Strategy Advisor

Company Description

Meridian is the largest producer of renewable electricity in Aotearoa and we strive to deliver clean energy for a fairer and healthier world. We only generate electricity from 100% renewable resources – wind, water and sun, because we believe that’s the best way forward for our planet and our communities. We’re doing what we can to help Aotearoa reduce their carbon emissions and support others in our generation communities to do the same. We also retail electricity to more than 365,000 homes, businesses and farms across New Zealand through our Meridian and Powershop brands.

Job Description

What you’ll be doing

As a Strategy Advisor you will be responsible for identifying and steering Generation’s forward and long-term strategies to achieve our objectives. You’ll facilitate our strategic thinking centre. Through broad collaboration across Meridian, you will assemble a powerful coalition committed to identifying and achieving our strategic objectives.

You’ll support the development and tracking of Generation’s priority strategic objectives and implementation plans, as well as facilitating collaboration amongst a diverse range of people to identify strategic options and business decisions.

Other accountabilities include:

• Maintaining thorough understanding of Meridian’s strategic priorities, significant business risks, opportunities and operating environment.
• Conducting & sharing research on industry, market, and external stakeholder risks and opportunities relevant to our strategic objectives and implementation plans
• Building a valuable network inside and outside of Meridian to support & lead strategy development and implementation.
• Identifying, assessing, quantifying and prioritising options and opportunities to deliver on strategic objectives.
• Reporting regularly on the status of Generations strategic initiatives and formulating recommendations to sustain or accelerate progress

Please note, this role can be worked from Wellington, Christchurch, or Twizel.

What you’ll bring

We’re looking for a natural collaborator, with domain knowledge in one or more areas, including engineering, emissions reporting and management, renewable electricity assets and markets, capital intensive investment plans.

You’ll have excellent data collection, research, content management and reporting skills, and well as being skilled at facilitating contribution and consensus amongst a diverse range of subject matter experts and stakeholders.

Other skills and experiences include:

• Experience with analysing complex data from multiple sources.
• Strong ability to lead or facilitate innovation or substantive change.
• Genuine interest in human-centric methodologies for problem solving and associated inclusive processes like Design Thinking or Human Centered Design.
• Confident presenter and producer of easily digestible and impactful reports and presentations.
• Exemplary written and oral communications kills and an ability to establish and maintain valuable relationships with a diverse audience.

Why Meridian?

At Meridian, we value all people. We embrace different ways of thinking, living and working, because we believe diversity benefits us all. It makes our capabilities even stronger. We encourage all our people to feel comfortable bringing their whole selves to work and we’re proud to have a diverse and inclusive workplace. So, no matter who you are, you’ll find it a great place to work.

We value and live by three ‘How to Be’s’: ‘be gutsy’, working together by ‘being in the waka’ and doing the right thing by ‘being a good human’. We work hard and value the importance of connection and fun, whether this be through daily quizzes, morning teas, birthday and cultural celebrations both in person and virtually!

Sustainability sits firmly in our DNA both socially and environmentally. We proudly support KidsCan and the Kākāpō Recovery and work side-by-side with our generation communities to empower and support projects where needed. There are many opportunities to volunteer to any of our partnerships throughout the year.

What we can offer you!

We value work/life balance so our WFH and flexible work options (where possible) make things easier for you and your whānau. We also offer:

• an attractive and competitive salary package that’s reviewed annually, performance-incentive plus discounts from a number of partnerships
• Southern Cross Healthcare - Wellbeing one insurance, funded scheme for eligible employees to give you that extra peace of mind 
• enhanced leave provisions: three company paid days (over the holiday period), enhanced parental leave and options to buy up to 12 days additional leave
• life, trauma and income protection insurance (which we hope you won’t need!)
• enhanced KiwiSaver contributions
• access to the Meridian employee share scheme
• excellent learning and development opportunities, we want you to be the best version of yourself and will help you get there!
• award winning wellbeing programme that provides support whenever and wherever you need it
• employee discounts off your power with Meridian, every bit counts
• a one-off $400 payment to support your work from home set-up (if needed)

All in all, we’re an awesome place to work. If this sounds like you and you want to bring your energy and use your power to make a difference (pun intended), then apply today and tell us why!

To view the full Position Description please Click Here – we’re not necessarily looking for someone who ticks all the boxes (an elusive unicorn), so if you think you have what it takes but don't meet every requirement in the PD, we strongly encourage you to apply! 

If you have any general enquiries, please email [email protected] and one of our team will get back to you. We're committed to becoming more accessible and providing support if needed, please get in touch via email or phone if there are any parts of our process you would like assistance with (process found here meridianenergy.co.nz/careers), we’re more than happy to help. 

Advertising closes on 12th September 2024 (please note this is subject to change).