Job Description

Job description

As a Strategic Negotiator, Economic Development Portfolio Manager, you will support the cost effective development of the client by actively managing the clients performance with economic development agreements and providing data driven insights to inform future strategy and delivery of economic development agreements. This is a dynamic role, working with specific project teams on compliance, legislative analysis and vendor management, while leading important economic development projects.

Job responsibilities

• Support economic development portfolio management and performance monitoring.
• Develop and maintain tooling and processes to scale the organization’s ability to monitor a rapidly growing, diverse portfolio.
• Proactively monitor, identify risks, and mobilize cross-functional working groups to manage the health of individual agreements as well as the broader portfolio.
• Drive previously developed assurance and risk framework and support mitigation of identified control gaps.
• Maintain documentation of agreement requirements and informing impacted internal and external partners of changes to support delivery.
• Distill performance insights into best practices to deliver the drafting and negotiation of legal and commercial agreements.
• Assist with project planning by assessing coverage of existing economic development portfolio.
• Research state and local laws, administrative guidance to refine action plans
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners including, but not limited to, tax, finance, legal, policy, and communications on a variety of economic development matters.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Political Science, Business, related technical discipline, or equivalent work experience.
• 6 years experience managing projects or supporting the planning and development of business agreements.
• 5 years experience in analyzing and verifying economic development, real estate development, or tax compliance to local and state economic policy
• Understanding of aligning tax incentives to real estate development
• Ability to create policy and contract abstracts and track development compliance across cross-functional teams
• Experience with deal structuring and negotiation, auditing, assurance, or similar

Preferred qualifications

• Juris Doctorate, MBA, or other relevant professional certification, such as Certified Public Accountant (CPA).
• Experience within a corporate organization, law firm, accounting firm, consultancy or government agency
• Experience with any of the following: site selection for high-technology, industrial-scale projects; real estate evaluation, acquisition, development, and construction.
• Experience or familiarity with a range of economic development issues such as indirect taxes, economic development policy, or infrastructure development.
• Experience or familiarity with a range of issues such SOC-1/SOC-2 reviews, risk and resiliency frameworks, and audits.
• Ability to work cross-functionally while coming up with commercially and technically creative solutions.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and maintain project timelines.

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