Senior Strategic Analyst

Snowy Hydro is a dynamic, integrated energy business that has been providing on-demand, reliable energy to Australia for generations. Snowy Hydro owns and operates a powerful combination of generation assets, including the mighty Snowy Mountains Scheme, gas and diesel plants, and contracted wind and solar energy. We also provide electricity and gas to about 1.5 million retail customers through our retail brands Red Energy and Lumo Energy.

A full-time position exists for a Senior Strategic Analyst - Hydro to join the Strategy Team in the Planning and Performance stream.

About the position

The Senior Strategic Analyst - Hydro will lead the ongoing performance and capability of Snowy Hydro's assets and operations and support strategic decision making to ensure we maintain our position and capability in a rapidly changing market. The role adds value by providing strategic perspective and analytical support for decision making processes associated with asset and operations strategy development, risk management and investment decision making. The Strategy Team supports key decision making inputs by linking technical engineering, operations, commercial and work execution strategies. This includes the development of requirements statements, asset life cycle models, and facility strategies to support the overarching Generation Business Plan. This includes extensive stakeholder engagement and front end communication across the business.

Snowy's Hydro portfolio includes 8 Power Stations, 33 Units and ~4.1GW of capacity across the Snowy Mountains, not including the 2.2GW Snowy 2.0 project. This role will be pivotal in informing the strategy for our assets and operations as we manage the challenges of a mixed portfolio of aging and new assets and changing market and operating context.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development of the Generation Business Plan to ensure we're planned and ready to deliver our corporate objectives.
• Lead the development of Facility Strategies underpinned by life cycle and risk models to support capability, opportunities and investment plans.
• Provide a key interface between technical engineering teams, strategy, planning and work execution teams to provide delivery assurance.
• Help the business identity and realise value adding opportunities across our assets and operations.
• Lead broader business decision making through ad-hoc analysis and decision making support.
• Collaborating with others to ensure the Strategic team can extract the information needed for investment decision-making, life cycle costing, and setting long-term delivery strategies.

About the location

This role offers flexibility in location, with the opportunity to be based in our Cooma, Sydney, or Melbourne office (with a strong preference for Cooma). Relocation support will be offered for anyone wanting to relocate to Cooma. You will be supporting and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams across the business to achieve shared strategic objectives.

About you

We're looking for a self-starter with a proven industry background, a firm understanding of asset and risk management and an understanding of high criticality operating and commercial environments. You'll need to be able to blend the need to provide strategic thinking, leading analysis, stakeholder engagement and communication. This is not a technical role however a strong understanding of electrical, mechanical and civil assets in heavy industries is integral.

The person we are looking for should have the following capabilities:

• An accomplished professional with a background (10+ years is ideal) in asset and business strategy, particularly within dynamic sectors like utilities, heavy industries, or mining.
• Broad experience in hydro power generation will be highly regarded.
• A sound technical understanding of generation or similar heavy assets (engineering or trade background preferred)
• A strong foundation in a business-related discipline (such as a tertiary qualification in commerce, engineering, or CA/CPA or equivalent).
• A solid management reporting background alongside demonstrated analytical skills and proficiency in data manipulation.
• Demonstrated leadership, excellent stakeholder engagement, and a collaborative approach.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills are essential, you'll regularly be engaging with stakeholders from all parts of the business.
• The ability to draw meaningful conclusions while working in the grey area.
• Capable of working autonomously and meeting deadlines.

About our workforce

Diversity and inclusion is important to us. Snowy Hydro has a culture of decency and inclusion, with a commitment to the health and wellbeing of our people and a supportive environment to ensure that everyone - regardless of background - feels included and can succeed. At Snowy Hydro, we recognise that we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each individual brings, and we believe in providing an environment that allows that uniqueness to thrive.

Snowy Hydro is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for a role with Snowy Hydro and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an email with your request to the Snowy Hydro recruitment team at [email protected].

If this role sounds like you, apply now!