Darren Pace Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Responsibilities:• Partner and influence c-suite leadership team to build a shared vision and execute on strategic roadmaps and business growth initiatives.• Collaborate across the enterprise in long term strategic planning including strategy design and development, facilitate approvals, and measurement of benefit delivery.• Lead the financial evaluation of key infrastructure projects to expand and extend Healthscope capacity in strategic geographic health catchments.• Lead the valuation and assessment of potential acquisitions, including detailed financial and scenario modelling, design of integration plans and formation of multi-disciplinary project teams.• Coach Strategy Managers in soft and technical skill development.Achievements:• Led a $72m asset and leasing sale and to fund future development and expansion of a key high-acuity healthcare network.• Identified and implemented $5m in annualised benefits across Healthscope robotics program, delivered by uplifting analytics capabilities and designing and implementing a new governance program.• Developed and implement a ‘markets-education-program’ to standardise market benchmarking across the portfolio and educate customer managers to convert market insights into sustainable results.• Acting in the capacity of GM Strategy & Planning to lead a team of strategy professionals through a strategic planning change.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Responsibilities:• Identify and develop large scale cost optimisation initiatives across Woolworths businesses• Initiative implemention enablement; business partnering to ensure delivery of identifed and agreed initiative benefitsAchievements• Identified and developed initiatives across e-Com and technology business to deliver $10m of annualised business benefits

Sydney

Responsibilities:• Lead formulation and implementation of strategic planning initiatives across Alinta's broad retail, wholesale and corporate energy businesses• Project manage enterprise transformation initiatives in partnership with PMO• Management of the Capital Steering Committee reporting to the CFOAchievements: • Negotiated the sale of a key energy business unit to unlock $50M of capital for new growth projects• Secured Board approval to implement a series of complex technology and process changes across Alinta’s operational businesses. Detailed scoping removed 25% of expected spend while delivering the same quality of system and process improvements• Re-engineered Alinta's approach to governance over its $3B capital project pipeline to introduce consistency in opportunity evaluation and improve steering committee decision making• Implemented an employee innovation program to allocate $10M of capital in new business, continuous improvement and optimisation projects

Sydney, Australia

Responsibilities:• Report to the Executive Director, Wholesale and Trading to lead the Energy Spot-Market Trading team• Manage day-to-day energy trading operations, including contract management, customer engagement and regulatory compliance• Take ownership of the energy trading P&L to deliver financial and production targets and maximise asset profitability • Talent development of energy spot-market trading teamAchievements: • Implemented summer trading initiatives to add $20M in P&L gross margin over summer of 2015/16• Implemented L&D and CI initiatives to improve team performance and culture. Initiatives contributed to a reduction in turnover by 50%. These results were recognised with Alinta's 2015 Leadership Excellence Award

Sydney, Australia

Responsibilities:• Lead market, economic and financial analysis within Alinta Energy's Wholesale Group• Collaborate with the Commercial Manager – Gas Marketing in major contract negotiationsAchievements:• Negotiated a major gas supply transaction (face value +$200M) to a major international LNG producer to add $8M p.a EBITDA over a six year tenure• Led analysis underpinning a $13M investment to redefine the operating strategy of Alinta's Queensland power generation assets and improve annual EBITDA by $10M

Sydney, Australia

Responsible for organising the EPIA Future Energy Leaders program which includes a one day national conference for high potential young energy professionals.

Sydney, Australia

Responsibilities:• Conduct fundamental long-term analysis of local and international energy and carbon markets within the Energy Markets Optimisation Team.Achievements:• Developed an environmental market investment strategy to optimise Origin’s green certificate position and add $5M to energy trading gross margin

Sydney, Australia

Responsibilities:• Manage day-to-day optimisation of Origin Energy’s wholesale gas portfolio (daily traded volume of $3M)• Develop Origin Energy’s short-term gas and electricity trading strategy with Origin’s Trading Operations teamAchievements:• Redeveloped Origin’s gas trader training program, reducing training time by 40% and increasing the availability of trader resources for the team’s shift roster• Restructured Origin's approach to gas supply for Brisbane customers removing $600k p.a. in market and transport costs

Geelong West, Australia

Responsibilities:• Production plant optimisation, project development, project management and project delivery• Plant safety and hazard assessment and optimisation• Coordinate Geelong Refinery’s energy efficiency programAchievements:• Developed and implemented a plant energy efficiency project to improve heat efficiency by 30% and generate $2M p.a. in refinery margin

Responsible for designing and implementing a carbon neutral strategy to reduce and offset emissions from Committee activities.

Developed a computer simulation of process plant, validated against plant data, to use in trouble shooting and optimisation. Debottlenecking generated $US350,000 per month in refinery margin.