Category Manager Batteries

Company Description
Vattenfall is one of Europe’s largest producers and retailers of electricity and heat. Our main markets are Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the UK. The Vattenfall Group has approximately 20,000 employees. We have been electrifying industries, powering homes and transforming life through innovation for more than 100 years. We now want to make fossil free living possible within one generation and we are driving the transition to a sustainable energy system.


Job Description
Do you want to develop our procurement organization and contribute to enable the fossil freedom that drives society forward? For our Procurement team Customer & Energy Solutions we are now looking for an experienced and ambitious Category Manager Batteries.
Vattenfall is undergoing a major transformation. Our purpose to power fossil free living requires all time high efforts in decarbonization, digitalization and decentralization at the same time as running a top performance operation.
The great thing about this ambition is that we as Indirect Procurement can make a major contribution to it. We can and must show that we can enable the fossil freedom that drives society forward. We do this together with our suppliers and the business by, among other things, making services more sustainable.
The opportunity
In order to succeed in the Volatile market technological lead, time to market and cost competitiveness are absolutely crucial. The Category Manager Batteries needs to build engagement and relationships with new supplier markets, understand the roadmap for technical and cost developments and create new and efficient supply chains from battery cells to electric works and installation.
In this role you will report to the Procurement Manager of Central Category Management Customer & Energy Solutions and become a colleague to the Category Managers and strategic buyers within the Central categories Solar, Hydrogen, EV-charging, Marketing & Communication and Finance. The categories are characterized by the need to balance speed & adaptability with Vattenfall global procurement processes and to coordinate supply chains between different Business Areas. The Procurement team is a cross-Business Area, cross-market team with a broad responsibility handling sourcing of hardware to logistics and installation.
As our Category Manager Batteries your main responsibility is to develop the Vattenfall Category Strategy, within Energy Solutions, with key business stakeholders including:
Value creation & saving potentials.
Supply chain options.
New sourcing channels.
Supplier development and innovation.
Capturing synergies across Business Areas/markets/categories.
Develop and execute specific sourcing strategies for components & installations together with Business units.



Qualifications
To be successful in this role we believe you have:
Relevant university degree within engineering, economics, business administration, law etc.
At least 8 years of relevant working experience, including large international sourcing projects, preferable in the renewable energy area, energy sector or heavy industry
Fluency in English (both written and spoken) is required – German is a benefit.

It is meritorious if you have experience from an agile way of working and have the ability to handle a complex organisation. Experience from large, complex, technically advanced projects and sourcing in international highly strategic projects are valuable previous experiences.
We are looking for a person with strong personal integrity and loyalty, who acts according to beliefs. To enjoy this position we believe you have a high service orientation. In this position you need to collaborate well with other colleagues from the same or different departments, therefore we are looking for someone who enjoys working in teams.


Additional Information
Our Offer
In addition to helping you shape the smart energy society of the future, we offer a workplace with good opportunities for development. With our career and development model, we want to create clarity in which opportunities you have to develop in the direction you want. It is important that the whole life works and therefore we are keen that our employees experience a good balance between work and leisure. We are convinced that diversity and inclusion lead to innovation, improved business results and increased engagement, and we strive to represent diversity among our customers and the society in which we operate.


Diversity and inclusion – in everything we do. At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be a good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation. Click here for further information.
Location: Berlin, Stockholm or Amsterdam.


For more information about the position you are welcome to contact hiring manager Tobias Winblad: +46-70 312 80 44. For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our recruiter Kajsa Loman, +46-70 285 33 64.


Trade Union representatives in Sweden are Rolf Ohlsson (Akademikerna), Jens Morell (Unionen), Christer Gustafsson (Ledarna), Juha Siipilehto (SEKO). To get in contact with the representatives, please call Vattenfall´s switchboard +46 8 739 50 00.


We welcome your application in English, including CV and cover letter, no later than 9th of November 2023. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website.
The security of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. For that reason, a pre-employment screening will be part of your recruitment process. The screening is based on the role you will fulfill within Vattenfall. The screening will be performed by a third party, Validata.


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


We look forward to receiving your application!