Description:
Pacific Partnerships, as a member of CIMIC Group, develops, invests in and manages infrastructure concession assets, supporting clients’ infrastructure investments through financing solutions, technical innovations and life-cycle value, building smarter cities and stronger regions.
Pacific’s role spans the origination, finance, design, construction and long-term operations and maintenance of critical infrastructure including under public private partnership (PPP) model, and renewable energy projects.
Pacific Partnerships is a proactive, collaborative partner to clients, infrastructure users, investors and lenders, building on corporate history responsible for delivering more than 30 nationally significant PPP projects valued at over $70bn over the past 25 years.
Join the team
This is an exciting opportunity to join our growing team, as we look for a Project Development Manager to project manage large infrastructure projects delivered through project financed contract models through to financial close.
This opportunity will draw on your experience in developing large scale infrastructure projects, to both lead a multidisciplinary team to successfully acquire target assets and to ensure that the asset’s development through to ready to build stage is efficient and maximises value to the Group.
The Project Development Manager can be located in Sydney, Brisbane or Melbourne and is a role in which you will:
- Identify and develop PPP and other project financed opportunities
- Support business development opportunities (e.g. market research, competition analysis, new sectors feasibility assessment), including client engagement through market interactive processes, industry briefings and unsolicited proposals)
- Develop and manage relationships with CIMIC opcos (including CPB and UGL) to ensure coordinated alignment on project and business development, identification of pipeline opportunities and consortium formation
- Lead and work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team of development, technical, legal, commercial, finance and submission personnel along with external advisers to efficiently develop project finance opportunities from early stage identification through bidding and ultimately to financial close through management of key workstreams:
- Negotiating commercial outcomes with counterparties
- Hands-on role in managing due diligence workstreams
- Project funding and commercial activities
- Prepare and manage acquisition and development budgets, resourcing plans and schedules
- Risk management framework across project phases ensuring key risks are identified and appropriate treatment and mitigation is implemented for review and approval
- Offer submission and document writing, review and editing as required
- Identify resource and skill gaps within the development workstream and develop strategies to bridge the gaps
- Manage and mentor junior development team members
- Manage the setup of asset development processes and administration systems
- Support the acquisition and development approval process and other internal governance activities.
- Assist with strategy development and refinement for the opportunity
- Assist with the development of commercial and technical solutions for project finance proposals
- Management of client interactions including both verbal and written communications
- Interface with D&C and O&M teams
- Set up and oversee bid management
About You:
We are looking for someone who is flexible, motivated and a quick learner. You might not tick all these boxes, and that’s OK, but you have the drive to succeed. Here are some of the aspects and experiences we are looking for in the successful candidate:
- Relevant tertiary qualification in engineering, commerce, finance or other related discipline
- Relevant and demonstrated 10+ years experience and proven track record of managing complex projects, including exposure to all phases within a project lifecycle
- 5+ years’ experience in private financed greenfield infrastructure in Australia
- Experience in leading, managing, reviewing and understanding multi-disciplinary teams and related output reports / documents and ability to summarise and communicate key outcomes and takeaways.
- Experience in acquisition processes of early to mid-stage infrastructure development assets
- Strong analytical skills, specifically; distilling, synthesizing and translating multiple sources of information into strategic direction and recommended course of action
- Comfortable working with complexity and ambiguity to drive risk and value-based decision making
- Effective written and oral communications skills with experience preparing for, writing, and presenting to Senior Management and Business leaders.
- Capable of operating both independently and collaboratively in projects involving multiple workstreams and stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to negotiate successful project development outcomes with key government and/or non-government stakeholders
- Proven relationship building, people management and stakeholder management skills
What we offer
At Pacific Partnerships we are committed to employing individuals who are aligned with our mission and principles (integrity, accountability, innovation, delivery and safety) and meet the requirements of the role. We recognise the importance of our people and are committed to providing a workplace where everyone can thrive and be at their best every day.
We are committed to workplace diversity and social inclusion, recognising that diverse perspectives creates strength for the business, it makes us better learners, thinkers and collaborators. We encourage applications from women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island People, members of the LGBTIQ+ community, people with disability and from culturally diverse backgrounds.
At CIMIC Group we offer rewarding careers for our people, that’s one of the benefits of having 7 brands and a global operating footprint.
If you join us, as part of a fun high performing team, some of our benefits include competitive remuneration packages, a focus of promoting from within, salary continuance insurance, discounted private health insurance, One Rewards consumer discount and saving platform, dedicated health & wellness programs, supportive people policies and much, much more.