Manager, Commercial Assets
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- New York, New York, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Principal
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Operations
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, engineering, construction management, or a related field, or equivalent qualification through progressive commercial and contract management responsibilit
- 7+ years in contract or commercial management within energy, infrastructure, or construction, including 3+ years as the accountable owner of contracts or a portfolio where the obligations, the claims,
- Claims taken through to resolution: has personally prepared, filed, negotiated, and closed warranty or contract claims, and can walk through the evidence file that won one.
- P&L or budget ownership with monthly forecasting, variance reporting, and the credibility that comes from never presenting an unexplained number.
- Contract literacy under pressure reads and enforces SLAs, liquidated damages, caps, and exclusions; redlines effectively with counsel and knows which terms are worth the fight.
- Vendor performance management: has converted SLA failures into credits, corrective action, or exit not absorbed them.
Full description
Company
Orenda is on a mission to make the grid more efficient with renewable energy projects and proprietary asset management technology. We develop, build, own and operate battery energy storage projects in dense urban environments to bridge the gap between renewables and electricity consumption.
We are a dynamic, NYC-based company at the forefront of a new industry. We are seeking highly motivated and incredibly talented individuals who wish to contribute to our important mission.
About the Team
Orenda’s Asset Management department is responsible for the safe, compliant, and profitable long-term operation of the company’s entire fleet of Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) assets. Our primary objective is to maximize asset availability, revenue capture, and operational lifespan while managing all contractual, regulatory, and stakeholder obligations. Four functions report to the Director of Asset Management: Operations & Maintenance (site operations), Asset Integrity (engineering), Central Operations (24/7 command center & markets), and Commercial & Regulatory (contracts, compliance and reporting). We own the operating system that makes fleet operations repeatable at scale: engineered maintenance programs, a 24/7 monitoring capability, disciplined handovers from construction, and decision grade reporting.
We partner cross functionally with Development, Pre-Construction, Construction, Asset Technology, and Finance to ensure assets arrive operable and operate profitably.
About the Role
The Manager, Commercial Assets owns each asset's commercial life. As leader of Commercial & Regulatory, you are the commercial and contractual owner of every BESS asset in the fleet: its P&L, its contracts, its warranty claims, its permits and insurance, and its relationships with landlords, the utility, and municipal entities. Where the Site Operations Manager owns what the asset physically does, you own what it earns, what it costs, and what it is owed and you collect.
Reporting to the Director, Asset Management, you build this function from zero: the obligations register that tracks every commitment in every contract, the claims discipline that converts warranty rights into recovered dollars, the procurement and payment controls the department runs on, and the monthly business reporting that leadership steers by. You administer every OEM Long-Term Service Agreement and vendor contract from signature onward, and every third-party maintenance invoice reaches you carrying the Site Operations Manager's technical approval you own the commercial decision to pay. This is the role that makes every counterparty deliver what their contract says.
- This role is ideal for: a commercially disciplined operator who treats an OEM warranty like an asset and a contract like a working tool, and keeps landlords, utilities, and agencies on side without giving anything away.