Network Portfolio Director

Ausgrid; Australia; Remote; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary sacrifice EVs

Novated leasing

Discounted health insurance

Fitness Passport

Study assistance

Job summary

Ausgrid is seeking a Network Portfolio Director to lead a high‑impact portfolio, ensuring a disciplined pipeline of work aligned with priorities and investment objectives. Reporting to the Head of Portfolio & Performance, you will shape delivery strategies across planning, budgeting, risk oversight and stakeholder alignment to secure reliable network outcomes.

You will guide Program and Project Directors, collaborate with Asset Management, Design and Finance, and drive governance, forecasting

Qualifications

• Significant experience managing large, complex portfolios of programs and projects.
• Demonstrated success delivering major asset, infrastructure, utilities, engineering or capital works programs.
• Deep understanding of portfolio management, project delivery fundamentals and governance disciplines.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams through complex and often competing priorities.
• Strong commercial, financial and risk management capability.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.
• The confidence to challenge, improve and implement new ways of working.
• A passion for building high-performing teams and creating a strong delivery culture.

Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee Ausgrid's Network Portfolio, ensuring programs and projects align with organisational priorities and investment objectives.
• Maintain a disciplined, construction-ready pipeline of work across a broad and complex portfolio.
• Drive portfolio performance across scope, budget, schedule, safety and quality outcomes.
• Provide leadership and direction to Program Directors, Project Directors and delivery teams.
• Partner with senior stakeholders across Asset Management, Network Planning, Design, Field Delivery and Finance.
• Drive effective governance, risk management and decision-making across the portfolio.
• Lead portfolio forecasting, commercial management and investment performance.
• Oversee portfolio reporting, estimating capability, cost assurance and provide insights that support upstream decision making.

Job description

• Lead one of Australia’s most critical infrastructure portfolios and help shape the future of energy.
• Competitive salary plus 20% bonus opportunity and 12% Super + additional benefits.

About Ausgrid - we're wired for good

We're the largest distributor on the east coast, which means over two million homes and businesses rely on our good work. We're at the heart of the energy transition, and we're driven by powerful purpose to make electricity accessible for all.It's an exciting chapter for our company with each day bringing a renewed energy to how we deliver, store and use electricity.

About the Role

We are looking for a highly accomplished Network Portfolio Director to join our Portfolio & Performance leadership team to lead our Network Portfolio ensuring a disciplined, prioritised and construction-ready pipeline of work is maintained and delivered in accordance with approved plans, scope, budget, governance requirements and business objectives.

Reporting to the Head of Portfolio & Performance, you’ll provide strategic leadership across portfolio planning, delivery performance, stakeholder alignment and risk management to enable the safe, efficient and reliable delivery of network outcomes. As a key member of the leadership team, you’ll influence how Ausgrid plans, optimises and delivers its network portfolio, ensuring the right work is delivered at the right time to support Ausgrid’s strategic objectives and keep our communities connected.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead and oversee Ausgrid's Network Portfolio, ensuring programs and projects align with organisational priorities and investment objectives.
• Maintain a disciplined, construction-ready pipeline of work across a broad and complex portfolio.
• Drive portfolio performance across scope, budget, schedule, safety and quality outcomes.
• Provide leadership and direction to Program Directors, Project Directors and delivery teams.
• Partner with senior stakeholders across Asset Management, Network Planning, Design, Field Delivery and Finance.
• Drive effective governance, risk management and decision-making across the portfolio.
• Lead portfolio forecasting, commercial management and investment performance.
• Oversee portfolio reporting, estimating capability, cost assurance and provide insights that support upstream decision making.

You’ll Bring

You are a proven portfolio Director with deep experience managing large-scale, asset-intensive portfolio’s programs and projects. We're looking for a leader who has delivered infrastructure, capital works or asset-based programs throughout their career and understands what great project delivery looks like across the project lifecycle. You'll thrive in complexity, think strategically and can turn plans into successful delivery outcomes.

• Significant experience managing large, complex portfolios of programs and projects.
• Demonstrated success delivering major asset, infrastructure, utilities, engineering or capital works programs.
• Deep understanding of portfolio management, project delivery fundamentals and governance disciplines.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams through complex and often competing priorities.
• Strong commercial, financial and risk management capability.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.
• The confidence to challenge, improve and implement new ways of working.
• A passion for building high-performing teams and creating a strong delivery culture.

Life at Ausgrid

At Ausgrid, we go beyond just a competitive salary to offer an exciting range of benefits. From salary sacrificing electric vehicles and novated leasing, to discounted corporate health insurance and access to Fitness Passport, our benefits support your work here, and your life out there. Celebrate success every day with our employee recognition program to bring out each other’s best. Looking to grow professionally? We’ve got you covered with study assistance, secondments, training and mentors, whose advice you’ll keep wherever you go.

We’re proud to offer gender-neutral parental leave to balance work when growing your family. And if you’re caring for elderly parents, our aged care support services offer expert guidance to help you access care for your loved ones. At Ausgrid, it's all about supporting you in every aspect of life. If you require support with your application/reasonable adjustments for the interview process, please reach out to our dedicated Talent [e-mail].

Applications close Friday 11th September 2026

By applying, you may be considered for a Talent Pool to support future opportunities over the next 12 months.