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 21 000 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.

Job Description

Are you ready for your next challenge - maybe it's within Vattenfall?

If you, like us, want to make a difference by enabling fossil free living, then maybe this opening is for you? The mission of our team, is to create value to our customers, partly by offering decentralized solutions consisting of solar and energy storage solutions - i.e. clean, distributed and renewable energy - and partly services linked to these products.

Another key area for our team is to connect and optimize the energy system where connected decentralized energy resources (DER) create value in the form of flexibility needed to stabilize the national grid, manage imbalances in energy trading, congestion of the electricity grid etc. Our contribution to Vattenfall's purpose of enabling a fossil-free life.

As a Product Area Manager within Customers & Solutions (C&S) Nordics, you will together with our team develop the DES business in Sweden and Finland. Special focus for you will be to be responsible for leading projects from start to finish in areas such as product, business or operations development.

About the role

In the role of Development / Assignment Project Manager, you are responsible for running a development project or assignment from the decision to start the project or assignment to implementation and completion. Responsibilities include proposing an appropriate development methodology for the project at the outset and ensuring full handover of not only the outcome but also all relevant issues to the relevant recipient, which may be DES Market Operations or Product Area Manager, at the end. Emphasis should be placed on continuous improvement, i.e. to ensure the exchange of experience, for example by making suggestions for improvement. These must be communicated and documented before the project or assignment is completed. Collaboration with external partners and other parts of DES and Vattenfall is an important part of the daily work that includes people, processes and technology.

The role includes:

• Leading the team through the planning and execution of projects/assignments: Plan, organize, coordinate and report on the execution of assigned projects to steering committees, ensuring they are completed within agreed quality standards, schedule and budgets and if agile approach is preferred follow the guidelines inherent in this method given the budget and expected outcome
• Deliver on certain tasks/areas within the project - depending on the size and complexity of the project
• Manage project stakeholders - manage internal stakeholder expectations, keep everyone updated on the progress of the project and ensure effective communication throughout the project lifecycle
• Communicating with/managing technical partners within the project - if applicable and in case of involvement of technical partners; manage the relationship and ensure a structured way of approaching the partner during the development phase
• Manage project resources and project risks - manage all resources involved in the project, including team members and external resources. Identify potential project risks and implement strategies to mitigate them so that the project is properly managed
• Ensure that quality is in line with established standards: Ensure that project deliverables meet quality standards through regular reviews and testing
• Monitor progress - Track and monitor project progress, making adjustments as necessary to stay on schedule and within budget.
• Ensure a good working environment for project members and collaborate with line managers to ensure Vattenfall's safe workplace objectives are met
• Project completion: When completed, ensure that the project is officially closed and that all results and documents are transferred to relevant colleagues/organization

Qualifications

• Academic degree as Civil Engineer or equivalent
• At least 5-7 years of experience from a similar position
• Experience working as a project manager or as a sub-project manager in larger projects with many stakeholders
• Good understanding of the energy landscape
• Good understanding of the opportunities in the rapidly emerging digital field
• Fluent oral/written in Swedish and English. Finnish is a merit.

As a person, you need the following skills

• A curiosity and commitment that rubs off on others combined with strong goal focus and a drive to get there
• "Get things done" mentality; ability and courage to work on topics of both operational and strategic nature with an eye on the big picture
• Genuine team spirit; supporting and sparring with each other is crucial to success and is something you sign up to and are happy to do
• Ability to drive change and work in large and complex organizations and to effectively manage internal and external interfaces and collaborations which sometimes requires flexibility, thinking outside the box and an ability to remain calm regardless of the situation.

Other qualifications

• Driven, businesslike and with a high degree of perseverance
• Analytical thinking
• Structured and independent and at the same time flexible and pragmatic

Additional Information

We offer

In addition to being involved in shaping the smart energy society of the future, we offer you a developing and varied work with many contact surfaces. For us at Vattenfall, it is important that work and private life have a good balance, so we offer flexibility in work and the opportunity to work from home if needed. We also have a lot of other employee benefits such as reduced working hours, favorable occupational pension agreements, parental leave allowance and more. Read more about our benefits here.

Location

Solna