Senior Renewables Contract Manager

Our Business Area (BA) Markets is looking for the right person to fill the position of Senior Renewables Contract Manager (Corporate PPA, Partnership & Flexibility).

Lead the operational management of our key contracts alongside the energy transition!

Are you ready to take on an exciting role in a diverse international environment? Join us as a Senior Renewables Contract Manager and unlock the commercial potential of our renewable energy and flexibility assets. Your expertise will be crucial in realizing their full value. The role itself is not legally focused, but rather centers on establishing and maintaining data driven operational management of our contracts. You will have the opportunity to demonstrate your unique combination of skills ranging from a large knowledge base of the underlying business to a high degree of ability in managing systems that are needed to fulfill day to day operations.

Your Mission

As a well experienced professional, your main responsibilities will revolve around managing processes and their fulfilment in relation to our power and flexibility purchase agreement product suite. This role will allow you to actively engage with a broad stakeholder community, both internally and externally, to lead assignment and various initiative and thus empower you to enhance your knowledge and expertise in the dynamic world of renewable energy markets.

The following key responsibilities will be on your daily schedule:

• You are responsible for lifecycle management of our existing customer contracts and related fulfillment of services
• You will focus on data-driven contract administration, performance tracking and operational coordination, as well as automation and innovation where possible
• You will track implementation of contractual clauses, setting up monitoring tools and alarm systems and streamline data workflows.
• You oversee developments in the markets and drive potential amendments of our contracts or possible resulting claims together with our Origination desk
• You maintain and improve services and related processes that are linked to the contract suite
• You monitor regulatory changes and impacts on our contracts

Qualifications

What you bring

We are looking for a candidate with the following knowledge and background:

• University degree in relevant discipline
• Proper understanding of energy market and the renewables & flexibility market especially
• Relevant work experience of at least 5 to 10 years and network in the energy sector
• Advanced experience as user of software for data driven contract management, including CRM, CLM (customer relation and contract lifecycle management), ETRM (energy trading and risk management), as well as Settlement
• Proven track record in management of large data sets across end-2-end processes
• Relevant experience in management of complex projects, leading people, as well as process excellence is considered a plus
• Team player with excellent communication skills and solution orientation
• Fluent in English, written and verbal

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

Company Description

Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 21,000 employees. 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.

Right in the heart of Vattenfall, at Business Area (BA) Markets, you will find an inspiring international environment, with a culture of care and personal growth, enabling you to be who you are, having fun, building strong relationships and learning every day.

We employ around 500 professionals who are active across Europe with offices in Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom to drive the energy transition together. Our 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.

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.