Advisory Project Leader/Principal

Aurora Energy Research is seeking an Advisory Project Leader/Principal in Melbourne, Australia. The role involves leading client engagements to accelerate the energy transition, managing projects, and developing new consulting business. Candidates should have significant experience in energy markets and a collaborative leadership style. Responsibilities include project delivery, team development, and building client relationships. The position is based in the Sydney/Melbourne office and not remote.
Department: Advisory

Location: Melbourne, Australia

Description

Joining the advisory team for Australia in our Sydney/Melbourne office, you will collaborate with our clients to help accelerate the energy transition. You will play a key role in all aspects of client engagement: helping identify issues, forming hypotheses, conducting analysis, and synthesizing conclusions into recommendations, while also managing workstreams and projects and driving internal initiatives.

You will be an important senior member of the Australian advisory practice and expected to have experience in the energy markets (ideally in power), either at a consultancy, government body, or industry. Prior experience in supporting and managing a team will be a plus.

You will work in a dynamic, co-operative, and high performing yet supportive and inclusive environment. You will enjoy being trusted with finding solutions, the opportunity to substantially influence significant progress in the energy sector, and to grow into an industry expert under the guidance of Principals with deep experience addressing major strategic issues at the world's leading electricity market modelling firm.

Key Responsibilities

As an Advisory Project Leader/Principal in the Sydney/Melbourne Office, you will be responsible for:
• Leadership: You will balance the delivery of commissioned projects with supporting, coaching and inspiring teams of analysts and energy modelers such that they continuously exemplify Aurora's values, improve their performance capability and develop to their full potential.
• Project delivery: You will develop a clear and detailed understanding of the client's business and expectations, scoping projects and managing them to time and budget. You will also oversee multiple projects simultaneously, providing both internal and external stakeholders with the orientation they need in critical project phases and situations. You will ensure optimal delivery on clients' expectations, including collaborating with project teams to deliver a suitable approach, oversee complex problem-solving, ensuring independent, high quality, rigorous quantitative analysis, interpretation and communication of data insights.
• Developing new consulting business: You will contribute to building and growing close client relationships, and as their trusted advisor, you are the first to whom they turn. Additionally, you will acquire new clients and projects, collaborating with internal stakeholders to respond successfully to inbound requests for proposals, by identifying opportunities through establishing and deepening client relationships and building your external profile as a thought leader within the energy ecosystem. You will help with developing new business areas that will contribute to the rapid growth plans of the Australian practice in the coming years.

What we are looking for

Required attributes:
• You will have considerable relevant experience from a management consultancy or relevant industry.
• You will evidence equal passion about delivering high quality projects and developing your people.
• You will be collaborative by nature and have an empathetic leadership style that demonstrates skill in inspiring, raising performance and developing your teams.
• You will want to use you intellectual and analytical excellence to make real and tangible impacts that influence and guide our clients through the complexities of the energy transition.
• You will thrive on using your personal impact to create the highest quality products for clients combining first class analytics and modelling with clear presentation of insights.
• You will enjoy using your experience and deliberate insight to be responsible for the delivery of projects using advanced quantitative analysis.
• Your strong project management skills will consistently ensure the management and delivery of clients' projects exceeds their expectations.
• You will have a proven track record of winning new business, both through writing compelling proposals in response to client requests, and through proactive business development

Desirable attributes:
• Experience being as a trusted advisor in relation to transactions and financing processes in the renewable energy and energy storage spaces will be considered a plus.

What we offer
• The opportunity to substantially influence and collaborate with key stakeholders in the energy sector
• Direct engagement with clients through Aurora conferences, workshops and webinars
• The opportunity to grow into a publicly visible industry expert
• A fun, informal, collaborative and international work culture
• Private medical insurance
• Access to employee discount platform – Perkbox
• Novated car leasing
• Access to the Aurora Academy, our training programme offering a range of opportunities to develop your skills within the responsibilities of your role and within the wider context of the industry
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), offering a complete support network that offers expert advice and compassionate guidance 24/7/365, covering a wide range of personal and professional aspects

The Company is committed to the principle that no employee or job applicant shall receive unfavourable treatment on grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership and pregnancy and maternity.