Senior Commercial Manager

Senior Commercial Manager
- Full-time
- Engagement type: Permanent - Employee

**Company Description**:
**About Us**
If you love working with a diverse group of people who are all about putting the customer at the centre and enabling choice, you’ve found the right company. The energy sector is transforming at a rate of knots and we want you to join us and be part of this exciting transformation that is having an impact on our society, our environment and our future.

We created the advanced metering category in New Zealand and manage over two million advanced electricity and gas meters across NZ and Australia providing data services to our customers. This near ‘real-time’ delivery of big data is enabling new and innovative retail products that give customers large and small the ability to make smarter decisions.

**About the role**
- The location can be Auckland, Wellington, Melbourne or Sydney_

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Commercial Manager to join the dynamic Vector Metering team. As the Senior Commercial Manager, you will ensure sound financial outcomes for the business through the engagement and management of suitable partnerships, vendors, suppliers and customers.

Key responsibilities include:

- Negotiation and drafting of commercial and service delivery aspects of agreements, working closely with legal, finance, and other internal stakeholders.
- Development and implementation of strategies to ensure the successful engagement, execution, management and delivery of obligations for suppliers and customers.
- Maximising sustainable and profitable delivery of all Metering products and services over the long term, whilst managing and mitigating risks.
- Contributing to development of business cases and board papers.
- Provide advice on contractual obligations and understand implications across the supplier and customer portfolio.

**Who we are looking for**

To be successful in this role, you will ideally have:

- A degree in Business or a related field.
- Have 4+ years' proven experience in a commercial role.
- Solid knowledge of performance reporting and financial/budgeting processes.
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills, with ability to communicate clearly and lead negotiations across all levels of an organisation internally and externally.
- Excellent organisational and leadership skills.
- Great customer/supplier focus and unwavering commitment to quality.
- Experience in third party management and complex stakeholder management roles.

**What we can offer you**
We love working together to create a new energy future. If you want to be part of an organisation with a real and tangible purpose, Vector could be the place for you.
We offer
- A fun, flexible and stimulating work environment, full of interesting work being done by smart and innovative people.
- Flexibility, including the choice of working from home a couple of days a week, and flexible start and finish times so you can balance work and life.
- Health and wellbeing support
- Great benefits that reflect the importance of family.

Vector engages a workforce made up of people and teams with diverse skills, values, backgrounds and experiences. We respect and value people who are different from each other, including gender, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, race and religion. We are proud of what we have achieved so far, why wouldn’t you want to work here
- First corporate Living Wage Accredited employer
- First Accessibility Tick employer
- Rainbow Tick accredited
- Winner of three gongs at the 2019 Diversity Awards NZ, including the Supreme Award in 2019 and 2020.

Applications will close 3 May 2026