Head of Power Strategy, Growth & Optimisation

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.

Reporting to the General Manager Power & Electricity Transmission, we’re seeking a Head of Power Strategy, Growth and Optimisation to lead the strategic and commercial optimisation of the power portfolio across the asset life cycle.

This is a pivotal leadership role where you will shape the future of our Power business, driving value from our existing assets while positioning the portfolio for long term growth and transformation. With the flexibility to be based in Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney or Perth, this opportunity offers national impact, executive visibility and the chance to influence how energy is delivered and optimised into the future.

Key Responsibilities

• Bring our Power strategy to life by connecting long term vision with day to day delivery, working closely with operations and project teams to shape and support major growth initiatives.
• Guide how we maximise the value of our assets over their full lifecycle, bringing together insight, experience and curiosity to continuously evolve and strengthen our portfolio.
• Champion the way we use data and asset intelligence, creating clarity and confidence in decision making while helping our teams see opportunities they may not have seen before.
• Create alignment across people, processes and systems, ensuring our Power business is set up to operate simply, effectively and with purpose.
• Partner with stakeholders across the business and beyond to unlock commercial opportunities, balancing risk and reward while shaping a future ready strategy that supports APA’s long term direction.

Your background

• You bring experience developing and delivering power and asset strategies across the full lifecycle, with a focus on performance, reliability and long term value creation.
• You are comfortable operating at the intersection of strategy, operations and commercial delivery, with experience optimising contracts and identifying opportunities to maximise value.
• You have a proven ability to oversee and continuously improve portfolio performance at scale, using data, reporting and structured initiatives to drive outcomes across diverse assets.
• You bring strong commercial and operational judgement, with experience across CAPEX and OPEX planning, scenario modelling and managing risk and opportunity.
• You are confident in building and leveraging asset intelligence and digital capability, using data, analytics and predictive insights to support better decisions and future ready performance.

Working at APA

At APA, we’re committed to fostering a safe and inclusive workplace where you can achieve your best.

We offer targeted career development programs designed to accelerate your career, competitive remuneration, employee benefits, flexible working arrangements, and wellbeing initiatives are all part of what we’ll offer you. Our inclusive parental leave policy offers 18 weeks of leave, including superannuation, to support parents at work and in life.

We employ around 2,000 people across Australia and are committed to building a high-performing, customer-focused organisation where everyone feels safe, valued, and trusted to perform at their best.

We are APA

At APA, we’re taking on one of Australia’s greatest challenges:​ the energy transition.​ We’re not doing it alone. We’re doing it as Australia’s energy infrastructure partner, a role our unique experience and expertise positions us to play.​

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We proudly own, operate and manage a diverse $20 billion portfolio of 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 focused 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.