Kōrero mō te tūranga | About the role    As Portfolio Management Lead, you’ll be responsible for shaping and guiding Contact’s portfolio strategy across real-time, short-term, and mid-term horizons. Your focus will be on bringing together market insights, asset information, fuel considerations, and risk perspectives to make smart commercial decisions that optimise portfolio performance.Based in Wellington, day to day you’ll:<ul><li>Develop and lead portfolio strategies that maximise value while balancing risk and compliance requirements.</li><li>Provide clear direction and decision-making frameworks that help trading teams respond confidently to changing market conditions.</li><li>Identify emerging risks and opportunities, making recommendations on portfolio positioning, hedging, and operational trade-offs.</li><li>Integrate electricity, gas, fuel, asset, and operational considerations into a cohesive portfolio strategy.</li><li>Partner closely with generation sites, operational stakeholders, analysts, and other specialists to ensure decisions are informed, aligned, and effective.</li><li>Monitor portfolio performance, understand what is driving outcomes, and use those insights to continuously improve how work gets done.</li><li>Support critical reporting and compliance obligations across the energy market.</li></ul>This is a role for someone who enjoys connecting the dots between strategy and execution. You’ll have the opportunity to influence decisions with real commercial impact while helping create stronger ways of working for the future.

Contact (contact.co.nz ) is one of New Zealand&rsquo;s largest energy retailers and generators. We&rsquo;re committed to building a better New Zealand. We balance our commitment to lowering carbon emissions and producing renewable energy, with maintaining reliable access to energy for our 500,000 customers. We generate electricity from hydro, geothermal and gas and have one of the most flexible generation portfolios in the country.

Portfolio Management Lead

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