Senior Commercial Advisor

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.

We now have an exciting opportunity available for a Senior Commercial Advisor (Power) to join our Market Services team in Perth on a full-time permanent basis.

Reporting to the Manager Contracts & Commercial Services, you will play a key role in providing excellent customer service to APA's customers and ensuring contractual obligations are met.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage revenue contracts for APA's thermal generation and renewable energy assets, ensuring commercial outcomes are optimised.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with APA's existing customer base to support long-term partnerships.
• Interpret complex agreements and provide clear, actionable commercial advice in a fast-paced operational environment.
• Maintain and enhance contract management systems and processes, ensuring accurate tracking of and compliance with contract obligations.
• Support internal stakeholders with contract-related insights to enable informed decision making

Your background

• Demonstrated experience in commercial contract management within the energy or infrastructure sectors.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and customer service skills, with a collaborative team approach.
• Solid understanding of power purchase agreements, electricity markets (NEM and WEM) and commercial frameworks.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Legal qualifications or experience are advantageous but not essential.
• High level of attention to detail and a proactive approach to problem-solving.

About the Team

Market Services delivers 24/7 commercial operations and asset operations support, manages short-term revenue and contract obligations, and oversees hydrocarbon accounting and invoicing across APA's power and gas assets.

To help APA Secure Australia's Energy Future, the Operations teams' focus is on Our People, Operational Excellence and Creating Value. We are also making great strides towards achieving our net zero ambition, enabling APA to be world class in energy solutions. 

This is an exciting time for the team, we need people who are 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.