Maximilian Woodward

Ambitious BDM with over 6 years of experience in the green energy and e-mobility space. Proven track record of securing and managing strategic relationships with real estate, public authorities, and private sector accounts. A natural communicator with strong negotiation and contract management skills, adept at working across internal and external stakeholders to push large-scale projects forward.

Highly motivated by learning, solving problems, and building relationships. Passionate about playing a key part in the energy transition.

Commercial Associate – Clean Energy Capital – London, March 2026 – April 2025

• Engaged directly with C-suite energy users to scope long-term solar energy partnerships.
• Mapped national commercial energy user trends to identify and qualify power purchase leads.
• Stepped away due to cultural misalignment, seeking a more collaborative, growth-focused environment, and decided to leave this role after being there 6 weeks, as I didn’t feel I fit into the work culture

• Leading development of partnerships with private equity firms to acquire land, to expand bp's ultra-fast EV charging network across the UK and Europe.
• Managing cross-functional teams (legal, finance, engineering) to deliver high-value EV infrastructure projects worth £ 1.5m+ per site, won 5 sites totalling £7.8m in CAPEX spend
• Analysing and building reports of land portfolios to cross-reference with existing charging network performance.
• Automating business processes using Microsoft Power Automate, improving efficiency across the team, and reducing certain task durations from hours to minutes.
• Supporting cost-benefit analysis of the existing forecourt network for EV charging adoption.

• Cultivated relationships with new housing associations and real estate managers for energy efficiency projects.
• Secured 5 new pricing contracts for housebuilder channel (wiring accessories and consumer units), contracts totalling £550k in value for the yeat
• Delivered EV charging projects for multi-family home underground car parks – circa 500 charging sockets.
• Consult 5 organisations for their energy and sustainability goals and bring in relevant SMEs to deliver cross business projects, including: energy efficiency strategy, energy management, workplace optimisation, microgrids, Solar PV, battery storage and heat networks
• Conducted 10+ product hub tours for larger groups of customers, resulting in 3 new accounts spending atleast £50k
• Hit Target for year (£1.1m)

• Acquired 30+ new clients from cold calling strategies, across all market types.
• Increased width of wallet for individual projects by addition of front and back and services for more than half of all projects sold – increasing total margin.
• Supported wider business at more than 10 trade shows and conferences for e-mobility.
• Conducted 10+ site surveys with engineers to understand detailed requirements for EV charging.
• Delivered HV product sales to 2 O+G customers in the UK for EV charging hubs.
• Exceeded targets in each year (110%, £770k and 123%, £953k)
• Building and managing partnerships to enable solutions using 3rd parties
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• Responsible for growing historically low spending accounts through BD activities and answering inbound enquiries.
• Delivered product sales for international customer in Angola via UK export Fund contract.
• Acquired 20+ new clients from cold calling strategies, across all customer types.
• Built up to 25% conversion rate of opportunities measured by Salesforce CRM.
• Fielded 30+ calls and 90+ mins of customer talk time per day.

2.1 BA Hsitory - Swansea University 2018