBA’s clients and project teams.
• Conduct technical reviews and oversee engineering and design activities within areas of expertise.
• Execute technical and strategic mandates based on areas of expertise and coordinate with BBA’s internal disciplines across the United States (and Canada and globally).

Qualities & Values

• Willingness to work together while having fun.
• Results‑driven.
• Entrepreneurial spirit.
• Fascination for innovation.
• Thirst to learn and excel.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree (civil, structural, geotechnical or electrical discipline preferred), with a Professional Engineering registration in one or more jurisdictions in the United States.
• Minimum 15 years experience in the electric power sector with at least 5 years in renewable energy (wind/solar/battery energy storage), with broad sector knowledge.
• Strong knowledge of renewable energy (wind, solar, BESS) technologies and OEMs.
• Strong communications, interpersonal, relationship‑building skills.
• Extremely versatile and broad – thrives on a wide variety of tasks and challenges.
• Strong and demonstrated critical thinking skills.
• Able to travel domestically within the United States and to international destinations such as Canada, Peru, and Chile.
• Fluent in English.
• Project management proficiency.
• Design/Construction/Commissioning supervision and/or coordination experience.
• Renewables owner’s engineering and/or advisory (independent engineering).
• Knowledge of permitting, interconnections and project development.
• Professional Engineer (P.E.) designation in multiple US States.
• Fluency in French and/or Spanish language.

Benefits

• Annual premium program for all regular employees.
• Onsite mobility premium.
• Time bank.
• Cellphone fee reimbursements.
• Group insurance plan from the first day of employment, including disability insurance and a telemedicine program.
• Retirement savings plan.
• Annual vacation and sick leave.
• Premium for employee referrals.

Corporate Culture

• A collaborative team that shares its ideas and knowledge.
• Opportunity to mentor the next generation; BBA invests in people and supports development.
• A corporate culture that values expertise.
• Promotion of experts (SMEs), both externally and internally.
• A flexible schedule that combines office presence and working from home.
• A caring environment where everyone’s ideas are listened to and there is no perception of hierarchy.