[Hiring] Commercial Agreements & Transactions Manager @Heartland Joule

Role Description

• Engage at the outset of new commercial transactions to understand the overall transaction strategy, key commercial objectives, stakeholder responsibilities, and anticipated execution timeline.
• Partner with project teams, commercial leads, legal counsel, utilities, and counterparties to develop and maintain end-to-end transaction roadmaps that clearly define the sequencing, dependencies, milestones, approvals, and critical path for agreements, securities, collateral, deposits, and other commercial deliverables.
• Identify required commercial workstreams early in the transaction lifecycle and proactively coordinate activities to keep transactions on schedule.
• Develop and maintain integrated transaction schedules that capture agreement negotiations, utility milestones, collateral requirements, payment deadlines, closing conditions, regulatory milestones, and other key commercial obligations.
• Anticipate potential schedule conflicts, bottlenecks, or interdependencies and escalate risks early with recommended mitigation strategies.
• Ensure all stakeholders have clear visibility into upcoming milestones, responsibilities, required decisions, and critical deadlines throughout the life of each transaction.
• Coordinate the lifecycle of commercial agreements from initial drafting through execution, including but not limited to:
  • Utility service agreements
  • Power purchase agreements
  • Interconnection agreements
  • Land purchase and option agreements
  • Easements and right-of-way agreements
  • Engineering and consulting agreements
  • Confidentiality agreements
  • Letters of Intent
  • Letters of Credit
  • Parent guarantees
  • Security deposits
  • Collateral requirements
  • Commercial closing deliverables
• Track status of agreements across multiple counterparties simultaneously.
• Coordinate document exchanges between internal teams, outside counsel, clients, utilities, and commercial counterparties.
• Ensure all required approvals, signatures, exhibits, and supporting documentation are obtained.
• Maintain organized electronic contract files and document repositories.
• Monitor version control and distribution of agreement revisions.
• Develop and maintain detailed trackers for agreements, collateral/securities, milestones, deliverables, and action items.
• Monitor critical dates, deadlines, notice periods, expiration dates, and commercial obligations.
• Drive follow-up with internal teams and external counterparties to maintain project schedules.
• Coordinate recurring project meetings and prepare agendas, meeting notes, and action logs, as they pertain to commercial agreement or securities work streams.
• Provide regular status updates to leadership and clients.
• Identify risks or process bottlenecks and proactively recommend mitigations or improvements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in one or more of the following:
  • Commercial/industrial and/or energy infrastructure development
  • Commercial contract administration
  • Transaction coordination
  • Contract management
  • Commercial operations
  • Project controls
  • Legal operations
  • Paralegal support
• Exceptional organizational skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to manage numerous concurrent projects without losing track of details.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Professional, responsive, and customer-service oriented.
• Highly proficient with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint).
• Comfortable learning new software platforms and document management systems.
• Ability to work independently in a fully remote environment.

Requirements

• Experience supporting commercial transactions involving:
  • Electric utilities
  • Energy companies
  • Infrastructure projects
  • Data centers
  • Commercial real estate
  • Engineering or EPC firms
  • Renewable energy
  • Power generation
  • Transmission or Interconnection projects
• Experience with Bluebeam, monday.com, DocuSign or Adobe Sign, or similar programs.
• Exceptionally detail oriented.
• Highly organized.
• Deadline driven.
• Proactive and self-motivated.
• Comfortable working with executives and external clients.
• Skilled at following up diplomatically but persistently.
• Calm under pressure.
• Able to manage confidential information professionally.
• Process oriented with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Comfortable juggling dozens of active agreements and action items simultaneously.

Benefits

• 401(k) matching
• Location: United States (Required)