Senior Development Manager – Distributed BESS

Our Company

AGP Sustainable Real Assets (AGP) is a global asset management group, investing in, developing and operating sustainable infrastructure.

AGP focuses on deploying capital into platforms, businesses and assets focused around three investment themes:

• Renewable Energy,
• Sustainable Communities & Infrastructure, and
• Natural Capital.

Each AGP platform, business and asset is to be measured and monitored against the positive contribution they make to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) and how they contribute to a net zero GHG emissions future.
Among its various investment platforms, AGP has established AMPYR Energy (AMPYR) which develops, owns and operates renewable energy assets around the world.

AMPYR Australia:

• Owns a 23MW portfolio of C&I solar assets across 130 sites and is developing a 300MW portfolio of distributed sub-5 MW BESS (D-BESS) assets.
• Is constructing the 300MW/600MWh Wellington BESS project along with a rapidly growing pipeline of more than 2500MW of utility energy storage projects.

AGP is committed to conducting its business consistent with its values and expects team members to be aligned with these values: Integrity, Sustainability, Profitability, Collaboration and Growth.

AGP’s head office is in Singapore with operations in Australia, UK, Europe, US and India; a rapidly expanding organisation with over 600 employees.

Responsibilities

• Lead distributed BESS origination and development end-to-end, from site identification through to FID-ready status, managing critical path and sequencing across a portfolio of concurrent sites.
• Operate within and continuously improve the D-BESS development governance framework, including coordinating due diligence inputs, managing stage gate approvals, preparing D-BESS SteerCo and Investment Committee papers.
• Own the D-BESS reporting and pipeline tracker and maintain a disciplined reporting cadence to key internal stakeholders.
• Lead site origination, landowner engagement, option and lease negotiation, and planning and environmental approvals across NEM states.
• Manage AMPYR’s external developer partners across their contracted pipeline.
• Identify and onboard new developer partners where they extend AMPYR’s reach into priority NEM regions or augment internal origination capacity.
• Balance self-originated and partner-originated pipeline to optimise delivery against offtake obligations and platform economics.
• Drive connection applications and negotiations with DNSPs through to offer and execution.
• Structure each project to deliver against AMPYRs D-BESS contracted offtake portfolio, including geographic mix and milestone commitments.
• Resolve key development risks early to maintain a bankable pipeline of projects that meet offtake volume requirements.
• Ensure clean handover to the Delivery function at NTP with a complete project data room.
• Contribute to project financing and platform capital raises through supporting external-party due diligence on the development pipeline.
• Manage HSSE outcomes across development-phase activities, including site access, contractor management, fire risk considerations, and regulatory compliance.
• Coach and develop the Development Manager direct report, including the setting of performance goals, identifying training needs and undertaking performance reviews.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

Essential

• University qualified in engineering, commerce, law, planning, environmental science or a related discipline.
• >8years’ experience in renewable energy or storage development in Australia, with a demonstrable track record of leading projects from origination through to FID or financial close. Sub-5 MW distributed BESS experience strongly preferred with utility-scale BESS experience will also be considered.
• Willingness and ability to travel domestically across NEM states, estimated at up to ~25% of working time.
• Direct experience managing or partnering with developer counterparties, and negotiating option, lease, development and co-development agreements.
• Strong working knowledge of the NEM and the commercial drivers for distributed battery storage.
• Working knowledge of distribution network connection processes for sub-5 MW projects across the NEM, including practical timelines and risks.
• Working knowledge of planning approval pathways across NEM states.
• Strong commercial and financial literacy, including project economics, capex/opex, development budgets, sensitivities, and bankability requirements under project finance.
• Demonstrated people-leadership experience including coaching, developing and holding to account direct or indirect reports.

Desirable

• Experience operating within a Stage Gate or equivalent development governance framework.
• Experience delivering into a contracted offtake portfolio.
• Existing relationships with Australian DNSPs, councils and specialist distributed developers.

Behavioural competencies

• High standard of analytical rigour coupled with commercial pragmatism and a willingness to challenge consensus.
• Strong problem solving ability and delivery focus, maintaining momentum and quality across multiple concurrent workstreams and changing priorities.
• Team focussed with the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional internal team.
• Mainatin high standards of confidentiality, discretion and professional conduct consistently across all settings.
• Confidentiality, discretion and judgment.
• Professional conduct and demeanour.
• Excellent written communication skills, capable of producing concise, decision-ready papers and memos for internal governance forums and capital-raise materials.
• Strong stakeholder management with an ability to build credibility and sustain productive working relationships with DNSPs, councils, landowners, developer partners.

We offer

• Prime Sydney or Melbourne CBD location.
• Competitive compensation.
• Performance based bonus.
• Great opportunities for growth within an international and dynamic organisation.
• Hybrid/flexible working environment.
• A diverse and inclusive workplace.

This job description serves to illustrate the scope and responsibilities of the role and is not intended to be an exhaustive list of duties. The successful candidate will be expected to perform other job- related tasks as needed by the business.