The Opportunity

At APA, our purpose is to secure Australia’s energy future. We’re not doing it alone. We’re doing it with our customers and communities as Australia’s energy infrastructure partner, a role our unique experience and expertise positions us to play.

The Opportunity

Due to an increasing number of exciting power development projects, we are growing the team and have an exciting opportunity for a Commercial Manager to join us in our Commercial Power team in Perth on a full-time permanent basis.

Reporting to the General Manager - Power Commercial, you will lead the commercial workstream for various power development projects incorporating renewables, gas-fired generation and energy storage. You will play a key role in leading commercial structuring, customer negotiations and developing the full suite of project agreements.

Key Responsibilities

• Providing investment recommendations and optimising the commercial structures for new power growth projects (both organic and inorganic)

• Leading commercial negotiations and establishing appropriate risk allocation parameters with customers, network service providers and gas supply partners

• Manage relationships with customers, delivery partners and other external stakeholders

• Ensure that new power opportunities progress in line with APA’s governance requirements and, on completion, are handed over to APA’s operations teams to ensure a seamless customer experience

Your background

• Proven experience in commercial roles in the energy industry, with a strong preference for experience developing electricity projects in Western Australia.

• Strong negotiation skills with a problem-solving attitude.

• Proven ability to drive projects to a final investment decision in a complex stakeholder environment

About the Team

Join a high performing team that works on complex power development projects to help find holistic solutions. Our customers include energy retailers, miners and industrial energy users. We proudly leverage the operational experience and financial strength that comes from APA’s significant fleet of renewable and gas-fired generation assets. Our team fosters a culture of delivering world class solutions while caring for each other.

With the pipeline of growth ahead of us this is an exciting time for the team. We need a commercial leader who is courageous, nimble, and ready to make an impact.

Working at APA

At APA we’re committed to fostering a safe and inclusive workplace where you can achieve your best. We’ll provide you with access to targeted career development programs, competitive remuneration, employee benefits, flexible working arrangements, and wellbeing programs. We also have an inclusive parental leave policy providing 18 weeks leave including superannuation to support parents at work and in life.

We employ more than 2700 people across Australia and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture, where everyone feels safe, valued, and trusted to do their best every day.

We are APA

APA Group is a leading Australian energy infrastructure business.

We proudly own, operate and manage a diverse $26 billion portfolio of gas, electricity, solar and wind assets which deliver essential services to communities and customers across Australia. And we own more than 15,000 kilometres of gas pipelines which deliver energy to households and businesses across every corner of Australia.

As the partner of choice in delivering infrastructure solutions for the energy transition, we’re focused on bundled remote grid energy solutions, electricity and gas transmission, and future energy, including hydrogen and carbon capture and storage.

Our customer centric approach means we understand our customers and offer them reliable, innovative, and cost-effective energy solutions that support their decarbonisation ambitions.

We are committed to securing Australia’s energy future by delivering infrastructure solutions for Australia’s energy transition and supporting the decarbonisation ambitions of our customers and communities.

Join our team and be part of securing Australia’s energy future. We’d love to hear from you.

APA is an equal opportunity employer. The safety, health and wellbeing our people, community and environment a priority. We embrace diversity in our people to ensure our workforce is representative of the communities that we operate in.

Applicants must be eligible to work in Australia to be considered.

This vacancy works with critical APA data, systems or infrastructure and candidates are subject to background vetting (including Police checks) before & during employment.

APA Group will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies.

We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.