The Business Development team drives Southern Power’s long-term growth strategy through disciplined acquisitions, development, origination, and strategic partnerships across the energy sector. The Acquisitions team is responsible for sourcing, evaluating, and executing investments in power generation and energy infrastructure opportunities across technologies and markets throughout the continental United States. The team pursues opportunities through competitive and negotiated processes involving developers, utilities, financial sponsors, independent power producers, brokers, and other market participants.
The Business Development Associate plays a central role in advancing opportunities from initial evaluation through transaction execution and closing. Working closely with the Business Development Managers and cross-functional teams, the Associate independently owns assigned workstreams, coordinates due diligence activities, analyzes project economics and valuations, develops recommendations, prepares indicative bid proposals, tracks key milestones, and helps resolve commercial, financial, technical, and other transaction-related matters. The role is primarily focused on acquisitions and may also support origination, development, and strategic partnership opportunities that align with Southern Power’s strategy of owning and operating reliable, cost-effective energy solutions.
The Business Development Associate serves as a key contributor, collaborating with colleagues across Accounting, Finance, Financial Structuring, Project Development, Project Execution, Transmission, Siting, External Affairs, Engineering, Asset Management, Legal, and other disciplines supporting opportunity evaluation and negotiation. The role also proactively contributes to the modernization of Business Development workflows by building, leveraging, and maintaining approved AI, automation, and data tools to improve acquisition tracking, information management, analysis, reporting, and team productivity.
This position provides the opportunity to gain meaningful experience across the acquisition lifecycle while developing relationships with external counterparties and contributing to investment evaluation, indicative bid proposal preparation, due diligence, transaction negotiation, acquisition execution, and post-closing activities.
Southern Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company, is a leading U.S. wholesale energy provider meeting the electricity needs of municipalities, electric cooperatives, investor-owned utilities, and other energy customers. Southern Power and its subsidiaries own 55 facilities operating or under construction in 14 states with more than 12,500 MW of generating capacity in Alabama, California, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maine, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia, and Washington.
Southern Company (NYSE: SO) is a leading energy provider serving 9 million customers across the Southeast and beyond through its family of companies. Providing clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy with excellent service is our mission. The company has electric operating companies in three states, natural gas distribution companies in four states, a competitive generation company, a leading distributed energy solutions provider with national capabilities, a fiber optics network and telecommunications services. Through an industry-leading commitment to innovation, resilience and sustainability, we are taking action to meet customers' and communities' needs while advancing our goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Our uncompromising values ensure we put the needs of those we serve at the center of everything we do and are the key to our sustained success. We are transforming energy into economic, environmental and social progress for tomorrow. Our corporate culture has been recognized by a variety of organizations, earning the company awards and recognitions that reflect Our Values and dedication to service. To learn more, visit www.southerncompany.com.
Southern Company invests in the well-being of its employees and their families through a comprehensive total rewards strategy that includes competitive base salary, annual incentive awards for eligible employees and health, welfare and retirement benefits designed to support physical, financial, and emotional/social well-being. This position may also be eligible for additional compensation, such as an incentive program, with the amount of any bonus/awards subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable incentive plan(s). A summary of the benefits offered for this position can be found here https://seo.nlx.org/southernco/pdf/SOCO-Benefits.pdf. Additional and specific details about total compensation and benefits will also be provided during the hiring process.
Southern Company is an equal opportunity employer where an applicant's qualifications are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other basis prohibited by law.
Together with our subsidiaries, we deliver clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy to our 9 million customers. Our focus is doing so with service excellence.
That means we are leaders who take action to meet our customers’ and communities’ needs while advancing our commitment to net zero emissions by 2050. We create community value through energy, social, economic, and environmental progress.
We do this through electric operating companies in three states and natural gas distribution companies in four. Our family of companies draw on diverse energy sources to create the best mix for our service areas, including electricity, natural gas, solar power, carbon-free nuclear, and other sustainable sources.
We leverage our leading distributed energy infrastructure company and other innovative technology to better serve every customer. Our competitive, national generation company serves wholesale customers, and our family includes a fiber optics network, and telecommunications services.
