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Market Development Manager ANZ - Energy Transition

General Information

Country
Australia
State/Region
Victoria
City
Melbourne
Team
Commercial
Seniority
Expert (4-8 years of experience)
Job Type
Permanent
Hire Type
Full-Time
Work Regimen
Hybrid
Posting Date
30-Apr-2026
Expiration Date
30-May-2026
Company
Enel X Australia Pty Ltd

Description and Requirements

  • Drive impactful changes the business with your expertise within Australia's energy market
  • Continue to grow your career and contribute towards Australia's energy transition!
  • Join a leading global organisation within a growing sector in the energy market
  • Work from our Sydney or Melbourne office

At Enel X Australia, our mission is to help accelerate Australia’s energy transition by unlocking the full value of flexible demand. We partner with organisations to decarbonise and electrify their energy use, while optimising their participation in the energy market through our market-leading Virtual Power Plant (VPP).

Enel X is part of the Enel Group, a global energy leader at the forefront of the transition to clean energy. Enel has been recognised in global sustainability rankings and continues to feature in leading ESG benchmarks for its emissions reductions and investment in the clean energy transition.

Enel X deploys crucial technologies to support the decarbonisation of organisations in Australia, including demand flexibility, onsite renewables and electric mobility to help businesses reduce emissions, manage risk and create new value. At the core of our offering is our market-leading Virtual Power Plant (VPP), which operates and optimises distributed energy assets in real time, 24/7. By combining deep market expertise with advanced technology, we enable customers to unlock new revenue streams, confidently participate in evolving energy markets, and deliver critical flexibility that supports a reliable, renewables-led grid.

What you will do:
You will be responsible for leading Enel X’s market development and regulatory affairs initiatives in Australia (WEM and NEM) and New Zealand with the objectives to open up new opportunities for the business and defend our current participation in energy market mechanisms. This role is important to the short and long term growth of Enel X in the region. Working closely with the commercial and operational teams, your role will be to influence policy and regulatory changes that support Enel X’s existing operations and that drive our future growth. 

Key aspects of the role include:
  • identify, influence and commercialise favourable new market opportunities for the business
  • ensure fair treatment of existing programs are retained within the market rules and applications
  • building strong relationships with market bodies, governments and advocacy partners
  • promoting the interests of Enel X and its customers at stakeholder forums and industry events
  • participating in regulatory consultation processes, including by developing policy positions and preparing submissions
  • leading Enel X’s response to DR capacity tenders
  • ensuring Enel X staff and management are briefed on all relevant developments and engagements
  • providing guidance to Enel X staff regarding market rules and compliance obligations

Key to Success:
In order to succeed in this role, you need to possess most of the following attributes:
  • Highly professional self-starter with an innate motivation to drive change
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills
  • Ability to communicate complex concepts in a succinct manner
  • Exceptional presentation, oral and written communication skills
  • Proven ability to influence key stakeholders and engage decision makers
  • Experience dealing with ANZ electricity regulatory bodies and their processes
  • Deep understanding of the ANZ electricity markets and regulatory frameworks
  • Sound knowledge of the regulatory challenges and opportunities related to demand flexibility, virtual power plants and DER
  • Self-motivated, comfortable managing ambiguity, and able to work independently in a fast-paced environment.


Who we are:
Enel X Global Retail is the Enel Group’s global business line that offers services to accelerate innovation and drive the energy transition. World leader in the sector of advanced energy solutions, Enel X Global Retail manages services such as demand response for approximately 6.6 GW of total capacity globally and 59 MW of behind-the-meter storage capacity installed worldwide. Through its advanced solutions, including energy management and financial services, Enel X Global Retail provides each partner with an intuitive and personalized ecosystem of technological platforms and consulting services, focused on the principles of sustainability and the circular economy in order to provide people, communities, institutions and companies with an alternative model that respects the environment and integrates technological innovation into daily life. Each solution has the power to transform the goals of decarbonization, electrification and digitalization into sustainable actions for all, in order to build a more sustainable and efficient world together.

Trust, Respect, Innovation, Flexibility and Proactivity are the core values of Enel. We are always looking for different perspectives, ideas and points of view. Each person is important to us, independently from their gender, age, nationality, ability or any other form of diversity or specificity. We are a people focused Company and we work to empower all our colleagues through development programs and lifelong learning.
We promote work flexibility recognizing the importance of well-being and work-life balance.

Find out more information on our website: www.enelx.com

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