Workstream Leader - Digital Strategy
EnergyAustralia
Date: 2 weeks ago
City: Melbourne, Victoria
Contract type: Contractor
About Us
At EnergyAustralia our shared purpose is to lead and accelerate the clean energy transformation for all. We seek to do this by making energy simple for our customers, meeting their needs by combining their assets into our flexible energy portfolio.
About The Team
The Customer Transformation Team is a program of work that has been established to transform the way the Customer business operates. The challenge for this newly formed team is to ensure our delivery is purposeful & sustainable in the short term and drives a competitive value proposition for our customers in the long term. For our people, this means meaningful work, aligning with EnergyAustralia’s strategy and supporting the business to become more competitive. This is where you come in!
About The Role
We’re looking for a Digital Strategy Workstream Leader to join our Customer Business Unit, on 12-month max term contract opportunity. In this role, you’ll help us shape our Digital future state and, working with our Digital Product owners, develop the roadmap to get us there. You’ll also be responsible for guiding and supporting any team members assigned to your area, ensuring strong collaboration with the Digital Team and the Customer business and delivering successful outcomes. Other aspects of the role include:
To be successful in this role you will have extensive leadership experience within medium to large organisations, which operate in complex and regulated service environments, with a deep understanding of customer needs and knowledge of the market, and a proven ability to guide large-scale initiatives. Other things we’re keen on include:
We’re committed to providing an inclusive culture so our people can bring their whole selves to work and have a sense of belonging. From our PRISM network that creates a positive culture for LGBTI employees to our Reconciliation Action Plan that has commitments to strengthen relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and organisations, it’s a workplace where everyone’s welcome. We offer;
At EnergyAustralia our shared purpose is to lead and accelerate the clean energy transformation for all. We seek to do this by making energy simple for our customers, meeting their needs by combining their assets into our flexible energy portfolio.
About The Team
The Customer Transformation Team is a program of work that has been established to transform the way the Customer business operates. The challenge for this newly formed team is to ensure our delivery is purposeful & sustainable in the short term and drives a competitive value proposition for our customers in the long term. For our people, this means meaningful work, aligning with EnergyAustralia’s strategy and supporting the business to become more competitive. This is where you come in!
About The Role
We’re looking for a Digital Strategy Workstream Leader to join our Customer Business Unit, on 12-month max term contract opportunity. In this role, you’ll help us shape our Digital future state and, working with our Digital Product owners, develop the roadmap to get us there. You’ll also be responsible for guiding and supporting any team members assigned to your area, ensuring strong collaboration with the Digital Team and the Customer business and delivering successful outcomes. Other aspects of the role include:
- Lead the development of our future state Digital Strategy and the roadmap to follow through the transition
- Plan the scope and delivery of your own workstream and assist with planning across other workstreams within the program
- Identify key stakeholders across the business and, in collaboration with the Change team, develop and execute effective communication and engagement plans to support adoption of new ways of working
- Lead the successful delivery of assigned initiatives, ensuring they are completed on time and aligned with program goals
- Monitor progress and track delivery against key milestones, keeping stakeholders regularly informed
- Proactively identify risks and obstacles, and develop practical solutions to address them
- Partner with process owners to ensure new systems and processes are seamlessly integrated into day-to-day operations
- Work with Finance and the Performance Assurance team to track and report on the benefits delivered by each initiative. Provide clear, regular updates to senior leaders
- Promote lasting change by creating reinforcement strategies and celebrating key successes along the way
To be successful in this role you will have extensive leadership experience within medium to large organisations, which operate in complex and regulated service environments, with a deep understanding of customer needs and knowledge of the market, and a proven ability to guide large-scale initiatives. Other things we’re keen on include:
- A strong grasp of best-practice project management, with proven experience across key areas such as scope, time, quality, people, communication, cost, risk, and integration
- A proactive, results-driven mindset with a focus on continuous improvement and delivering outcomes—even in fast-paced, changing environments
- Solid commercial acumen with the ability to identify opportunities, build persuasive business cases, and drive initiatives that deliver measurable value
- Demonstrated leadership experience, with the ability to inspire, develop, and manage teams to high performance
- Excellent negotiation and influencing skills, able to build alignment and secure outcomes across diverse stakeholders
- A high-performance mindset—open to feedback, eager for challenge, and committed to raising the bar
- Strong people and thought leadership, ideally gained in complex or fast-evolving organisations
- A sharp commercial focus with the ability to balance competing business priorities and deliver value
We’re committed to providing an inclusive culture so our people can bring their whole selves to work and have a sense of belonging. From our PRISM network that creates a positive culture for LGBTI employees to our Reconciliation Action Plan that has commitments to strengthen relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and organisations, it’s a workplace where everyone’s welcome. We offer;
- Dynamic Team Culture
- Balance Life and Work through our Flexible Ways of Working
- Discounts on your energy bills for you, your friends and family
- Recharge and relax with two extra days of leave each year (we call them recharge days)
- Volunteer days off to help charities make a difference through volunteering
- We offer 20 weeks paid parental leave that’s completely gender-equal
- State-of-the-art Melbourne office, stunning views only 3–4-minute walk from Southern Cross station
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