Quantitative Analyst

Join Eneco as a Quantitative Analyst and help shape a sustainable future

Advanced data-driven optimization and automation

Direct impact on energy trading and sustainability

Cross-functional collaboration in a dynamic market

Why choose Eneco?

The energy transition is in full swing and Eneco is leading the way. Our goal? To be fully climate-neutral by 2035. This applies to our own business activities, but also to the energy we supply to our customers. For example, we develop wind and solar farms ourselves, and we help customers take sustainable steps every day with smart products and good advice. Do you want to help us shape a sustainable future? Then we're looking for you.

What you’ll do

As a Quantitative Analyst in the Flex Optimization team, you’ll work on maximizing the value of Eneco’s steerable asset portfolio - including gas-fired power plants, renewable assets, batteries, industrial e-boilers, and behind the meter assets amongst others - by optimizing their flexibility across short-term power and ancillary markets.

Your work directly impacts Eneco’s trade result and contributes to a smarter, cleaner energy system. You will build data-driven optimization strategies and bidding algorithms that operate in fast-moving, real-time energy markets. With a short feedback loop between your models and market outcomes, you’ll constantly iterate and improve performance by means of a hands-on implementation and a focus on scalable automation. You’ll be working with large and growing datasets, so a continuous effort to improve forecasting, modelling, and decision support tooling is essential to stay ahead.

Is this about you?

• You have a quantitative MSc and are data literate (data science and analytical skills) with up to 3 years of relevant work experience (preferably in the energy sector).
• You have experience in a commercially result driven team and are hands-on and pragmatic.
• Stress resistant in terms of managing exposures and deadlines.
• Pro-actively initiating improvements and your drive to get things done is key.
• Eneco Energy Trade is a very dynamic environment. Targets change frequently based on market or business opportunities. We need you to be flexible and focused at the same time.
• You are able to prioritize based on urgency and impact.

You’ll be responsible for

• Bidding and optimizing Eneco’s flexible asset portfolio in short-term and ancillary power markets; this includes participation in a rotating shift schedule from Monday – Sunday.
• Developing and maintaining models for asset optimization, forecasting, and bidding strategies.
• Designing and implementing new flexibility value propositions, from grid-scale batteries to behind the meter solutions, that enhance customer value and system flexibility.
• Driving automation and scalability, identifying where manual processes can be streamlined and operationalized.
• Analysing market developments, regulatory changes, and international opportunities to identify commercial potential or risks.
• Collaborating closely with teams across Data Science, Forecasting, Trading, IT, and Operations to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions.

This is where you’ll work

You will work within the Flex Optimization team for Eneco Energy Trade - Eneco's international trading division - right next to Rotterdam-Alexander station. A complex, dynamic environment where ever-moving markets, ever-changing positions, new technologies, and the law of inhibiting head start create a challenging field of tension which requires a lot of initiative and insight. We interact quickly with each other in an informal, transparent and collegial atmosphere. In a rapidly changing energy landscape, you and your team will shape the energy transition. A tough job, with challenging but achievable targets.

What we have to offer

• Gross annual salary between €70.000 and €98.000 – Including FlexBudget, 8% holiday allowance, and depending on your role a bonus or collective profit sharing.
• FlexBudget – Have it paid out, use it to buy extra holiday days or save it up for something nice, it's up to you.
• Personal and professional growth – Eneco is fully committed to help you in your personal and professional development.
• Hybrid working, at home or in the office – You work 40% at the office and 40% at home. The other day you decide what works best for you.

Work that works for you and the climate

If you decide on a career at Eneco, you are choosing ambition, growth and opportunities. You will have all the space you want to improve yourself and do your job the way that suits you best, which includes having a good work-life balance. You can work to a flexible schedule and work partly from home if your role allows it. That is how you can work on your own future and on the future of the world. After all, you and your 4,000 colleagues are committed to our mission: climate neutrality by 2035. We assist customers to accelerate their sustainability efforts, devise innovative solutions and seize opportunities with both hands. Are you ready?