Strategy Implementation Manager

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 Vattenfall, Business Area Markets optimizes assets, sources and trades commodities, ensuring best value for both Vattenfall and our customers while being at the centre of the energy transition. Business Area Markets is active across Europe with around 450 professionals working from Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK.


Job Description
Do you want to help in enabling a fossil free living within one generation?
BA Markets is now looking for the right person to fill the position as Strategy Implementation Manager for Business Unit Assets
In Business Unit (BU) Assets we maximise the value of all Vattenfall assets through optimal bidding and dispatching of power plant capacities. In addition, we are responsible for the development and execution of an appropriate hedge strategy of the overall exposure of Vattenfall. BU Assets is active across Europe with around 90 highly skilled employees in Stockholm and Hamburg.
To benefit from the ongoing transformation of the Vattenfall portfolio as well as the transition of the energy system, our focus lies on increasing efficiency, driving the adoption of advanced analytics and automation and developing our capabilities to enable the optimization and steering of existing large scale power generation assets as well as new, decentral, energy systems.
We offer you an attractive and inclusive workplace, learning opportunities and a culture of care and performance, empowering our people to develop to their full potential.
As Strategy Implementation Manager you will be key in driving transformation and have the following key responsibilities:
Drive BU Assets’ business planning and strategy process
Oversee and steer BU Assets’ project portfolio, to ensure business plan execution
Actively take part in the project portfolio prioritization process in BA Markets, representing BU Assets
Support and guide activities for Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement in BU Assets
Lead selective project initiatives
Develop and drive selective new business initiatives (e.g. decentral business cases)
Lead Business Intelligence activities within BU Assets
Be part of the BU Asset Management Team



Qualifications
At least 5 years of relevant work experience
Relevant experience in the areas of Business Strategy, Consulting, Project Management or similar
Experience of agile development and stakeholder management
Good understanding of the energy market and its current developments
University degree in relevant areas.

You truly like to work in cooperation with others and to manage key stakeholders on all managerial levels. With efficiency, structure, grit and high spirits you solve even the toughest tasks. The right candidate has the ability to assess what is good for BU Assets as well as for Vattenfall and convince the company to rally behind it.

Additional Information
Location: Solna or Hamburg
At Vattenfall, 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. Please read mor about Diversity and other benefits here: https://careers.vattenfall.com/global/en/about-us
For more information about the position you are welcome to contact Sjur Jensen, +46 705 397 154 . For information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact recruiter Peter Blixter, +46 72 237 32 02.
Trade union representatives: Jens Morell (Unionen) and Sven Gunnar Gremlin (Akademikerna). To get in contact with the representatives, please call Vattenfall switchboard +46 8 739 50 00.
We welcome your application, including CV and cover letter, no later than 2nd of April 2023. As we may conduct interviews on an ongoing basis, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
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.
We look forward to receiving your application!