Lead, Energy Strategic Negotiator (Finnish, English)
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 6 years of experience negotiating and structuring agreements or leading business development.
- Ability to communicate in English and Finnish fluently to support client relationship management in this region.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with power transmission and distribution, telecommunications infrastructure, data center technology, industrial-class electrical and cooling technology, or other related technical areas.
- Experience managing utility agreements and energy-related issues.
- Experience in financial modeling and implementing clean energy initiatives.
- Experience in indirect taxes, economic development policy, infrastructure development, agreement drafting, and presentation development.
- Experience with data center real estate markets.
- Ability to comfortably work in ambiguous, collaborative, and changing environments.
About the job
Google's infrastructure needs go far beyond server computers. As Google's products and services scale the globe, the Strategic Negotiation team works behind the scenes to secure infrastructure for Google's future -- everything from underwater cables to physical data center space. As a Strategic Negotiator, you combine your deep market knowledge of a given sector with tech industry savvy to negotiate cost-effective solutions to support Google's infrastructure growth. You'll work with specific project teams on negotiating deals, managing vendor and partner relationships and presenting deal recommendations to our Tech leadership. Your successful negotiations have the potential to save Google millions of dollars in operating costs and impact every part of the business.
Google's infrastructure needs go far beyond server computers. As Google's products and services scale the globe, the Energy and Location Strategy team works behind the scenes to secure electric power for Google's global fleet of data centers.
In this role, you will combine your financial acumen, industry experience and persuasion skills to analyze and communicate trends, and evaluate supply, investment opportunities, and agreements structures. You'll work with project teams to support transactions, energy portfolio planning, and vendor and partner relationship management. Your ability to develop and communicate recommendations based on this analysis, has the potential to save Google millions of dollars in operating costs, drive innovation in the energy industry and impact every part of the business.
Finland: €98000 - €101000 (EUR) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
Sweden: kr1080000 - kr1110000 (SEK) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
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Responsibilities
- Discuss all types of agreements with all types of vendors within a domain. Lead the development of agreements with vendors, landowners, and key suppliers for space and utility services.
- Lead transaction discussion and structuring for energy supply, power infrastructure, and other data center energy contracts, including supply agreements, interconnection agreements, power purchases agreements, partnerships, etc.
- Implement commercial strategies for new power generation resources (either on, near, or offsite), transmission system expansion, and other novel approaches of capacity delivery for new large loads.
- Help set strategy for Google's energy procurement program, including renewable and carbon-free energy procurement in support of Google's clean energy goals.
- Support site specific energy supply growth efforts and datacenter interconnection strategy and execution in partnership with local utilities and transmission system operators (TSOs).
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