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About the job:
Kent is looking for an Offshore Wind Market Director to be based in any of our UK offices.
The Offshore Wind Market Director is a key leadership role and will collaborate with the Offshore Wind Technical Director and our global technical experts in being accountable for growing our activities in this sector, winning work and profitable delivery of our projects.
You will be joining a company with:
1. Over 25 years of track record in Offshore Wind projects and ambitions to substantially grow its global operations in this market.
2. A domestic and global project portfolio with blue chip clients, and a suite of long term framework agreements.
3. A funded investment programme in industry leading technical tools, and innovation.
4. An opportunity to solve the world's energy challenges using your commercial and technical prowess.
The ever-changing conditions of offshore wind industry means we need individuals who can adapt, change and thrive when working in dynamic environments. This position provides the opportunity for a passionate person to contribute to the growing renewables sector, actively helping to combat climate change.
Skills & Responsibilities:
* The over-arching objective is to take the Company established OSW market offer, stabilize it and grow its scale and capability to maximize its contribution to the business and to decarbonizing the world's energy supply.
* To develop trusted and durable relationships with clients, to deeply understand the market and client drivers and translate these into opportunities.
* To develop the OSW strategy, propositions and capability, steering market focused activity using resources from across all company sectors and joint ventures through cross selling to access more of the addressable spend.
* Ensure the full technical capability of the Company is understood, sold and deployed to this rapidly growing sector in core countries.
* To oversee business development and successful bidding to create a sustainable long-term pipeline of work.
* To assess the market and innovate the company services and technical approaches to build a robust and resilient market-facing organisation.
* To assist in the identification and recruitment of key roles.
* To protect and build the company's market reputation for value, excellence, and timely delivery.
* Take accountability for the stabilization, promotion, and growth of the OSW team.
* Build on the sector reputation for the Company, translating market changes and developments into opportunities for the Company.
* Maintain accountability for delivery against client commitments and meeting cost, time and quality objectives.
* Ensure that the Company responds to create new propositions for the market and key clients.
* Develop strategic partnerships with key clients in the market.
* Develop a cross-sector project execution strategy to secure and deliver ever larger projects.
* Drive growth in market share, identifying and engaging with new target clients.
* Proactively identify and develop cross selling opportunities and propositions across the Company.
* Develop the Company brand and reputation, stimulating the market with insights, thought leadership and innovation.
* Be an ambassador for the business; attending and speaking at relevant events, where appropriate.
* Developing alliances and partnerships that drive significant growth in this area.
Your knowledge/skills, education, and experience:
* Degree level or equivalent professional qualification.
* Deep knowledge of the OSW market with a clear view of upcoming opportunities.
* Deep experience and knowledge of the renewable and offshore wind sector.
* Experience in developing consultancy, engineering, owners engineer, asset management and operations and management services.
* Demonstrable client and stakeholder management skills.
* A well-rounded leadership and management background.
* A proven track record of delivery of achieving targets and growing share of the market.
* Proven ability to develop and upsell adjacent services.
Communication:
* Ability to communicate effectively at all levels.
* Excellent interpersonal, organizational and communication skills both verbally and in writing.
Behaviour/ Core Competencies:
* Ability to analyse market potential.
* A hard working and flexible person, who is a team player.
* A high expectation of performance for themselves and other members of the team.
* Customer focused with excellent relationship management skills.
* Self-motivated and able to play a part in leading the larger multidiscipline team.
* Ability to adapt to different cultures and working environments.
HSSEQ:
The Employee shall observe the Health, Safety, Sustainability, Environment and Quality rules of the Company; it's clients and the governing authorities of the host country.
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