Project Manager - Tech Valley Talent : Job Details

Tech Valley Talent (TVT) has a great long-term role as a Senior Project Manager

DURATION: 36 months

LOCATION: Albany, NY– Remote

NO third parties – direct consultant applicants only

The Market Scaling team's purpose is to identify, vet, and scale technical and non-technical solutions that reduce complexity, implementation costs, and operating costs for building decarbonization, making these solutions competitive with their fossil fuel equivalent, including by supporting the development and advancement of solutions and services that meet stakeholders' needs and requirements, in collaboration with supply chain actors, and by developing interventions to catalyze the connection between a clear market demand and supply. To fulfil this role, the team needs a deep understanding of how key actors in the supply chain (investors, manufacturers, distributors.) make investment decisions, and how to influence these decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree. A degree with a focus on Business, Economics, Finance, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience corporate investment strategy, industrial supply chain development, strategic consulting or market analysis is a strong plus.
• Preferred: • Advanced degree with a focus on: Strategy or finance; New markets; Industrial policy; Or a similarly relevant concentration • Or equivalent experience in: Corporate investment strategy; Industrial supply chain development; Strategic consulting or market analysis
• 10 years- Has in-depth analytical and technical expertise to act as duty subject expert in a technical or programmatic area. Has demonstrated sound judgement based on extensive experience. Has extensive awareness of social, economic and environmental contexts of energy technology of Deployment issues. Recognized outside of client as a known expert in the field.
• Has demonstrated ability to develop and manage major complex projects. Is the creative force behind at least one whole technical or Deployment area within a program. Has demonstrated capability to build/maintain a new multi-project program in at least one program element involving several interrelated projects to meet a technical or program goal. Has demonstrated ability to obtain co-funding or leverage private resources for projects with little or no assistance from the supervisor. Proposes new program directions and technical strategies. Works closely with Program Manager in developing the Program and in developing junior staff.
• Has consistently demonstrated the ability to put required level of program in place. Is Authority resource capable of leading difficult technical and project management work groups and assignments. Prioritizes, manages and self-initiates multiple assignments while consistently taking charge of work groups.
• Has demonstrated ability to act as team leader and thought leader of interdepartmental working groups on complex and/or sensitive assignments. Supervises the day-to-day work and structures assignments to enhance the development of junior staff. Inspires trust and respect at all levels throughout the organization. Has a well developed bureaucratic and policy sense. Is able to identify, distinguish and maintain focus on primary objectives in developing program initiatives or resolving problems.
• Produces effective and purposeful written material that requires no editing. Constructively edits work and mentors junior staff. Effectively represents Authority in difficult or complex negotiations with outside contacts and customers. Presents ideals clearly and concisely in oral and written format. Makes presentations or serves as a panelist or workshop leader at professional meetings, conferences and seminars

Responsibilities

• Translate Client's strategic goals into private-sector business cases
• Provide critical advisory: help determine whether proposed programs or supports (e.g., guarantees, contracts, investment incentives) will meaningfully shift investment decisions made by manufacturers.
• Support initiative design with clear logic, structured deals, and investor-facing offers Identify gaps or weaknesses in initiative design from a business perspective
• Translate aggregated demand and policy levers into investor-relevant metrics
• Break down and structure potential support packages (capital access, guarantees, etc.)
• Shape offers that manufacturers see as credible and beneficial
• Identify where Client support can reduce friction (e.g. insurance, qualification, loss reserves)
• Help change internal ways of thinking, moving beyond default incentive structures and towards outcome-driven, business-savvy approaches
• Support organizational change at Client by challenging old assumptions and unlocking creative paths for impact
• Inform Client teams whether proposed initiatives align with real-world investment logic Strategic Influence and Communication:
• Build a compelling case for supply chain action using both logic and vision and help make Client initiatives credible and compelling to business leaders
• Convince firms to invest in new products that simplify building decarbonization and reduce its cost Build new facilities or scale manufacturing capacity
• Improve or standardize delivery models (e.g. installation pricing, labor networks)
• Ensure messaging is tailored to decision-makers' real concerns