Business Development Consultant

Task description

The scope of services includes the following tasks, which are performed independently:

WP1:
- Create partnership agreements: Strategic partnering with other companies is a key success criterion for the Project. Identify - from experience and contacts but also from consulting the project team - the potential cooperation partners for the project and propose these suggestions to the Hiring Manager (HM). These partners shall be corporates in the field of bioenergy, engineering refining and technology supply. 
- Prepare (set up agenda, create content slides, moderate) meetings with the potential partners.
- Ultimately draft partnership agreements and choose the appropriate legal form, which can be Memorandum of understanding Joint Development Agreement, Special Purpose Vehicle Agreement or Joint Venture
- Consult Uniper's legal department, other yet-to-be-defined relevant departments and the hiring manager on these draft documents and their progress.

WP2: Manage partnership relation in case, a partnership has been successfully established:
- Organize and prepare the collaborative workstreams
- Organize and prepare meetings
- Organize flow of information
-Actively contribute advice based on knowledge and experience in joint project workshops of the partner and Uniper.

WP3: Concept development and review: Uniper is currently in the feasibility phase of the project creating a feasibility study and site selection study. These studies build the basis for further studies which Uniper will define in the upcoming months: 
-Review these studies, develop key questions and give suggestions for improvement based on knowledge and experience and in discussion with the Uniper project team. 
-Depending on the studies? results create suggestions for modifying/optimizing the concepts presented in the studies. Concept means: site, technology, target market, value chain, consortia partners, business case. Format: Word or PowerPoint.

WP4: Stakeholder Management and Strategic Decision Process: 
- Prepare material (power point presentation), 
- Prepare suggestions, contributing to discussion for internal stakeholder management (key stakeholders are Strategy, Controlling, Risk, Sustainability, Tax, Property Management, Engineering, Legal, Operations departments) in milestone meetings and for Uniper's process of “Strategic decision”, which is an official Uniper process. 

WP5: Draft Public Funding acquisitions: Uniper is considering participating in Public Funding programs which shall subsidize the Project. Uniper is identifying possible funding programs. In case Uniper decides to apply for a public funding program: 
- Draft those parts of the funding application, which are related to the WP 1-4 

WP6: 
- Consult on strategic, technical or business questions on the Project. 
- Provide answers to formally requested strategic, technical or business questions, raised by the HM. The answers will be based on knowledge and experience and provided in written or oral form. 

WP7: 
- Create a bi-monthly short report (Powerpoint Format) presented in the project team's jour fix with the goal inform the project team on the work results achieved.

Uniper provides all necessary information, access to the systems and requirements in advance.