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 around 20,000 employees. We have been electrifying industries, powering homes and transforming lives through innovation for over a century. We now want to make fossil-free living possible within a generation and we are driving the transition to a sustainable energy system.

Vattenfall Eldistribution AB distributes electricity to households, businesses and society - around the clock, all year round. Our electricity network is over 12,000 miles long and we distribute electricity to almost 900,000 customers. We build, operate, maintain and invest in our electricity network to ensure that you as a customer receive a reliable supply. Read more about us at: www.vattenfalleldistribution.se.

About the role

An exciting everyday life - for a fossil-free future. With us, you get to be involved in influencing tomorrow's climate-smart society and creating the electricity grid of the future.

Vattenfall Eldistribution is in an exciting and strong growth phase. As a Group Manager, do you want to be involved in developing our business and our employees?

The Asset Surveillance department has a national responsibility for Vattenfall Eldistribution's detection capability in the security area of physical protection. This includes the operation and management of all security technology as well as full operational and staffing responsibility for our monitoring centers.

Do you want to lead a team working on the front line to secure our critical infrastructure? Do you have experience in managing both operations and staff and want to develop our security capability into one of the most efficient and reliable units in the industry?

You will report directly to the Executive Director of Asset Surveillance and be part of his/her management team. The role involves staff responsibility for a national team of twenty direct reports.

We are now looking for a Group Manager for our Asset Optimization, who will lead and motivate staff in their assignments and contribute to the business development of the area.

Duties:

• Team management and development: Responsible for developing and planning a team of experienced and skilled employees.
• Security Strategy and GAP Management: Develop and implement strategic lifecycle plans to ensure detection capability is maintained over time.
• Work with financial targets: Manage short and long term budgets and forecasts for both OPEX and CAPEX.
• Business development and process improvements: Contribute to necessary business development and work towards an improved process landscape.
• Collaboration and reporting: Communicate and collaborate with both internal and external stakeholders to ensure the highest safety standards.
• Training and safety culture: Ensure that the team has the right conditions, training and knowledge to deal with laws and standards and follow best practices for a safe working environment.

Requirements

We are looking for you who is an experienced leader in safety, with proven experience of both operational and strategic leadership and has experience of working in a management team. You are a communicative and inspiring leader and have the ability to motivate and build strong teams and are clear in your communication. Furthermore, you need to be strategic and analytical and be able to see the big picture, make quick decisions in case of emergencies and work long-term on development issues. As a person, you are results-oriented and technically minded and have a good knowledge of security technology, legal requirements and standards, and ensure that the team achieves its goals.

Qualifications:

• Many years of experience working in a senior position with personnel responsibility from the technical security industry.
• Experience in leading and developing teams and operations, as well as the ability to report and interact in a large and complex organization.
• Ability to express yourself well in Swedish and English, both in speech and writing.

Additional information

In addition to helping shape the smart energy society of the future, we offer a workplace with good opportunities for development. With our career and development model, we want to create clarity in the opportunities you have to develop in the direction you want. It is important that the whole life works and therefore we are keen that our employees experience a good balance between work and leisure. We believe that diversity and inclusion lead to innovation, improved business results and increased engagement and we strive to represent the diversity of our customers and the society we operate in.

Please read more about working at Vattenfall here: Work with us - Vattenfall SE

As a manager at Vattenfall Eldistribution, you are motivated by driving transformation by:

• Engaging your employees to participate in development work
• Responsible for raising new business development needs
• Taking a clear sponsorship including responsibility for benefit realization for our business development projects
• Responsible for reception and compliance of new ways of working

Location: Solna

If you want to know more about the position, please contact the recruiting manager +46 70 261 43 09 or mathias.hedgren@vattenfall.com

For more information about the recruitment process, please contact recruiter Jessica Petersson +46 700 398 770 or jessica.petersson@vattenfall.com

Union representatives via Vattenfall's switchboard, +46 8 739 50 00

Christian Ericsson, Ledarna, Anne-Marie Sjöbohm, Akademikerna, Asim Nokic, Unionen, Ulf Tengman, SEKO

Does this feel like a job for you? We look forward to receiving your application by January 5, 2025.

We only accept applications via our website.

Vattenfall Eldistribution AB is part of Sweden's critical infrastructure, thus many of our services are security classified. If this service is security classified, security clearance will be carried out before employment, in accordance with the Security Protection Act.