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Manager - Energy transition - Sydney/Melbourne

Permanent contract
Salary: Not specified
No remote work

Blunomy (formerly Enea Consulting)
Blunomy (formerly Enea Consulting)

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Job description

Your role as a Manager will see you supervise projects, take on business responsibilities and deepen your expertise across energy transition and climate change topics.

Typically, you will work on:

1.       Project management and delivery

  • Leading projects with varying level of complexity depending on your seniority level. You will provide or contribute to providing final recommendations, ensure quality project delivery and assist clients as needed.

  • Supervising project teams of Consultants and Senior Consultants, ensuring their up-skilling, coaching and development.

2.       Business development

  • Managing client relationships to better understand their needs, identifying opportunities for value creation and promoting Blunomy’s expertise and competencies in strategy consulting.

  • Overseeing commercial proposals. This will include proposing and drafting relevant methodologies for project completion.

  • Pro-actively seeking and helping to secure new business opportunities through ongoing client relationships and through building and maintaining professional networks.

3.       Corporate Strategy / Team Management / Internal Development

  • Developing further knowledge/thought leadership and know-how, based on your areas of interest within Blunomy’s global team across our offices to ensure consistent delivery of high-quality work in alignment with Blunomy’s values.

  • Developing corporate strategy, plans, organisation and/or process design and ensure effective implementation, such as in communications, skill development, knowledge sharing and training. 

Example projects:

  • National Bioenergy Roadmap – similarly to the National Hydrogen Strategy, the roadmap has developed short and medium-term actions and demonstrates Australia’s competitive bioenergy markets to grow the sector.

  • Microgrids market study and go-to-market strategy – support to identify the most attractive countries in Asia for C&I microgrids, assess the market opportunity, and develop the go-to-market strategy for the new venture between an international technology supplier and global investment fund. 

  • Australian DER market study and go-to-market strategy – for an energy technology company, analysis of the Australian DER market and its likely evolution in the future, and identification of opportunities for new positionings in Australia’s future distributed smart grid. Subsequent development of a go-to-market strategy within the distributed energy space.

  • Non-network solutions evaluation – a framework for a distribution network service provider for evaluating and optimising non-network solutions. It included a cost benefit analysis of non-network solutions against network augmentation projects to identify capital deferring opportunities.

  • Hydrogen policy recommendation – work with an Australian state government to identify, assess and compare policy mechanisms to support the uptake of the hydrogen industry

  • Biogas market study and strategic opportunities mapping – market opportunity study for bioenergy and biogas in Australia, technical and economic modelling, definition of innovative bioenergy projects, and go-to-market strategy for a leading Australian energy company.

Why work for Blunomy?

You will be joining a passionate group of professionals, aligned in our mission to move towards a decarbonised, circular and inclusive economy. As we are currently in a stage of significant growth, you will be much more than a ‘cog in the machine’, with the ability to make a real and lasting impact across the business. We are focused on finding the right people to journey with us, and to those who do, we offer:

  • Attractive salary packages

  • Ability to participate in the company bonus scheme

  • Hybrid working environment, based in either Melbourne or Sydney

  • Ability to be part of a global team

  • Ongoing learning and development opportunities

  • Weekly team lunch/breakfast

  • Access to our health and wellbeing platform, Moka Care


Preferred experience

About you

  • You are passionate about the energy transition and climate change, with a strong interest for energy, environment and/or sustainable development.
  • Familiarity with Australian energy sector policy, regulation and commercial landscapes. Experience within a strategy consulting or commercial role will be highly regarded.
  • Functional skills: good verbal and written communication, critical thinking, comparative analysis and synthesis capabilities, respect of time constraints, intellectual rigor, curiosity, open mindedness, empathy and team spirit.
  • Technical skills: strong analytical skills, efficient use of MS Excel and PowerPoint.
  • Project management skills: proactive, autonomous and flexible attitude, organisational, planning and time management skills, proven experience of stakeholder engagement and management, both external and internal as a leader and builder of teams.
  • A minimum of 5 years’ experience, in a relevant industry, such as energy or strategy consulting.
  • Bachelor or Masters degree in a relevant field (e.g., engineering, commerce, finance, public policy).
  • To be eligible to apply for this position, candidates must be either an Australian citizen/permanent resident or have ongoing working rights in Australia (mandatory)
  • Fluency in English is mandatory.

Location: Sydney or Melbourne
Work type: Full Time, starting ASAP
Salary: Depending on experience

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