Asset Manager

**Who are we?***:
As a leading innovative electric vehicle charging company, DRIVECO’s mission is to bring electric mobility within everyone’s reach. We strive to deliver the most seamless user experience, establish the most reliable network, and utilize renewable energy resources in the pursuit of a greener, more sustainable society. DRIVECO is a network of 10 000 charging points in operation or under construction, and the largest network of charging points open to the public in France, known for its market-leading reliability. Since its inception, DRIVECO’s charging points have enabled the charging of 230 million kilometers driven in electric vehicles, equivalent to 5 500 times around the Earth. With more than 45 000 tons of CO2 avoided, DRIVECO has supplied more than 40 million kWh of electricity since its establishment.

**About the role***:
**Reporting**:
If you share our ambition and feel ready to deliver our strong commitments, join the Asset Management team - you will be directly reporting to William, Head of Asset Management.

**Location**:Paris, HQ.

**Salary**: 45 000 - 50 000 euros yearly, depending on experience

**Job Overview**:
The Asset Manager (AM) will lead the process of **ensuring all commitments are met within the framework of contracts** regarding Driveco’s SPVs and a portfolio of CPO operating stations and the pipeline under deployment.

The AM’s primary objective is to act as a **nexus and coordinator among all teams, ensuring the transmission of information to all relevant stakeholders** in order to achieve the business results as per the Business plan.

Under the responsibility of the Head of Asset Management, the junior AM works closely with the finance, legal, tech and operations teams.

**Your** missions**

**Supervision of the performance of stations in coordination with the Operations Department**:

- Regular monitoring and analysis of the **operational and financial performance** of assets through reports intended to the EXCO and shareholders;
- Market positioning analysis and **competitive analysis**;
- Propose and supervise financial and operational **performance enhancing** (technical, commercial, or marketing) operations;
- Deliver **on-demand** cross-functional, strategic, competitive or regulatory studies or benchmarks;
- Define **pricing** recommendations and deploy the pricing strategy roadmap;
- Support the definition and improvement of all **processes** revolving around stations in operations (Contract management repository, stations’s data-rooms, etc.), ensuring robustness and scalability.

**Budget definition and management, and action plans for EV charging stations and SPVs**:

- Preparation, approval and monitoring of the annual **budget and strategy** (for assets and the SPVs),
- Implementation and follow-up of the **action plan** in accordance with the Business Plan and asset strategy.

**Transversal management of SPVs** in coordination with the Finance, Marketing and Legal Departments:

- Contribute and coordinate financial aspects (revenue collection, fixed and variable leases calculations for landlords, accounts, cash-flow, annual audits, tax filings),
- Monitoring the **SPVs legal and operational commitments**:

- Management of the rights and obligations of the SPVs under various project contracts (EPC, O&M, AM - including identifying negotiations levers to optimize business-cases);
- Business-case definition and renegotiation of Lease agreements with Landlords;
- Support the Deployment team to optimize the stations configuration, deployment priorities, to **maximize value-creation opportunities**.
- Contribute and monitor with all **administrative** (General Assemblies) and **legal** (company law, legal formalities, litigation procedures) aspects.

**Energy management**:
Support the optimization of electricity sourcing (RFP, contract negotiation), hedging strategy, and related initiatives (costs analysis, curtailment, etc.)

**Preferred** Experience**:
**‍ Hard**Skills**:

- Fluency in English. An additional European language would be a plus (French, Spanish, Italian).
- Preferably a finance/economics student/graduate,
- Junior or confirmed professional experience (internships, short contracts, in asset management or front business units, within any sector. Energy/Infrastructure/Real estate experience would be a plus),
- Appetite and skills to process large data-sets with a critical business-oriented mindset,
- Proficiency in financial modeling and advanced IT skills (Excel, PowerBI )
- Detail oriented, rigorous, analytical,
- Organized and adaptable to an organization in constant improvement and change,
- Capable of appropriately addressing every stakeholder of the business chain (internal and external parties),

Environmentally conscious and keen on electric mobility.

**Soft**Skills**:
**Curiosity, outstanding communication skills, diligence and proactiveness** are qualities necessary for the role. **A problem-solving mind set, appetite for human inte