Business Development Director

Contour Global•Houston, TX

23d

About The Position

ContourGlobal is seeking a Director of Business Development to lead across a portfolio of power development projects, support and develop the project development team, and help shape new growth opportunities. The role reports to the Vice President of Business Development and is based in Houston, Texas. The Director provides portfolio-level leadership, supports Development Managers in advancing their projects, guides prioritization and resource allocation, and oversees development budgets and resource needs. The role also mentors Development Managers and Associates, provides senior-level support on complex development issues, and helps steward important external relationships. Working across functions, the Director helps resolve escalated issues, communicates portfolio risks and opportunities to senior leadership, contributes to development strategy and opportunity scouting, and supports M&A, project evaluation, investment decisions, and the integration of newly originated or acquired projects. The role also promotes continuous improvement across the Development organization. ContourGlobal is a globally integrated energy company focused on renewable generation, flexible thermal power, and battery energy storage. It describes its workplace as collaborative and agile, offers an Employee Ownership Program, and supports flexible working while making use of shared spaces for teamwork.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, finance, economics, environmental studies, law, or another relevant field; equivalent relevant professional experience will also be considered.
5–10 years of relevant experience in power, renewable energy, energy infrastructure, or related project development, including experience advancing complex utility-scale projects and supporting or leading teams of developers.
Direct experience across several development disciplines, potentially including real estate and site control, permitting, interconnection, governmental and community engagement, commercial development, project economics, engineering, pre-construction, and transaction diligence.
Demonstrated ability to operate across multiple complex projects, identify critical risks and priorities, and allocate attention and resources across a portfolio.
Experience developing, coaching, and supporting project developers or other professionals, with the ability to build capability without unnecessarily taking over their responsibilities.
Strong commercial and development judgment, including decision-making amid ambiguity, incomplete information, competing priorities, and complex tradeoffs.
Demonstrated ability to build and steward productive relationships with landowners, communities, governmental entities, counterparties, consultants, and internal cross-functional partners.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex project information and communicate key issues, alternatives, and recommendations to senior leadership.
Ability and willingness to travel regularly to project sites and communities and to meetings with project stakeholders as required.

Nice To Haves

Experience developing utility-scale power generation, renewable energy, battery energy storage, or other energy infrastructure projects in the United States.
Experience leading or overseeing a portfolio of development-stage projects across multiple markets, technologies, or stages of maturity.
Experience evaluating development-stage acquisitions and M&A opportunities, including development-focused due diligence and integration of acquired projects.
Working knowledge of U.S. power markets, interconnection processes, permitting frameworks, land acquisition, and local stakeholder engagement, with experience in one or more major U.S. power markets.
Demonstrated ability to develop people and build high-performing teams, establishing clear ownership and accountability while coaching others to take on increasing responsibility.

Responsibilities

Provide portfolio-level leadership across multiple power development projects, tracking project strategies, critical paths, risks, priorities, and resource requirements.
Support Development Managers in advancing projects through senior judgment, coaching, and escalation support while maintaining project-level accountability.
Drive portfolio prioritization and resource allocation with Development Managers and cross-functional leaders.
Oversee development portfolio budgets and resource requirements, ensuring spending is prioritized, forecasted, and aligned with project milestones, risks, and value-creation opportunities.
Develop and mentor Development Managers and Associates, enabling them to take on increasing ownership, responsibility, and external relationship management.
Provide senior-level support on complex development matters, including real estate and site control, permitting, interconnection, stakeholder engagement, commercial matters, project economics, and pre-construction and execution planning.
Support key external relationships with landowners, local governments, neighbors, communities, consultants, counterparties, and other project stakeholders.
Enable cross-functional execution and help resolve competing priorities, resource constraints, and escalated issues involving relevant internal functions.
Synthesize portfolio status for senior leadership, communicating material risks, opportunities, tradeoffs, resource needs, and decisions requiring attention.
Contribute to development strategy and opportunity scouting in alignment with company growth objectives and capabilities.
Support M&A and project opportunity evaluation by assessing development maturity, schedule, land, permitting, interconnection, stakeholders, economics, execution risk, and resource needs.
Support investment and portfolio decisions by ensuring development risks, assumptions, resource requirements, mitigation strategies, and value-creation opportunities are understood and reflected in recommendations.
Monitor market, regulatory, policy, interconnection, and competitive developments and translate relevant changes into portfolio strategy and project decisions.
Support integration of newly originated or acquired projects into the development portfolio, establishing ownership, priorities, development plans, and resource requirements.
Drive continuous improvement by turning lessons and recurring project challenges into stronger processes, tools, standards, and ways of working.