General Manager Market Services
Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand
Responsible for the overall operation of the New Zealand electricity market and power system, including oversight of contracted service providers, including the system operator.Achieving value-for-money service provider performance. At over $45 million per year, service provider contracts represent about 70% of the Authority’s annual budget. New contracts established with a more customer-centric focus, cost reductions and quality and governance improvements. Leading the… Show more Responsible for the overall operation of the New Zealand electricity market and power system, including oversight of contracted service providers, including the system operator.Achieving value-for-money service provider performance. At over $45 million per year, service provider contracts represent about 70% of the Authority’s annual budget. New contracts established with a more customer-centric focus, cost reductions and quality and governance improvements. Leading the development of the Authority's strategy for the regulation of new consumer technologies such as solar PV, batteries and EVs.Governance and successful completion of the multi-million dollar portfoilo of projects implementing new electricity market initiatives across service provider and industry participant business systems.As part of the Authority’s Senior Leadership Team (SLT), responsibility for overall organisational development, including strategy, risk management, work programme and budget, and embedding culture and values. The Authority was established in November 2010, so a new organisational culture had to be created to support the new strategy and vision and the successful achievement of the ambitious work programme.Leading a team of up to eleven specialist staff (with four direct reports).Setting and achieving the strategy for the Authority's management and delivery of electricity market operations and services, and the work programme & budget for the Market Services team.Performance against the work programme & budget (including operational BAU) and for high priority projects and activities presented to the Board on a monthly basis.Initiating and leading strategic reviews of service providers and their IT systems, to ensure they remain fit-for-purpose for the rapidly changing electricity market, changes in IT capability, and for maximising the value of the data being processed.Regulatory and policy design for the operational aspects of the electricity market rulebook. Show less