Senior Contracts Manager - Centralised Energy Services
About this role
- Prepare and negotiate CES's customer agreements with developers and owners corporations
- Handle contractual disputes and issues, judging when to escalate to Legal or resolve directly
- Melbourne based | 11 month Secondment Opportunity
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At Origin, being useful is more than a tagline - it’s how we approach work every day. As a collective, we’re a team that thrives on finding better ways, working together, and owning our impact. From powering homes to delivering award-winning internet and helping to lead Australia’s energy transition. If you’re driven by purpose and excited to be part of something bigger, we’d love to have you on the journey.
About the role:
Centralised Energy Services (CES) delivers embedded electricity networks, centralised hot water and other utility-based solutions into high-density residential and commercial buildings across Australia, supporting close to 500,000 customer accounts across more than 8,000 buildings nationally. The CES Senior Contracts Manager is a critical commercial partner to the CES team, advising, negotiating and developing customer and purchase agreements with developers, builders and owners corporations.
This is a fixed-term 11 month secondment, reporting directly to the Group Manager, CES Commercial. Melbourne is preferred, but Sydney or Brisbane based applications will also be considered.
Why this role matters?
- You'll manage and negotiate CES's customer agreements with developers and owners corporations, from standard terms through to complex, bespoke negotiations
- You'll be the key business partner with the CES sales team on contractual disputes and commercial events, recommending options and negotiating outcomes directly with counterparties
- You'll partner with Legal, Tax and Procurement, briefing in expert advice and keeping contracts moving efficiently
- You'll help reshape CES's standard contract suite to make it more competitive in-market while protecting Origin's commercial position
- You'll provide day-to-day commercial contracts advice to the CES Leadership team
A genuine stretch opportunity to broaden your commercial experience into a fast-growing, strategically important part of Origin Retail.
What will you bring?
- Experience in contracts, commercial or procurement, ideally with exposure to business-unit-side contracting rather than standard-terms-only environments
- Contract literacy - comfortable drafting and reviewing agreements and understanding contract legal concepts (a legal degree is not required)
- Strong negotiation, influencing and stakeholder skills, with a commercial rather than purely legal mindset
- Confidence engaging directly with sales teams, counterparties and Legal
- Sound judgement on when to bring in legal or specialist support versus resolving matters directly
Energy market knowledge is a plus, but not essential – you can build this on the job.
Origin - Where good change happens
At Origin, we’re powered by people who believe in creating change.
We are committed to fostering a diverse, gender equitable workforce, where everyone is welcome, and all applications are evaluated on merit and potential. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people living with disabilities, culturally diverse people, any stage in life, people with intersex variations and people within LGBTQ+ communities, including trans and gender diverse.
Enjoy a challenging career in an exciting industry where you can grow and explore your potential. If you think you have transferable skills, an appetite to learn and would be a great fit, we’d love to hear from you.
Here's a little about us: https://www.originenergy.com.au/about/careers/
Background checks may be required to determine your suitability for this position as part of the recruitment process and during your employment. These checks may include police checks, AusCheck, medical assessment and/or drug and alcohol testing.
Please note unsolicited CVs from agencies will not be accepted.
Origin recognises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples as the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia, and we pay our respects to Elders past, present and future.
Company at a glance
Origin is one of Australia's leading energy companies, exploring, generating and delivering energy to over 4 million customer accounts. Our purpose – getting energy right for our customers, communities and planet – drives everything we do.
As Australia's largest energy retailer, we have an important role to play in providing electricity, natural gas, solar and LPG to Australian communities and work every day to make energy more affordable, more sustainable, smarter and easier for our customers.
We are committed to leading the transition to a cleaner energy future and believe our company, and the energy industry more broadly, should be at the forefront of action to reduce carbon emissions. Origin was the first Australian company to set an emissions reduction target endorsed by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) – aiming to halve our Scope 1 and Scope 2 carbon emissions by 2032, as we work towards achieving net zero emissions by 2050.
Through the Origin Energy Foundation, we support programs that use education to help break the cycle of disadvantage and empower young Australians to reach their potential, contributing more than $27 million to support community organisations since 2010.
View our community guidelines here: http://bit.ly/1GQP6E9
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