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Senior Director Jobs in Greater Toronto Area, Canada at Peloton Search Partners
Title: Senior Director
Company: Peloton Search Partners
Location: Greater Toronto Area, Canada
Senior Director, Infrastructure – Toronto or Montreal
Peloton Search Partners focuses on professional recruitment across infrastructure, private equity, private credit, venture and growth equity, and capital markets. With 40 years of recruitment experience, we work with sophisticated clients building teams of high caliber talent.
Our Client:
We are partnering with a large infrastructure investor focused on the development and delivery of a prominent infrastructure project in Canada.
The Role:
The Senior Director, Commercial Transaction, is responsible for managing and leading commercial deal structuring and negotiations activities for the project (the "Project"). This position requires effective collaboration with the private development partner ("PDP") – a consortium of private sector partners – to advance the Project delivery strategies and negotiate commercial and contractual terms for the Project’s execution. The role emphasizes teamwork, working closely with cross-functional groups to ensure strategic alignment, address challenges, and maximize value.
The Responsibilities:
- Lead the development of commercial and contractual deal structuring analysis.
- Evaluate project delivery, risk allocation, costs, and long-term benefits.
- Negotiate core PDP contract terms, including funding, payment methods, KPIs, risk sharing, and termination compensation.
- Ensure the accuracy, completeness and timely review of PDP invoices by the technical team and approve invoices from the PDP as per the terms of the PDA.
- Manage, negotiate, and oversee PDP contracts and agreements, including monitoring contractors, subcontractors, operators, lenders, and other external partners.
- Monitor market changes—including interest rates, supply limits, inflation, and escalation—to manage contract risks and inform commercial structuring.
- Provide training and development opportunities to build expertise within the team on contract negotiations and commercial strategy, while also mentoring and coordinating a large and diverse group of external advisors from multiple disciplines.
- Prepare detailed briefings and reports on the status of activities for senior management, senior stakeholders, and the Board of Directors.
The requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, law, engineering, or equivalent. Relevant certification (e.g. CFA) is considered an asset.
- Minimum 12-15 years’ experience in deal structuring and financing for major infrastructure projects, including expertise in public-private partnerships (P3) and collaborative delivery models.
- Experience with public private projects (P3) and/or collaborative models (progressive P3, IPD, Alliancing, etc.).
- Demonstrated detail orientation, strong negotiation, problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
- Proven ability to adapt to changing environments, drive results, and foster collaborative relationships with a range of stakeholders.
- Flexibility is required as the role involves travel between Toronto and Montreal.
Our client is an equal opportunity employer. Candidate must be legally eligible to work in Canada.
We thank all candidates for their interest and application for this opportunity. Only those candidates that most closely meet the requirements of our client shall be contacted for an interview.
Interested parties should contact, Bruce Moore, Managing Partner at Peloton Search Partners.
