Role Overview
Atura Power is one of Ontario's largest fleet operators of combined cycle natural gas plants, delivering reliable electricity today while investing in the future of energy through battery storage and other emerging technologies.
The Senior Manager, Business Development leads Atura Power’s efforts to advance gas, battery storage, renewable, and low-carbon growth strategies. This role identifies, evaluates, and executes new business opportunities that support Ontario’s economic growth. Responsibilities include developing partnerships, leading commercial negotiations, and driving innovative solutions in thermal and renewable generation, energy storage, and hydrogen. The position collaborates with internal teams and external stakeholders to deliver projects that strengthen Atura Power’s market presence and contribute to sustainability goals. This role requires strategic insight, strong relationship management and a commitment to operational excellence.
Role Responsibilities
Leadership & Organizational Impact
- Provide strategic insights and recommendations to senior leadership on electricity market trends, investment opportunities, and policy implications
- Mentor and develop junior staff within the Business Development team
- Champion Atura Power’s values of safety, integrity, collaboration, and innovation
- Contribute to a culture of accountability, sustainability, and operational excellence
- Lead commercial negotiations and manage relationships with project partners, customers, and suppliers
Strategic Growth & Market Development
- Originate, assess, and prioritize electricity project opportunities aligned with Atura Power’s corporate strategy and Ontario’s energy policy direction
- Lead the development of business cases, feasibility assessments, and investment proposals for electricity generation (wind, solar, natural gas) and storage projects
- Monitor IESO procurements, regulatory developments, and funding opportunities
- Originate, structure and negotiate power purchase agreements (PPAs) with commercial and industrial (C&I) customers and data centres to support the commercialization of new generation projects
- Build and maintain a robust pipeline of projects and strategic partnerships
- Develop and maintain partnerships with Indigenous communities, municipalities, developers, and government agencies
Project Development & Execution
- Lead or support project development activities, including site selection, permitting, stakeholder engagement, Indigenous community engagement, and managing municipal or local support
- Collaborate with internal technical, commercial, and legal teams to structure and advance projects to investment decision
- Oversee due diligence, financial analysis, and risk assessments for potential acquisitions or partnerships
- Ensure projects meet environmental, regulatory, and public-sector compliance standards
Financial Accountability
- Own development budgets for assigned opportunities and ensure expenditures remain aligned with approved business cases and stage-gate authorities.
- Lead project financial and commercial analysis, including capital and operating cost assumptions, revenue structures, project returns, sensitivities and risk-adjusted economics.
- Develop business cases supporting progression from feasibility through development and ultimately FID.
- Work closely with Finance and Commercial teams to validate project economics and investment assumptions.
- Assess the financial implications of alternative technology, contracting, financing and partnership structures.
- Recommend when development capital should be advanced, deferred, redirected or stopped based on project economics, development maturity and risk.
- Maintain disciplined capital allocation across the opportunity portfolio and provide management with clear visibility to development spend, forecast requirements and expected value creation.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Finance, Economics or a related discipline; MBA, P.Eng. or other relevant graduate/professional designation considered an asset.
- 8–12 years of progressive experience in business development, project development, or strategy within the electricity or energy sector required
- Demonstrated experience advancing complex infrastructure or energy projects from origination and feasibility through development, commercial structuring and investment approval/FID.
- Strong knowledge of power-generation project economics and familiarity with natural gas generation, electricity markets, transmission/interconnection and major project development.
- Experience with data centres, large-load customers, behind-the-meter generation, corporate PPAs or other customer-driven energy solutions considered a strong asset.
- Demonstrated capability in financial modelling, investment analysis, business-case development and commercial negotiations.
- Strong project leadership skills with the ability to manage multiple opportunities and coordinate multidisciplinary teams, consultants and external advisors simultaneously.
- Strong executive communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical, commercial and financial issues into clear recommendations.
- Entrepreneurial and commercially oriented, with the ability to identify opportunities, challenge assumptions and make disciplined decisions in an uncertain development environment.
- Strong project leadership skills with the ability to manage multiple opportunities and coordinate multidisciplinary teams, consultants and external advisors simultaneously.
Atura Power strives to embody the values of respect, collaboration, and diversity, and has a strong commitment to employment equity. The diversity of our workforce is at the core of our innovation and creativity. Atura Power seeks qualified candidates who share our commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion. While all qualified candidates are invited to apply, we particularly welcome applications from women, persons with disabilities, First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples, members of visible minorities, and LGBTQ2S+ persons.
Atura Power offers competitive wages and benefits. Our employees are company, community and environmentally focused.
