Data Center Energy Strategic Negotiator, Storage and Flexibility

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**Minimum qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
- 10 years of experience leading energy transaction structuring and negotiations, utility procurement, energy project development or finance/consulting roles.
- Experience structuring and negotiating power agreements across developers, off takers and Transmission System Operator.
- Experience in European power markets, energy storage and flexibility products.

**Preferred qualifications**:

- Experience with onsite, hybrid and off-grid solutions for electricity generation and supply (e.g., behind the meter, private wires, etc.).
- Experience in working on grid connections, congestion issues and other power flow needs.
- Ability to work in ambiguous, collaborative, and fast-paced environments.
- Ability to think outside the box and propose commercially and technically creative solutions.

**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.

In this role, you will combine your financial acumen, industry experience and persuasion skills to 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. You will develop and communicate recommendations based on the analysis.

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**Responsibilities**:

- Lead EMEA regional energy storage and flexibility strategy for Google’s data center portfolio to meet Google energy supply growth efforts and Google's carbon-free energy energy goals in the region.
- Advise 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 relationships with energy vendors, identify new solutions and opportunities for partnership or expansions in collaboration 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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