Senior Investment Manager

Are you ready to make a real impact in Australia’s energy transition?

At AusNet, we play a key role in the energy transition and providing essential energy to Victorian households and businesses.

Help us lead the way, while enriching your career with real people who encourage you to bring your best and make real impact – for your career, our communities and Australia’s clean energy future.

About the role

In this role, you will lead a high‑performing team of Investment Managers to deliver AusNet’s most important infrastructure deals. You’ll shape commercial strategy end‑to‑end, driving pricing and contracting decisions, navigating risks, and negotiating directly with Customers to unlock project value and grow our Connections Asset Base.

You’ll be the trusted commercial partner across the business, building strong relationships with Technical teams, Finance, Legal, our Customers and Delivery Partners. From crafting compelling investment cases to steering approvals at executive and board levels, you’ll bring clarity, insight and confidence to complex negotiations while helping deliver critical connections for Victoria’s energy future.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of Investment Managers to deliver major infrastructure deals, driving Connections Asset Base growth through smart pricing, contracting and risk management.
• Negotiate directly with customers to optimise project value, secure long‑term partnerships, and align all parties to balanced commercial outcomes.
• Shape deal structures and commercial mechanisms that align with AusNet’s risk appetite and enable successful execution.
• Develop and present investment business cases and approval papers to executives and the board with clarity and influence.
• Build strong internal partnerships across Treasury, Finance, Legal, BD, Technical and Procurement to enable informed, cohesive deal execution.
• Oversee commercial and pricing analysis to support business cases, supplier negotiations, investment proposals and partnering arrangements.
• Work closely with suppliers and contractors to ensure agreements include appropriate allocation of risk to enable safe, successful project delivery

What You’ll Bring

• Tertiary qualifications in finance, commerce, law, engineering or a related field, with postgraduate study (e.g., MBA) highly regarded.
• 10+ years’ experience leading complex commercial negotiations, ideally within major infrastructure or energy environments.
• Proven success delivering infrastructure investment opportunities, particularly across energy connection projects.
• Strong financial acumen, with deep capability in corporate finance, infrastructure pricing and commercial risk allocation.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to influence senior executives and build trust with diverse internal and external stakeholders.
• Highly analytical, detail‑driven, comfortable being hands-on and leading multidisciplinary teams across finance, technical, delivery and commercial functions.
• Demonstrated ability to negotiate, manage and structure contracts that clearly allocate risk and support successful project delivery.

Please note, we will not be engaging in Recruitment agencies for this role, please apply directly!

A real place to belong.

We celebrate unique voices, refreshing perspectives and diversity in our team. Engage and connect through our social club, wide range of events or by joining one of our Employee Network Groups.

We believe in more than just competitive pay. Here’s what sets us apart:

• Leave: more than typical personal leave and a generous 14 weeks of paid parental leave, with no minimum service.
• Community giving: a paid day to volunteer with our social impact partner, Foodbank, or for a cause that matters to you.
• Perks: we offer all the other perks you’ve come to expect like purchased leave, income protection insurance, novated leasing, corporate discounts, private health cover discounts and more.

As an industry in transformation, we’re excited by the possibilities ahead.

So, if you’re passionate about our purpose and committed to making real progress, bring your energy and join AusNet. Together, we can shape a new way forward.