(Senior) Commodity Originator I BESS Flex

At Vattenfall, we don’t just “do energy”, we exist to help our customers power their lives in ever climate smarter ways. If you are looking for interesting challenges and the opportunity to be part of this change, then join our diverse and talented team and make a difference.

Our Business Area (BA) Markets is looking for the right person to fill the position as

(Senior) Commodity Originator I BESS Flex for our offices in Hamburg or Amsterdam.

Your role
As our Commodity Originator you are expected to identify, develop, negotiate and implement new business opportunities as well as maintain regular semi-standard deals in order to develop our trading business and mitigate our risks. The main focus of the successful candidate will be to explore, acquire and onboard flexibility into Vattenfall’s portfolio, be it standalone assets or assets linked to system-integration projects. Deal closure includes all internal approvals by relevant committees and contract negotiation. There is also the chance to work on a varied range of structured energy commodity transactions and non-standard contracts covering power, gas, green certificates, CO2, biomass and flexibility products, where Origination acts as the single interface to the market. You will join a diverse team where close cooperation with our trading and asset business units, as well as other important stakeholders is required. We expect that you will bring experience from one or several of the commodity areas we aim to strengthen.

Key responsibilities

• Identify structured / non-standard trading, asset & customer-based opportunities, mainly in the area of system flexibility and energy storage
• Identify potential new clients and follow-up on current leads
• Grow and innovate Vattenfall’s Origination business and drive PnL generation
• Manage and drive onboarding process for new counterparties until deal closure and follow up to ensure robust implementation
• Facilitate decision making processes, potentially involving executive group management
• Internal coordination with Legal, Trade Control, Reg Ops, Market and Credit Risk, Finance

Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 21,000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission.

Business Area (BA) Markets’ role in Vattenfall is to maximize the value of the overall portfolio by optimizing and dispatching, hedging, and sourcing for Vattenfall's sales and generation volumes. We serve as Vattenfall’s single access to energy commodity markets and trade electricity, emissions, fuels, freight, and renewable certificates. We employ around 500 professionals who are active across Europe with offices in Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.

Within Markets BU Customers is offering power purchase agreements to operators of wind or solar parks. We provide market access services to large customers and (regional) energy suppliers and connect demand-side flexibility of industry to stabilize the electricity grid. We furthermore source electricity for Vattenfall’s consumer- and business customers with a strong focus to increase renewable sources of electricity.

We have a culture of care and growth. You will collaborate with inspiring people around you, on complex and interesting topics. Together, we drive the energy transition.

Profile
To be smoothly up and running in this role you bring these hard skills and personal characteristics:

• High degree of commercial focus, strong business acumen and PnL responsibility
• Ability to structure complex energy transactions, taking ownership and responsibility for deals in order to drive them from idea generation to deal closure
• Experience in physical and financial energy markets. Familiarity with energy storage systems is preferred
• Existing network in the energy trading market
• Strong self-motivation to achieve PnL in a challenging and rapidly evolving environment
• Fluent in English and German
• Perseverance & resilience
• Growth mindset that embraces opportunity and creativity
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• High assertiveness and solution-focused thinking

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be 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.

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, called Validata. In addition, a certificate of good conduct (i.e. criminal record certificate) is required for certain positions.

We look forward to receiving your application! 🚀