Entity Description

AL CO2 Europe SA, a 100% subsidiary of the Air Liquide Group, brings together CO2 production and distribution activities in Europe and defines the CO2 commercial policy for this zone. This company has 12 production plants spread over 8 countries and serves nearly 3,000 customers, from the food industry to the transport sector.

 

How will you contribute and grow ?

 

The current Energy Transition is transforming the CO2 IM activity landscape (new BioCO2 sources, decarbonation initiatives, Carbon Capture Usage and Storage projects,..) and bringing multiple new opportunities from a green sourcing perspective and new customer requirements. Therefore, our activity needs to be prepared, organized to catch all the opportunities relative to this transformation.


The main mission of the Energy Transition team within the Air Liquide CO2 Europe (ALCO2) entity is to deploy the Energy Transition roadmap validated by the management, including the future sourcing strategy for Europe, and lead the transformation of the European CO2 sourcing portfolio from Fossil to new Biogenic sourced CO2.

 

In this team the CO2 Business Developer is in charge of:

• Strategy of the future CO2 landscape

  • Validate the long term CO2 sourcing needs with ALCO2 Product Management and Air Liquide local representatives based on the development priority areas

  • Follow-up the economics and sustainability of the main types of raw gas existing sources of ALCO2, to identify long term sustainability of their business,

  • Ensure proper competitive intelligence of the existing and future CO2 sources to come (i.e. Update and make available to ALCO2 all information related to CO2 potential sources, LCO2 existing plants and LCO2 future projects for his/her perimeter)

• Deployment of the new CO2 Sourcing Strategy

  • Proactively identify, assess and implement new green sources in coordination with ALCO2 on one side and AL local representatives of each country,

  • Develop, meet, negotiate and sign agreements with new CO2 external prospects (Biogas, Bioethanol, BioSMR and Waste to Energy actors) in Europe to ensure the proper availability of reliable CO2

  • Being responsible and support for the release of the technical documents of the CPR/RIC investment process of the Air Liquide Group  once the project are validated

  • Identify new technologies, applications, markets which could be good candidates for potential CO2 sources, as - for example - New CO2 technology provider.

• Environment and Sustainability

  • Support the Energy transition for the CO2 IM European activity on ad-hoc project (Regulatory watch, Emerging application for CO2 (e-fuels), advocacy actions, etc)

  • Support the CO2 emission reporting system within the ALCO2 Team and in Air Liquide Group

  • Being a strong promoter of the Air Liquide sustainable commitment within ALCO2 Team

• Scope: France, ideally based in St. Priest or Bagneux.

 

Are you a MATCH?

 

Engineer with business development skills

You have a strong appetite for energy transition topics

You are free-thinking, innovative and adaptable

You are a team player and adopt exemplary attitude towards internal and external actors

You are able to prepare and lead a negotiation with external stakeholders

You are able to propose different business models for a same project

You have ability to manage complex projects with several stakeholders and are result oriented

You have robust analytical and financial skills

You have an open minded to social relations and working atmosphere

You know how manage priorities, how remain focused and you are self organized

You have an understanding of CO2 production and distribution functions, costs and functional drivers.

You are fluent in English

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Our Differences make our Performance

At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.