Strategy & Strategic Delivery Manager

Ausgrid; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary sacrificing electric vehicles &

Novated leasing

Discounted corporate health insurance

Fitness Passport access

Employee recognition program

Study assistance and mentoring

Gender-neutral parental leave

Aged care support services

Job summary

Assessing complex challenges, you will deliver pragmatic, executive-ready analyses, drive implementation planning, and collaborate with senior leaders to influence outcomes and deliver measurable impact across Ausgrid’s strategic priorities.

Qualifications

• Minimum of five years' experience in strategy, strategy consulting, corporate strategy, business planning or closely related strategic environment.
• Tertiary qualifications in finance, engineering or another relevant discipline.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability, with the ability to break down complex issues and develop practical recommendations.
• Demonstrated experience independently leading strategic projects or workstreams end-to-end.
• Confidence and credibility to work with senior stakeholders and influence outcomes across a complex organisation.
• Excellent written communication and presentation skills, with the ability to distil complex information into compelling Executive-level materials.
• Strong commercial judgement and the ability to balance immediate business priorities with longer-term strategic objectives.
• Experience within energy, utilities, infrastructure or another highly regulated or transforming industry would be advantageous.
• We are open to experience from Inhouse or consulting environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex strategic initiatives and workstreams from initial problem definition through analysis, recommendations and implementation planning.
• Support the development, execution and monitoring of Ausgrid’s broader corporate strategy, translating strategic priorities into pragmatic, executable plans.
• Analyse complex business and industry challenges, bringing structure and clarity to ambiguous problems and developing a clear path forward.
• Develop high-quality strategic analysis, insights, recommendations and presentations for Executive and Board-level audiences.
• Monitor global and local trends and identify developments that may influence Ausgrid’s strategy and future direction.
• Provide strategic advice relating to energy policy, industry disruption and the energy transition.
• Build strong relationships across the organisation, working with senior leaders and influencing stakeholders to achieve successful strategic outcome.
• Contribute to strategic innovation opportunities and initiatives involving potential external partnerships.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Executive communication

Presentation skills

Stakeholder influence

Strategic project leadership

Education

Finance or Engineering degree

Job description

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• High impact Strategy Manager roles, supporting Enterprise initiatives.
• Multiple opportunities | Permanent Full Time
• Competitive salary plus short term incentives , 12% Super + benefits.
• Role is based at Haymarket, Sydney | Hybrid working.

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.

As we continue to grow, we’re in search of exceptional talent to help us achieve our goals. Everyone's job is important here. Our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We're committed to fostering diverse, respectful and inclusive workplaces, and encourage applications from all backgrounds.

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping and delivering Ausgrid’s enterprise strategy at a time of significant transformation across the energy sector.

We are seeking experienced Strategy Manager to lead some of Ausgrid’s most important strategic priorities. These are diverse, high-impact roles with the opportunity to work across initiatives spanning battery and renewable strategy, future grid expansion, regulatory reset strategy and other emerging enterprise priorities.

This isn't a strategy role where you'll simply develop recommendations and hand them over. Reporting to the Senior Strategy Managers y ou’ll take end-to-end ownership of strategic initiatives, moving from initial problem solving and analysis through to developing recommendations, implementation planning and presenting outcomes to senior Executives and the Board. Th e portfolio offers exposure to a broad range of enterprise challenges, giving you the opportunity to move between different strategic priorities and build a deep understanding of the business and the changing energy landscape.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead complex strategic initiatives and workstreams from initial problem definition through analysis, recommendations and implementation planning.
• Support the development, execution and monitoring of Ausgrid’s broader corporate strategy, translating strategic priorities into pragmatic, executable plans.
• Analyse complex business and industry challenges, bringing structure and clarity to ambiguous problems and developing a clear path forward.
• Develop high-quality strategic analysis, insights, recommendations and presentations for Executive and Board-level audiences.
• Monitor global and local trends and identify developments that may influence Ausgrid’s strategy and future direction.
• Provide strategic advice relating to energy policy, industry disruption and the energy transition.
• Build strong relationships across the organisation, working with senior leaders and influencing stakeholders to achieve successful strategic outcome.
• Contribute to strategic innovation opportunities and initiatives involving potential external partnerships.

You’ll Bring

You’ll be an experienced strategy professional who enjoys tackling complex problems, working through ambiguity and turning analysis into clear, commercially sound recommendations.

• A minimum of five years’ experience in strategy, strategy consulting, corporate strategy, business planning or a closely related strategic environment.
• Tertiary qualifications in finance, engineering or another relevant discipline.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability, with the ability to break down complex issues and develop practical recommendations.
• Demonstrated experience independently leading strategic projects or workstreams end-to- end.
• The confidence and credibility to work with senior stakeholders and influence outcomes across a complex organisation.
• Excellent written communication and presentation skills, with the ability to distil complex information into compelling Executive-level materials.
• Strong commercial judgement and the ability to balance immediate business priorities with longer-term strategic objectives
• Experience within energy, utilities, infrastructure or another highly regulated or transforming industry would be advantageous. The role statement identifies previous energy-sector experience as desirable rather than essential.
• We are open to experience from Inhouse or consulting environments.

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.

• salary sacrificing electric vehicles and novated leasing
• discounted corporate health insurance
• access to Fitness Passport
• employee recognition program to bring out each other's best
• study assistance, secondments, training and mentors, whose advice you’ll keep wherever you go
• gender-neutral parental leave to balance work when growing your family
• aged care support services offer expert guidance to help you access care for your loved ones

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.

Applications close Friday 30th October 2026.

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

Thank you to our agency partners but we are not accepting agency submissions at this time.