Your role as Principal will see you strengthen Blunomy’s market position and achieve growth by building key customer relationships, identifying business opportunities and supervising projects.

1.       Business development

• Overseeing business development within the electricity network industry,

• Developing and maintaining client relationship management, identifying opportunities for value creation, promote, and developing business for the company.

• Managing, supervising, and proposing frameworks and methodologies, as well as developing commercial proposals.

2.       Project delivery

• Lead complex strategic consulting projects for TSOs/DSOs, providing final recommendations, ensure quality of project delivery and assist clients as needed.

• Supervising the costs, quality and client satisfaction on projects driven by Managers and Senior Consultants, and report on project performance.

• Liaising with the client to keep them informed of the progress and to make relevant decisions.

3.       Corporate Strategy / Team Management / Internal Development

• Acting as a Line Manager for Managers, Senior Consultants and Consultants.

• Taking responsibility for supporting and up-skilling the Managers, Senior Consultants and Consultants.

• Contribute to the strategic direction, development of further knowledge/thought leadership, and know-how on the electricity network sector.

• Taking on internal responsibilities such as recruitment, staffing management, training etc.

Example projects – Electricity Networks Some of our recently completed projects focused on Electricity Networks include:

• Define a ten-year vision for transitioning a DNSP to a DSO, developing DSO target state across multiple planning time horizons and the underlying roadmap leading to each target state.

• Project Edith (report viewable HERE), partnering with Ausgrid and Reposit Power to explore an approach to higher levels of DER integration with the network

• Non-network solutions evaluation tool – a framework for evaluating and optimising non-network solutions (battery storage, SAPS, microgrid, demand response etc.), with a cost benefit analysis of non-network solutions against network augmentation projects, to identify capital deferring opportunities for a distribution network service provider.

• Energy storage opportunity study and strategic procurement support: Network battery business model assessment, network locations suitability evaluation, procurement scope definition and market sounding

• DER and load forecasting for multiple network operators: our data science team develops a solution to forecast future load and DER penetration (PV, battery, EV etc.) which is used by major Australian DNSPs for their planning needs.

Example projects – Other

In addition to Electricity Markets, Blunomy have recently completed projects such as:

• 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 – 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. Ongoing support with go-to-market strategy within the distributed energy space.

• 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.

• Biogas market study – 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 large 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

We are looking for a motivated, experienced and passionate person to join our growing team. The right person will have some of the following, and a willingness and ability to learn the rest.

• You are passionate about the energy transition and climate change, with a strong interest for energy, environment and/or sustainable development

• A minimum of 8 years experience working within or consulting to electricity network/energy industry with a proven track record of strategic consulting and business development expertise. C-suite level network within the TSO/DSO sector

• Functional skills: excellent verbal and written communication skills, critical thinking, comparative analysis and synthesis capabilities, intellectual rigor, curiosity, open mindedness, empathy, team spirit and leadership

• Technical skills: strong analytical skills, efficient use of MS Excel and PowerPoint.

• Commercial skills: Strong influencing and leadership skills reflected by the ability to work effectively across a variety of clients, showing a proactive approach to building client satisfaction and strong relationships; demonstrated ability to sell and positively impact revenue growth and strong commercial acumen

• Capacity to manage strategic consulting projects in electricity network/energy industry environments

• Bachelor or Master’s degree in relevant field (e.g. engineering, science, 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)

Location: Melbourne or Sydney CBD

Salary: Depending on experience

Work Type: Full time, starting ASAP