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

• Lead 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.

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

2.       Business development (depending on experience and seniority)

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

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

• Pro-actively seek and help secure new business opportunities through ongoing client relationships and through building and maintaining professional networks.

3.       Corporate Strategy / Team Management / Internal Development (depending on experience and seniority)

• Develop 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.

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

Example projects – Energy

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 the above, 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

About you

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

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience working within or consulting to power industry with a proven track record of strategic consulting and business development expertise. C-suite level network within the TSO/DSO sector

• 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.

• 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 (preferably), or Melbourne

Salary: $140K - $180K + super + bonus

Work type: Full Time, starting ASAP

1. Phone introductions - if you are short-listed, our HR Team will give you a call to have a first chat about your background, experiences and alignment for the role

2. Cultural Fit interview - the second stage of our recruitment process will be an online/in person cultural fit interview with one or two members from our recruitment team.

3. Case study/proposal interview - the third stage of our recruitment process will involve preparing a client proposal to present in an interview format, all information will be provided 1 week ahead of interview time. This interview will also involve a separate case study, you will be provided a data set as well as a full set of instructions within the interview. You will be given 1 hour to prepare and then present back to the interviewers

4. 3rd interview with other key stake holders within the business, as required