Experience

South Australian Chamber of Mines & Energy (SACOME)

• Australia
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President

  • Oct 2019 - Present



Santos Ltd

• Australia
• Oil and Gas
• 700 & Above Employee

• Manager Policy & Regulatory Affairs

  • Nov 2015 - Present

• Strategy, Portfolio & Markets Manager

  • Sep 2014 - Oct 2015



Committee for Adelaide

• Australia
• Think Tanks
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Board Member

  • Jun 2018 - Jun 2022



Origin Energy

• Australia
• Utilities
• 700 & Above Employee

• Group Manager - Retail Pricing & Portfolio Management

  • Oct 2013 - Sep 2014

  Member of the Sales and Marketing leadership team responsible for pricing over 4 million Residential and SME electricity and gas customers in NSW, QLD, SA & Vic. Responsible for growing national revenue and gross margin ensuring a balance of financial and customer targets were met through competitive pricing and discount strategies while maintaining regulatory compliance. Managed an annual discount portfolio and owned all price elements, including how it was represented in all channels.

• Pricing Strategy & Operations Manager

  • Aug 2012 - Oct 2013

  Responsible for the pricing of 4 million electricity and gas customers in NSW, QLD, SA and Vic, with mandate to grow national revenue and gross margin ensuring a balance of financial and customer targets were met through competitive pricing and discount strategies while maintaining regulatory compliance.

• Manager Governance & Operations

  • Mar 2011 - Aug 2012

  Responsible for the management of relationships and the performance of mass market Sales and Marketing functions, Commercial and Industrial sales management and regulatory compliance for 1.7 million newly acquired customers. These services were performed by Endeavour Energy and Essential Energy under the transitional services agreement prior to customer migration to the Origin systems. This role was responsible for driving change, influencing Senior Management on Origin requirements as well as balancing the need of maximizing financial returns with customer outcomes, all resulting in the smooth transition for customers to Origin. Show less

• Customer Strategy, Brand and Communications Lead NSW Acquisition

  • Aug 2010 - Mar 2011

  Member of the core bid team on the sale of NSW Government Retail Electricity and Gas assets. Responsible for broad retail functions including defining the customer acquisition and retention strategies for any acquired retailer. Defined the brand strategy under all retailer scenarios, this included when any brand transition should occur. Post announcement of Origin being successful in acquiring 2 retailers (Country Energy and Integral Energy) Assisted the negotiation on the transitional services agreement and led the Origin completion activities working group dealing directly with Senior representatives from both Country and Integral to ensure all separation plan activities were completed to enable the transaction to complete. Show less

• Manager, Centralised Services

  • Mar 2009 - Aug 2010

  Managed the functions that serviced both the Residential and Business Segments, as well as other stakeholders within the business. These included Pricing, Products, Fulfillment, Sustainability strategy, Projects and Internal Creative Agency. This role was also responsible for setting the blue print for transformation functionality in the new SAP CRM and ISU capability.

• Manager, Strategic Projects

  • Apr 2008 - Mar 2009

  Led a team of Project managers to delivery marketing projects including implementation of fees, review and updating of collateral including Terms and Conditions

• Manager, Retail Strategy

  • Mar 2006 - Apr 2008

  A retail strategy role that was responsible for providing strategic leadership in the development and implementation of Origin’s medium to long term new business initiatives, through investigating investment opportunities for new businesses beyond current portfolio. Examples of initiatives included, Electric and LNG vehicle uptake, solar cities initiatives, review of Origin retail stores, Carbon offset projects, ebusiness strategies.

• Senior Trader Carbon Markets

  • Oct 2002 - Mar 2006

  Managed Origin’s short and long term environmental commodity trading requirements, to meet compliance to State and Federal regulations as well as identifying opportunities to make trading profit. Negotiated long term Power Purchase Agreements (PPA’s) and involved in multiple retail and generation acquisitions.