Senior Commercial Advisor - Power

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.

Reporting to the Head of Commercial (West), we have an opportunity available for a Senior Commercial Advisor to join our team supporting APA’s west power generation assets. In this role, you will work closely with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders to deliver strong commercial outcomes across existing assets and contractual arrangements.

You will have the opportunity to contribute to the negotiation and management of commercial agreements, support commercial optimisation initiatives, and help deliver balanced risk outcomes that protect APA’s commercial and operational interests while supporting long term asset performance and growth. This position will play a key role in the commercial performance, optimisation and growth of our WA power portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the commercial execution and day to day management of existing commercial obligations for our WA power portfolio.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders to identify, develop and execute commercial strategies and business improvement opportunities to support value creation.
• Build and maintain strong customer relationships.
• Maintain accurate records, including management of documentation and group mailbox.
• Work closely with legal, and other internal stakeholders to ensure commercial consistency and effective delivery of commercial outcomes.
• Lead the approval process for new contracts or amendments to existing contracts, up to Board level.
• Represent the company in negotiations with customers, suppliers, government departments and other stakeholders.

Your background

• Tertiary qualification in Commerce, Law, Engineering or a related field.
• Experience in a commercial, project development or operations role within the power sector.
• Excellent commercial negotiation skills and a track record of delivering improved financial or operational outcomes.
• Great analytical thinking and ability to interpret technical and financial data to support effective decision making.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence across technical and non-technical teams.

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, 16 August 2026. Role Reference Number: JR4749

APA Group will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies.

We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.