Commercial Associate

Commercial Associate

About Us

Jemena is an Australian energy company who owns and operates over $11.5 Billion worth of gas and electricity transportation assets across Australia supplying millions of households and businesses with essential services every day.   

We pride ourselves on our innovative approach, technical expertise, and dedication to safety, quality, and sustainability. Our Group’s over 3000 team members across the East Coast, consistently strive to make a difference in the communities we serve.

About the Role

The Commercial Associate will play a pivotal role in supporting the Business Development Manager and Commercial Managers across a broad range of commercial activities. This position offers significant opportunities for growth, particularly in developing key skills such as strategic thinking, judgement, and commercial negotiation. The ideal candidate is someone eager to enhance their decision-making capabilities, gain deeper insights into market dynamics, and strengthen their ability to influence business profitability.

As a Commercial Associate, you will be responsible for the commercial administration of assigned Pipeline Assets, which includes contract management, customer engagement, market insights, and regulatory compliance. You will work closely with teams across Gas Markets, offering you the opportunity to gain a comprehensive understanding of the sector, optimise asset performance, and contribute directly to business success.

Key responsibilities include:

• Preparing and managing contracts, ensuring all obligations are clearly summarised and documented.
• Analysing financial performance and preparing reports that provide insights for decision-making.
• Organising customer events and creating marketing material.
• Supporting the development of business cases and internal presentations, honing your ability to present and influence stakeholders.
• Contributing to regulatory reporting, ensuring compliance and industry best practices.
• Assisting in negotiations for new business opportunities, developing your commercial negotiation skills.

About You

This role is perfect for someone looking to grow within a dynamic and results-focused environment, with direct exposure to business strategies and profitability. You will have the chance to work on high-impact projects, engage with diverse stakeholders, and develop skills that will be crucial to your long-term career success. Ideally you will exhibit:

• Some experience in either legal, banking, financial, energy, commercial real estate, construction or engineering industries.
• Attention to detail. Either through experience in working with legal documents, financial accounting or drafting engineering procedures with precision.
• Experience in analysis including development and application of insights.
• Interest in contract administration, negotiation and interpretation.
• Financial acumen and a broad understanding of financial management.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills to interact with clients, colleagues, and management.
• Demonstrated ability to manage time efficiently, prioritising tasks and meeting deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Previous exposure to energy markets ideal but not necessary.

Our people are our energy source and we offer meaningful benefits and rewards that work for you. We offer the opportunity for long term career growth as part of our talent development and succession planning process. 

Join our team and make a meaningful impact toward Australia’s “Net Zero” targets through the delivery of critical infrastructure projects and be a part of our journey to shape the future of the energy and utilities industry. 

Diversity & Inclusion

We champion inclusion and are committed to gender equity targets, and increasing First Nations representation in our workforce.  

We welcome applications from all people especially women, First Nations peoples, those with differing abilities, LGBTIQA+ community members, those with neurodiverse abilities, those with culturally diverse backgrounds, and from all age groups. You belong here.  

Recruitment Process

As part of Jemena’s recruitment process, you may be required to undergo pre-employment checks relevant to your role.

Notice to Third Parties: Jemena does not accept unsolicited resumes (or liability associated with fees or costs) from recruitment agencies, search firms or third parties. Interested candidates are welcome to submit their application independently.