Head of Portfolio Strategy & Analytics

APA Group; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Flexible working

Wellbeing initiatives

Competitive remuneration

Job summary

APA Group is seeking a Head of Portfolio Strategy & Analytics to influence key strategic and investment decisions across Energy Solutions. You will lead a talented team, shape divisional priorities and provide insights to underpin future growth.

This 6-9 month maximum-term role reports to the General Manager, Portfolio Strategy & Analytics. Location flexibility includes Brisbane, Perth or Sydney with a focus on stakeholder collaboration and delivering actionable plans.

Qualifications

• Relevant tertiary qualification with practical experience in a similar role.
• Experience in strategy, planning or commercial analysis with ability to link long-term goals to practical plans.
• Analytical, data-driven and able to build compelling business cases using market models.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic planning for Energy Solutions and align priorities with long-term vision.
• Provide stewardship over portfolio forums, prioritisation and performance monitoring.
• Develop market models (NEM/WEM) to support strategic prioritisation and decision making.
• Provide analytical support for business cases including technoeconomic modelling.

Skills

Strategy

Planning

Commercial analysis

Data modelling

Benchmarking

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Tertiary qualification

Job description

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, Portfolio Strategy & Analytics, the Head of Portfolio Strategy & Analytics will influence some of the most important strategic and investment decisions across Energy Solutions. Combining strategy, analytics and leadership, you’ll help shape divisional priorities, guide portfolio decision making and provide the insights that underpin future growth. Working closely with senior stakeholders across the business, you’ll play a key role in turning ambition into action while leading a talented team committed to delivering meaningful outcomes.

This is a 6-9 month maximum-term opportunity covering a period of parental leave. Candidates can be based in Brisbane, Perth or Sydney.

Key Responsibilities

• Be at the centre of strategic planning for Energy Solutions, helping guide the annual Enterprise Strategy Planning process and ensuring priorities are aligned to our long-term vision.
• Provide stewardship and continuous improvement over portfolio forums including effective prioritisation, and monitoring of portfolio performance.
• Contribute to the development of key market models including the NEM and WEM to support strategic prioritisation.
• Provide critical analytical support in the development of energy infrastructure business cases including technoeconomic modelling and decision support.
• Build trusted partnerships across corporate functions, bringing people together to align planning activities, drive informed decision making and unlock shared success.
• Champion opportunities within our offsets portfolio, from evaluating procurement options, monitoring performance through to developing offsets’ business cases that align with our growth strategy.
• Lead and nurture a talented team, empowering them to grow, contribute and deliver exceptional outcomes that make a real difference to the business.

Your background

• You will hold a relevant tertiary qualification, supported by practical experience in a similar role.
• You bring experience in strategy, planning or commercial analysis, with a proven ability to connect long term business goals to practical plans that deliver results.
• You’re naturally curious and analytical, comfortable using data, modelling, benchmarking and commercial insights to build compelling business cases and support informed investment decisions.
• Prior exposure to the National Electricity Market (Eastern Australia) and / or Wholesale Electricity Market (Western Australia).
• You have a track record of partnering with stakeholders across complex organisations, providing trusted advice and helping navigate emerging opportunities in evolving markets and regulatory environments.
• You understand how to balance strategic thinking with operational delivery, ensuring initiatives stay on track while continuously improving processes, governance and portfolio performance.
• You’re equally passionate about outcomes and people, bringing the commercial acumen, influencing skills and collaborative approach needed to drive value, build alignment and create lasting impact.

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.

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.

Role closes on Sunday, 25 October 2026. Role Reference Number: JR5126

APA Group will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies.

We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.