Title:  Contract Manager

Contract Manager

We bring the energy – through purpose and people -

Not just through the infrastructure we operate, but through the way we show up for each other, our customers’ and our communities. The future of energy is in our hands. Let’s shape it together.

We’re all about building an energy future to be proud of. Sound like a challenge you’ve been looking for?

We have an opportunity for a highly regarded and experienced Contract Manager to join our team and provide high quality contract administrative support to the upstream commercial contract team on a major Victorian electricity transmission infrastructure project.

You will  facilitate contractual processes and lead team coordination and compliance, while gaining a unique opportunity to experience and shape key electricity infrastructure development.

The role is responsible for administering the systems and processes required to enable optimal contractual outcomes, utilising well established administrative, analytical, technical, commercial and communication skills, to ensure robust contract governance and compliance is achieved.

What you’ll be doing in this role:

• Leading the development, organisation, maintenance and monitoring of contract notifications, contractual tools and upstream contractual obligations.
• Preparing and drafting contractual and commercial notifications to ensure AusNet’s contractual and commercial positions are appropriately protected.
• Identification, assessment, mitigation and quantification of commercial risks, providing analytical support on commercial risks, commercial positions and potential outcomes.
• Establishment, maintenance and organisation of project commercial data, datasets and tools required to evidence project contractual outcomes.
• Analysis of project spend and project data to highlight potential issues, create insights and support contract claims, spend categorization and robustness of governance.
• Maintenance of project commercial / financial compliance documentation, taking inputs from cross‑functional teams and supporting continuous improvement of project practices.
• Identification, assessment, mitigation and quantification of commercial risks, providing analytical support on commercial risks, commercial positions and potential outcomes.
• Coordination with downstream contractual obligations, highlighting areas of misalignment and gaps.
• Providing inputs to key project financial models, review as quality control on outputs, verification of contract quantities and ad‑hoc support for commercial matters through the project delivery phase.
• Build trusting relationships across the AusNet business with various internal stakeholders.
• Demonstrate a continuous improvement culture in management of contracts, commercial processes and reporting

You don’t need to check every box, however we’re looking for a good combination of:

• Tertiary Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Accounting and Law or other applicable discipline.
• 5+ years post graduate commercial and/or project management experience in infrastructure asset development and/or delivery.
• Proven track record in managing contractual processes, including contract claims, notifications and KPI tracking across cross-functional and cross-organisational teams on large scale projects.
• Experience in procurement contacts associated with large scale infrastructure projects, preferably with exposure to Incentivised Target Cost (ITC) contracts.
• Demonstrated ability to articulate and negotiate successful commercial outcomes with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Solid understanding of financial concepts, including time-value-of money.
• Highly adept in Microsoft Office suite; able to independently use software tools to track, analyse and communicate commercial items across broad teams.
• A self starter with strong organisation and administrative skills.
• Excellent ability to create high-quality quantitative analysis (analytical skills) and written materials (visual storying). A highly analytical thinker with the ability to deliver on commercial and/or corporate strategy outcomes
• Excellent written and oral communications skills
• A team player who enjoys working with collaboratively with stakeholders as part of a large, complex infrastructure project

The AusNet experience is all about… 

• Growing your impact: We’ll support you to build your career through real opportunities and strong connections.
• Solving some of the most complex energy challenges of our time: We love unpacking complex challenges in clever ways and looking at things differently.
• Being apart a team that cares deeply about each other: We share in the good times. We support in the tough times. And we’re humble through and through.

We’re committed to building an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce. We believe different perspectives are essential to our success, and we encourage all applicants to apply. If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process, we're happy to discuss how we can support you.

AusNet. We bring the energy. Want to be part of it too? Apply now.