Network Strategy Lead

**Network Strategy Lead**

Mount Waverley, VIC, AU, 3000

**About us**:
We’re a team that cares about you and your community. United Energy (UE), CitiPower and Powercor (CP/PAL) are essential services, supplying reliable, safe and affordable electricity across Victoria, vital for our customers and a clean energy future.

In designing and delivering these services, our people are united by a real sense of purpose to empower customer choices in ways that are important for our communities and the environment. Using advanced analytics, knowledge built through years of practical expertise, partnerships with leading researchers, and the courage to experiment, our people are proud to be disruptive influencers amongst the electricity industry.

Increasingly, our networks are connecting new large-scale renewable energy generators and integrating technologies like solar, batteries and electric vehicles as customers change the way they generate, use, store and share power. This demand is transforming the electricity market faster than any change we’ve ever seen before. As a result, our people are at the frontline in developing and implementing innovative technologies and solutions necessary for the future of our industry not only in Victoria but globally.

**Your career with us**:
We have a diversity of teams across our business, all contributing to great customer and community outcomes. Our people are our most important asset, and we continually invest in nurturing their capability. Working with us means being fully supported to make the most of new experiences, and to build a career through a range of opportunities to learn from the best and to grow in a safe, inclusive, flexible and collaborative environment.

Our greatest priority is the health, safety and wellbeing of our people and the communities we operate within. This includes their physical safety - ensuring everyone gets home safely everyday - as well as their psychological safety, by ensuring everyone has the resources and support needed to achieve a work-life balance and be the best they can be.

**About the Role**:
A rare and permanent Network Strategy Lead role is now available in our Network Strategy & Non-Network Solutions team, with a core focus on developing the future vision of the business, and being a change partner for the business and favourably shaping the evolution of our networks.

This role will be responsible for identifying, quantifying and driving strategic initiatives and programs. You will lead and deliver high quality commercial analysis for our regulated distribution networks and develop long-term strategic plans that shape and drive our investments and priorities in the face of energy sector disruption.

**What you’ll deliver**:

- Leading and preparing Strategic Network Management Plans (SNMPs) with a 20-year outlook for the CitiPower, Powercor and United Energy distribution networks
- High-quality commercial analysis to assess electrification opportunities, including electric vehicles (EVs), storage and non-network solutions. Prepare Executive level insights of findings
- Deliver bespoke commercial analysis for the Network Strategy and Non-Network Solutions team, and the broader Electricity Network Management Team (ENMT) and Executive Management Team (EMT), including Investment Committee and Strategic Opportunities Committee materials
- Deliver high-quality strategic analysis to inform network developments and opportunities and progress strategic opportunities for our regulated networks
- Maintain analysis of the localised and global opportunities for storage, EVs, SAPS / RAPS, microgrids and other disruptive technologies across our distribution technologies to inform and quantify development of trials and emerging business opportunities
- Prepare proposals, business cases and make recommendations in relation to new and emerging opportunities for regulated distribution networks.
- Operationalise an efficient process to define annual Electric Networks (EN) strategic initiatives and ensure this is prepared in collaboration with the Manager Network Strategy, EN leaders (ENMT, ENLT) and their teams and stakeholders from other departments
- Actively contribute to the development and implementation of Network Strategy (NS) & Non-network Solutions (NNS) business strategies and plans
- Support the Manager Network Strategy and assist other NS&NNS streams and the wider Electricity Networks business unit in scoping opportunities and delivery of analysis, projects, programs or initiatives.

**To succeed in this role you’ll have**:

- Tertiary qualifications in engineering, commercial/finance or related disciplines mandatory
- Higher qualifications in business management or leadership will be advantageous
- Experience of regulated distribution networks, funding models and projects
- Ability to drive commercially focussed outcomes, aligned to strategic objectives from conceptualisation to initiation of new opportunities
- High level of