Head of Commodities Power Management

Vattenfall is looking for a Head of Commodities Power Management within Business unit Commodities, Customer & Solution Region Nordic.
Commodities Power Management is one of four departments within BU Commodities. As a manager you will be a part of the management team of Commodities. You will have a team of approximately six to eight colleagues situated in Solna, Sweden. You act in all Nordic electricity markets. You will report directly to the Director of Commodities.


The responsibilities of this strategic role:
You are responsible to manage Customer and Solution Nordic’s physical purchase including load forecasting, balance management and Physical Trading Services. In the role you shall continuously work with development and efficiency to minimize our balancing costs. It is of importance to review and develop strategies, system, tools and analysis to enabling further improvements. You have the responsibility to secure alignment according to agreements with eSett and TSO’s. Furthermore you manage pricing of the imbalance together with balance settlement and corrections.Due to accrual process and book closing you are in charge to secure a correct allocation of physical purchasing and balancing cost.
This department is in charge of providing and developing physical trading services to our B2B customers including off set of consumption flexibility on the physical markets. It is of great importance to develop our digital capabilities to manage the increased demand of products and services related to customer consumption flexibility both in B2B segments and B2C segments.
We work in close cooperation with BA Markets in many areas regarding our Physical Power Management. You have the responsibility for this interface and shall work with refining and improving this interface.

We are looking for:
• Passion to manage business based on customer insight (internal and external) and commercial focus.
• Acting according to Vattenfall leadership criteria’s; connect people, accelerate learning and drive innovation when leading both business and people. Be a role model of Vattenfall principles of Open, Active, Positive and Health & Safety.
• Business oriented and able to combine a strategic and commercial focus with an operational capability.
• Genuine interests of digitalisation and IT

Professional qualifications and skills:
• Relevant university degree or equivalent.
• Your command of English is strong, both verbally and in writing.
• Solid knowledge of energy wholesale market and physical electricity market.
• Knowledge of project management and working with process improvements.
• Financial and analytical skills, ability to understand, create and judge business cases.

Your main deliverables:
• A correct allocation of physical purchase and balancing cost.
• Contribute to Consumer Sales and Business Sales gross margin optimisation and increased profitability.
• The lowest balancing cost at the market.
• Physical Trading Services to be best in class together with profitable off-set of consumption flexibility.
• Empower your people for growth and performance.

We welcome your application including cover letter and CV in English via the link below. Please do not wait until the last day, applications will be handled continuously throughout the application period.

Last day to apply is the 8th of August 2022.

An assessment and DISC analysis is part of the recruitment process. By applying you agree to the use of existing assessment reports and Management Planning data in the selection process.

For more information about the position you are welcome to contact Toni Sunding, the Director of Commodities, C&S Region Nordic at +46 70 344 97 10. If you have questions regarding the recruitment process you are welcome to contact Cecilia Wijkman, cecilia.wijkman@vattenfall.com

Trade Union Representative, to be reached through Vattenfall’s switchboard, +46 (8) 739 50 00 Per Svensson (Akademikerna), Jens Morell (Unionen), Mikael Mukka (SEKO) Cecilia Bodin (Ledarna).

What we offer
At Vattenfall, you will work in an open and entrepreneurial environment. We offer a challenging job in an informal, dynamic working environment. You can be a part of shaping the future of a company with the ambition to create a fossil-free future.

Since Vattenfall is part of the Swedish critical infrastructure many of our positions are security classed. If this position is security classed the final candidates can be subject to a security vetting process, according to the Swedish legislation.
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