Senior Certificates Trader

As a Senior Certificates Trader, your strategies directly drive desk performance and portfolio growth within a rapidly expanding certificates franchise.

• Trade across EU ETS, GoOs and emerging environmental products where regulation, liquidity gaps and cross-commodity flows create exploitable inefficiencies
• Operate in an entrepreneurial trading environment with access to Eneco’s balance sheet, data capabilities and physical market flows

Why choose Eneco?

The European environmental markets are evolving rapidly: carbon, guarantees of origin, biomethane certificates, and beyond. At Eneco Energy Trade, we don’t just follow this transition; we actively shape it.

As a Senior Certificates Trader, you will play a key role in scaling our renewable molecules and environmental certificates portfolio across Europe. You combine strategic vision with execution power and know how to turn market insight into measurable P&L impact.

The energy transition is no longer theoretical; it’s a live market. Biomethane, hydrogen and biogenic CO₂ are creating entirely new trading dynamics.

Within our Certificates Desk, you’ll operate at the intersection of:

• Voluntary & compliance carbon markets
• European certificate schemes
• Emerging renewable molecule markets
• Structured and cross-commodity opportunities

This is a role with real responsibility, autonomy and growth potential.

What you’ll do

• Develop and execute proprietary trading strategies in European environmental markets
• Identify structural inefficiencies and translate them into actionable positions
• Build analytical frameworks and pricing models
• Manage positions dynamically in response to regulatory and market developments
• Collaborate with Business Development on origination and new market flows

Is this about you?

• 5+ years trading experience in commodities and/or environmental certificates
• Demonstrated track record in strategy development and performance delivery
• Strong commercial instinct and entrepreneurial mindset
• Quantitative understanding and risk awareness
• Ability to operate independently in fast-moving markets
• Based in the Netherlands or willing to relocate

You’ll be responsible for

• End-to-end strategy ownership and P&L performance
• Risk management within defined trading limits
• Capital allocation decisions within your mandate
• Scaling profitable strategies and growing the certificates franchise
• Maintaining disciplined execution and compliance standards

This is where you’ll work

You’ll join Eneco Energy Trade (EET), Eneco’s international trading hub, based in Rotterdam (next to Rotterdam-Alexander station). With 160 professionals, EET operates across power, gas, LNG, environmental markets and renewable molecules. The culture is entrepreneurial, collaborative and performance-driven, combining trading sharpness with long-term transition impact.

What we have to offer

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: home, office or abroad

Work 40% at the office, 40% from home, and 20% flexibly. With manager approval, you may work abroad (within approved countries) up to 3 weeks/year, max 2 consecutively.