_{24th June, 2025}

Location: Melbourne/Morwell
Job Type: Permanent
Organisation: SEC

• Become part of the solution to climate change, accelerating Victoria’s renewable energy transition.
• Join a ‘for purpose’ government-owned energy company that empowers its people to make a difference.
• Opportunity for a Physical Markets Manager to assist with Victoria’s transition to renewable energy.

Do work that makes a difference 

More action is needed to reduce emissions and manage climate change. At the SEC, we are building an enterprising and dynamic team to accelerate Victoria’s transition to renewables and help achieve Victoria’s renewable energy target of 95% by 2035. 

We are working together for renewable, affordable reliable energy for all Victorians.

Your role 
As Physical Markets Manager at the SEC, you will set up, oversee and lead spot market operations for a growing portfolio of projects that will include BESS, renewable generation and hybrid. You will be responsible for optimized trading of assets in compliance with the NER and other regulatory standards by developing and implementing the spot trading strategy and operating model to manage bidding and dispatch of assets utilising third-party autobidding software and a 24/7 trading room service.

The role will also manage spot market exposure of the SEC wholesale portfolio that includes C&I customer load with demand response, financial hedges and offtake contracts. You will be subject matter expert on physical market, data and trading of assets and inform internal stakeholders around risk parameters and new project investments. The role requires leadership skills as over time will involve building and leading a high-performing team that will own and manage the SEC’s physical market strategy and day-to-day market operations.
This is an exciting challenge and opportunity for someone with extensive spot market experience and passion for analyzing markets to build and continuously improve performance of a spot market function.
  
  
  
This role can be based in either our Melbourne CBD office or our regional office located in Morwell.
  
What you will do:

• Strategy Development- shared accountability with GM Trading to develop and implement short-term physical trading strategies, plans and analysis of options to optimize SEC’s overall energy portfolio.
• Spot market operating model – lead implementation of an automated bidding system and 24/7 market trading room provider and develop the operating model for 24/7 oversight of the short-term physical trading including risk management, market compliance, and transaction verification. Manage oversight of the autobidder with capability and confidence to adjust or override the autobidder as needed in response to real-time market changes including price changes resulting from electricity network constraints
• Innovation and Process Improvement – Continuously evaluate operational processes and asset performance, adjusting trading strategies where necessary to implement improvement. Stay abreast of industry trends and technological advancements to keep the company at the forefront of the renewable energy market.
• Compliant energy market operational processes – Lead the AEMO registration application processes for the company’s portfolio of generation and storage assets and ensure all market operations are compliant to regulations including managing any relevant environmental scheme benefits or liability.
• Stakeholder Engagement - Maintain relationships with key industry stakeholders, including regulatory bodies, market operators, metering service providers (for which the role will be the company’s primary responsible person), project owners and other energy sector entities.
• Data Analysis and Reporting – Oversee the analysis of market data to forecast trends, evaluate performance metrics, and prepare detailed reports on market operations. Utilize data insights to propose actionable strategies for enhancing operational efficiency and profitability. Prepare and present reports on physical markets and asset performance suitable for a wide range of internal audience.   
• IT Interface – Work with SEC’s IT team to implement appropriate interfaces between relevant market and project data sources and SEC’s ETRM, auto-bidder and other systems. This would include relevant AEMO data and project SCADA data.

Who you are: 
Must Have:
Your capabilities and areas of expertise that matter most for this role are:

• Deep understanding of energy market operating processes: Demonstrable experience working end to end across physical energy market operational processes in the NEM. Including understanding of bidding and dispatch of scheduled and semi-scheduled generators, regional price dynamics, constraint equations and network outages.
• Demonstrable experience leading market operations function: Greater than 3 years’ experience in an operational leadership or senior role including experience working with outsource partners to deliver against operational performance targets.
• Strong stakeholder management and interpersonal skills: Excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners to collaborate and work in an agile and ever-changing start-up environment.
• Alignment to the SEC ways of working and cultural behaviours: unwavering customer focus, striving for continuous improvement, and demonstrating a proactive can-do, attitude in what is a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• Problem solving skills: Excellent problem-solving skills, a proactive and structured approach to identifying and resolving problems for SEC and for our customers.

Highly Desirable:

• Greater than 5 years working for an Australian energy generator with at least 3 years relevant experience with renewable energy generation and/or energy storage technologies.
• Agile project delivery experience ideally as a product owner, project manager or business owner.
• Experience with automated bidding systems for electricity generation and/or batteries in the NEM
• A detailed level of understanding of AEMO’s MMS systems and generation SCADA systems relevant to physical trading, including knowledge of SQL queries
• Understanding and experience in operationalization of structured battery storage contracts, e.g. virtual toll agreement.
• Experience identifying, scoping and delivering process optimisation opportunities including articulation of business case for change
• Understanding of environmental schemes in relation to physical asset benefit or liability
• Australian retail energy market knowledge: Strong understanding of AEMO procedures, the Victorian regulatory landscape and breadth of retail industry market knowledge.

  
Our empowered workforce 
A career with us means you’ll be joining a new and vibrant ‘for purpose’ government-owned renewable energy company that: 

• Empowers you to influence how we accelerate Victoria’s renewable energy transition and decarbonise our economy.
• Inspires you through meaningful, challenging work in an environment that encourages leadership and an entrepreneurial spirit.
• Supports your growth through career advancement and professional development opportunities.
• Provides hybrid work arrangements, with around 3 days working in Melbourne or Morwell, with flexible work options to meet individual circumstances, providing greater choice and autonomy.

  
About us
We have an exciting and ambitious road ahead with a focus on:  

• Investing in renewable energy and storage projects that accelerate the transition and deliver commercial returns.
• Supporting households to go all electric to reduce their emissions and energy bills.
• Building the renewable energy workforce our energy transition requires.

  
We’re partnering with industry to transform the energy sector, opening the state up for further innovation and investments in renewables. This includes an initial $1 billion towards delivering 4.5 gigawatts of power through renewable energy and storage projects – the equivalent replacement capacity of coal-fired power station Loy Yang A, which is set to close in 2035.

We will also play an important role in helping Victorian households to reduce their energy bills and emissions by offering simple and effective solutions to help them switch to electric.

The energy transformation will create thousands of jobs. The SEC will play a role in attracting and training our future renewable energy workforce, including through the SEC Centre of Training Excellence.

How to Apply
We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We are also deeply committed to building an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity and people with disability, people from the LGBTIQ community, and people from culturally diverse backgrounds. We strive to create a respectful and collaborative workplace culture that allows all employees to thrive.
Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job, but we recognise that there’s no such thing as a ‘perfect’ candidate. At the SEC we offer more than a job. We provide a platform for growth, encouraging you to bring your whole self to your role. However, you identify and whatever your background, please apply if this is a role that excites you.
We are a 2025 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant
For further information and to explore this opportunity further please contact sec.careers@secvictoria.com.au

Please click the ‘Apply Now’ button. As part of the application process, you will need to provide a copy of your resume and/ or a cover letter (optional) addressing how your skills, knowledge and experience will be relevant to this role. Applications close 30 June 2025.

Other things to know

• Applicants must be an Australian citizen, permanent resident or hold a valid work permit to be eligible to apply.
• To receive this information in an accessible format (such as large print or audio) or if you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please reach out to sec.careers@secvictoria.com.au
• The SEC affirms that the collection and handling of applications and personal information will be consistent with the requirements of the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014.

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