Portfolio Investment & Performance Lead

The Opportunity

At APA, our purpose is to secure Australia’s energy future. We’re not doing it alone. We’re doing it with our customers and communities as Australia’s energy infrastructure partner, a role our unique experience and expertise positions us to play.

We now have an exciting opportunity available for a Portfolio Investment & Performance Lead to join us in our Transformation Services team in Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane on a full time permanent basis.

Reporting to the Head of Transformation Portfolio, the Portfolio Investment & Performance Lead is responsible for driving strategic value across Operations by aligning planning, investment and performance decisions to measurable business outcomes. Working across both operational and transformation portfolios, you will provide commercial leadership across strategic planning, investment governance, performance management and value realisation, enabling informed executive decision-making and optimising portfolio outcomes

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the annual strategic planning process for the Operations Division.
• Provide commercial oversight of transformation and operational investments, ensuring alignment to strategic priorities.
• Challenge business cases, investment proposals and benefits assumptions to maximise portfolio value.
• Monitor financial and operational performance, identifying risks, trends and improvement opportunities.
• Develop forecasts, scenarios and investment options to support executive decision-making and portfolio trade-offs.
• Track portfolio value realisation and provide insights, recommendations and remediation actions to improve outcomes

Your background

• Experience in strategic planning, commercial finance, portfolio investment, corporate strategy or transformation.
• Strong commercial judgement with the ability to challenge assumptions and influence investment decisions.
• Experience developing and reviewing business cases, benefit frameworks and value realisation plans.
• Demonstrated ability to identify performance drivers and recommend actions to improve outcomes.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and scenario modelling capability, with proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive enterprise-wide decision making.
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and creating structure in evolving environments.

About the Team

Working at APA

At APA, we’re committed to fostering a safe and inclusive workplace where you can achieve your best.

We offer targeted career development programs designed to accelerate your career, competitive remuneration, employee benefits, flexible working arrangements, and wellbeing initiatives are all part of what we’ll offer you. Our inclusive parental leave policy offers 18 weeks of leave, including superannuation, to support parents at work and in life.

We employ around 2,000 people across Australia and are committed to building a high-performing, customer-focused organisation where everyone feels safe, valued, and trusted to perform at their best.

We are APA

At APA, we’re taking on one of Australia’s greatest challenges:​ the energy transition.​ We’re not doing it alone. We’re doing it as Australia’s energy infrastructure partner, a role our unique experience and expertise positions us to play.​

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We proudly own, operate and manage a diverse $20 billion portfolio of assets which deliver essential services to communities and customers across Australia. And we own more than 15,000 kilometres of gas pipelines which deliver energy to households and businesses across every corner of Australia.

As the partner of choice in delivering infrastructure solutions for the energy transition, we’re focused on bundled remote grid energy solutions, electricity and gas transmission, and future energy, including hydrogen and carbon capture and storage.

Our customer focused approach means we understand our customers and offer them reliable, innovative, and cost-effective energy solutions that support their decarbonisation ambitions.

We are committed to securing Australia’s energy future by delivering infrastructure solutions for Australia’s energy transition and supporting the decarbonisation ambitions of our customers and communities.

Join our team and be part of securing Australia’s energy future. We’d love to hear from you.

APA is an equal opportunity employer. The safety, health and wellbeing our people, community and environment a priority. We embrace diversity in our people to ensure our workforce is representative of the communities that we operate in.

Applicants must be eligible to work in Australia to be considered.

This vacancy works with critical APA data, systems or infrastructure and candidates are subject to background vetting (including Police checks) before & during employment.

Role closes on Sunday, 2 August 2026. Role Reference Number: JR4691

APA Group will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies.

We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.