Product Manager - Solar & Battery Storage

Advantage Consulting, s.r.o.

Place of work
Prague, Czechia
Contract type
full-time
Start date
1.05.2021
Wage (gross)
50 000 - 90 000 Kč/month

Information about the position

Job description, responsibilities and duties

- Research, analyze and draft market requirements for existing and new products by communicating with customers and sales teams, by reading other information sources and transferring these requirements into product and roadmap proposals
- Identify key capability or process gaps in current organization to develop, propose, and underwrite solar and battery storage deals
- Follow codes and certifications as they develop; analyze their impact on the market and specific products; make recommendations to management on how to leverage these developments to Product benefit.
- Product lifecycle: Manages new products/system/service launch and life cycle from phase-in to phase-out. Coordinates and supervises the product road map. Defines and oversees recovery plans as necessary.
- Profitability: Responsible for the profitability and life cycle of one product/system/ service line/group by defining product/system/service pricing guidelines and market position.
- Business development: Identify market Opportunities and market frameworks driving revenues from Product segments
- Sales support: Ensures technical and commercial support to Sales force for critical or special negotiations.
- Engineering: Works with Engineering team to propose and evaluate product feasibility projects and roadmaps for new products/system/service and variants

Employee perks, benefits

- 25 days of vacation
- Refreshments in the workspace
- Possibility of Home office
- Oppurtunity to work in a growing industry
- Dynamic and flexible work enviroment

Information about the selection process

Job Summary:
A successful Solar and Storage Product Manager understands how to leverage themselves through partnerships, acquisitions, executing, and outsourcing where necessary. They thrive on building new platforms and working across organizations to deliver customer value and must balance commercial needs with risk mitigation.

Company on whose behalf the position is being filled

Construction industry

About us:
SOLEK is a prominent company in the energetical industry focusing on projetcs, construction and maintanance of solar power plants in Europe and Latin America.
Using renewable resources we approach our future ecologically and responsibly. This is why we build and operate solar power plants.
Our power plants have been operating in Czechia, Slovakia, Romania and Chile.

We are based in Prague and Santiago. Recently we established companies in Cyprus, Colombia and Peru’. We are on the way to pick up the opportunities in other interesting places that fit to the solar energy business. Other countries have been analyzed.

We consider Hungary, South of Europe (Greece, Portugal) and Vientam as additional stars in the photovoltaic energy world. Therefore, we would like to evaluate their potentials in detail and to start our developments there.

Our ambition is to develop a pipeline of greenfield projects of over 1 GWp.

New colleagues willing to join us on the way to materialize our vision are welcome. Join the challenge to develop utility scale projects in a rapidly growing company!

Requirements for the employee

Candidates with education suit the position

University education (Bachelor's degree)

Educational Specialization

Product Management - Solar/Battery Storage

Language skills

English - Advanced (C1)

Experience in the position/sector

5

Number of years of experience

5

Personality requirements and skills

- Minimum 5+ years’ experience in product management, in the energy sector or within the PV industry. Experience in PV Power Electronic, String Inverter technology, Energy Storage is must. Additional experience in PV project or PV system design
- Experience working through contracting complexities including site lease, PPA and EPC, utility interconnection agreements. Strong financial credentials and ability to work with project finance team.
- Successfully developed Utility scale and C&I solar projects/portfolios through sale lease back or partnership flip structures with current market participants.
- Intimate understanding of industry landscape and ability to identify, evaluate and onboard partners to build out the Solar/Storage ecosystem.
- Able to perform project simulation as needed in PVSys or other tools
- Experience interacting with sales and business development teams and B2B sales channels, and working experience in direct sales to commercial and industry business is a plus.
- Excellent technical aptitude and ability to quickly learn detailed information about the existing product portfolio and to communicate and answer technical and product related questions and topics

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Brief description of the company

Recruitment agency providing consultancy and comprehensive services in the field of human resources. To see the offer of current job opportunities visit www.acjobs.cz.

Our recruitment agency provides services and advice on recruitment, Assessment Center and personnel audit.

We look forward to possible cooperation with you.

Number of employees

50-99 employees
ID: 4044666  Datum zveřejnění: 10.3.2021  Spodní hranice mzdy (brutto): 50 000 Kč/month