Product Manager Customer Flexibility

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.
Within BA Customers & Solutions the customer comes first. The employees strive to deliver the best customer experience and provide relevant offers and services to the customers. With over six million customers, Business Area Customers & Solutions is responsible for the sales of solutions and energy contracts to private and business customers in Germany, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway.


BU Commodities within Customer and Solutions region Nordic supports Business- and Consumer Sales with ownership of a legally- and regulatory compliant, sustainable and value-adding product- and service portfolio. Contributes to gross margin optimization by managing the pricing strategy and framework as well as hedging strategies and execution of financial sourcing. Manages risks associated with electricity sales and handle the physical power purchase and balance management.
The energy market is more exciting now than ever and standing before some revolutionary changes, with the transition towards more electrification, more renewable production and new possibilities with machine learning and artificial intelligence. In Power Management our job is to foresee these changes, analyze them and help our customers to become more active on the market and make fossil free living possible before 2030.
Job Description
Do you have a curious and analytical mind, an interest for energy and industrial processes? - and would like to make a difference by creating the future energy market? We might have the right position for you!
What we do
You will be part of the Power Management team, which has the responsibility to source the electricity that will be used by our customers in the Nordics. This also includes the balancing services and taking the customer flexibility to the market. It is a tight team of eight colleagues that report to the Head of Power Management.
Vattenfall has one of the largest and most complex product portfolios for Customer electricity sourcing in the Nordics today. We see it as of great importance and value to continue in developing new products, methods, optimizing models and tools adapted to the future energy system in order to drive change and maintain our position as market leaders. We dare to promise the right candidate an exciting and rewarding area for personal development and a very meaningful employment.

What you will do
In the role as Product manager Customer Flexibility you will be responsible to identify power consuming assets at our customer and prospects sites, that can be connected to one or more flex markets at the Nordic TSO’s. Participation on flex markets from a power consuming customer point of view, means that a customer can adjust their consumption based on price signals on power. In the role you will continuously work on mapping all Vattenfall’s customer and prospects assets, in order to find the assets that can be connected to a flex market. Hence, an understanding for our customers and knowledge about their industrial processes is a great asset to the position.
Typical tasks and projects can be to learn what typical assets that can be connected to a certain flex market and also judge if this is possible in practice due to the assets dependencies to processes and other assets. Drive product development with focus on optimizing different assets and large scales batteries. You will work close to the B2B sales force and assist in the customer journey to connect customers assets to flex markets; identify the assets, calculate the business case and assist in the implementation. You will also be responsible for making sure that our products are compliant with market regulations.
Qualifications
In order to be successful as a Product Manager we highly value your personal qualities, and believe you are driven by new challenges and an eagerness to learn. It is meritorious that you have hands-on experience from industrial processes and/or a genuine technical interest. Experience from developing business models and for making sure offers stays profitable for both supplier and customer, is a plus.
Qualifications
Relevant technical university degree or equivalent.
Fluent in Swedish and English, both verbally and in writing.
Work-life experience from the energy market, analytics, data management and/or programming.

As a person you are curious and an analytical problem solver have a genuine interest in technical processes. At the same time, you are flexible and willing to work on more straightforward tasks, if this is what is needed to support the business.
You are outgoing, take initiatives, strive for results and have a willingness to interact directly with customers or external partners. You are enthusiastic about working close with other members of the team – sharing ideas and developing models together. You have the ability to plan and work in a structured way and you are known for a prompt and excellent delivery of even the most complex issues.
We are convinced that striving for diversity & inclusion helps building a more attractive, efficient, customer centric and profitable company. Therefore, we welcome applications from all individuals regardless of age, religious belief, gender identity & expression, sexual identity, disability and ethnic background. Read more on how we work with diversity and inclusion here.
Additional Information
Location of this position is our head office in Solna


We welcome your application including cover letter and CV in English no later than November 3rd 2022. Applications may be handled continuously throughout the application period.