Environmental Investments and Transactions Deal Manager

Cupertino, California, United States
Operations and Supply Chain

Summary

Posted:
Weekly Hours: 40
Role Number:200539658
Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, great ideas have a way of quickly becoming great customer experiences. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it. As an Environmental Investments and Transactions Deal Manager, you will partner with the Environmental Policy and Social Initiatives, Environment & Supply Chain Innovation, and Global Energy & Sustainability teams to lead innovative investments and transactions that are both commercially-sound and highly impactful for Apple’s environmental goals.

Key Qualifications

  • Comfort with independently closing complex energy and/or carbon reduction project investments and/or transactions while facing external counterparties as a deal lead
  • Experience presenting investments and transactions to executives, including the key risks, assumptions, and commercial scenarios
  • Expertise in quantitative modeling, including familiarity with critical assumptions, inputs and outputs of discounted cash flow analysis for infrastructure project financing
  • Experience structuring and closing complex energy, carbon reduction or other project-financed infrastructure transactions involving financial engineering, technical innovation, and complex regulatory compliance requirements across global markets
  • Excellent project management experience, including the ability to flexibly progress multiple transactions simultaneously and lead the various stages of a transaction, such as pre-diligence, structuring, executive approvals, due diligence, negotiation of definitive agreements and closing
  • Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, including building internal and external relationships and partnerships
  • Proven success influencing and driving alignment across cross-functional teams resolving organizational barriers to success, and building consensus during a project lifecycle
  • Excellent verbal and visual communication ability, especially clearly illustrating technical information in a concise way to a non-technical audience
  • Proven strategic and tactical abilities, such as influencing colleagues and improvising to address challenging market conditions

Description

Lead the origination, structuring, due diligence, negotiation and execution of investments and transactions to ensure Apple’s business and environmental objectives are met while minimizing risk Develop a multifaceted understanding of the key barriers to growth facing global markets for renewable energy and carbon reduction, including forecasting industry trends and identifying changes in buyer and seller market dynamics Create conceptual models of investments and transactions to understand key risk factors and risk sharing amongst counterparties Construct financial models of energy and/or carbon reduction project investments and transactions demonstrating extraordinary quantitative ability and ownership of key assumptions, accounting and valuation methodologies Demonstrate quantitative and qualitative communication style to clearly convey risk-reward trade-offs amongst transaction options and help drive leadership decision-making Coordinate amongst Environmental Policy and Social Initiatives, Environment & Supply Chain Innovation, and Global Energy & Sustainability plus operations, procurement, finance, government affairs, public relations, tax and legal teams to champion, drive, and execute investments and transactions

Education & Experience

B.S. degree in related field. MBA preferred 5-10 years of relevant deal experience in infrastructure including banking, advisory, infrastructure fund, or independent power producer

Additional Requirements

  • Genuine curiosity in applied problem solving
  • Well-developed commercial sense

Pay & Benefits