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 it possible to live fossil-free 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 influence tomorrow's climate-smart society and create the electricity grid of the future. Vattenfall takes great responsibility for creating a fossil-free Sweden where a stable electricity grid is a prerequisite for success. We need you to get there. Do you want to make a real difference for Sweden to succeed in the energy transition and achieve the climate goals?

As Head of Department for Project Performance and Support (in everyday terms, the Project Office), you will lead, inspire and engage employees who manage, develop and support the implementation of the company's portfolio of investment projects. The purpose of the department is to create the best possible conditions for maintaining an efficient and sustainable quality in the planning and implementation of plant investments in the regional and local networks. The work is guided by the needs of the business and today there are 11 employees in the department.

Project Performance and support currently has assignments in:

• Quality assurance and management of methods, working methods and tools in, among other things, program and project management, methodology for time and resource planning, risk management, structure for unit-wide steering documents and guidelines and a number of information management systems.
• Leading, coordinating and quality assuring the Operational Unit's information management, business risk and quality assurance of SAP/PPM usage and training coordination.
• Support and coordination including operational support to projects and programs in risk and uncertainty analysis, sharepoint, information security, time and resource planning and program and project management.

In addition to leading and being responsible for the department's deliverables, your main responsibilities include:

• Coordinating and representing the unit in unit-wide issues when necessary
• Leading our continued development of ways of working for the existing and any additional areas of competence.
• You will report to the Head of Portfolio and Program Management and be part of the unit's management team.

Requirements

We are looking for you who have

• Academic education preferably as a civil engineer or economist or which we consider equivalent.
• Have been a manager or leader and have experience of working in larger organizations.
• Good communication skills both written and oral. Fluent in Swedish and English.
• Experience in business projects, preferably from the construction or energy industry.

To succeed in the role, you are communicative and have the ability to capture the needs of the business and drive value-creating business development within the department's areas of responsibility. You need to be delivery-focused and solution-oriented and have the ability to adapt to a high pace of change with varying needs.

You are driven by developing both people and working methods and have the ability to inspire and create commitment among your employees. Furthermore, you have a good ability to build trust and collaborate with others to achieve results in a common goal. To succeed in the role, we believe that you are confident and credible in your leadership and you enjoy leading your employees through changes.

Further information

In addition to being able to help shape the smart energy society of the future, we offer a workplace with good opportunities for development. We encourage you to move on and explore new areas within the company. With our career and development model, we want to create clarity in the opportunities you have to develop in the direction you want. It's important to make your whole life work, which is why we are committed to ensuring that our employees enjoy a good work-life balance. We believe that diversity and inclusion lead to innovation, improved business performance and increased engagement and we strive to represent the diversity of our customers and the communities in which we operate.

We also have a wide range of other employee benefits such as reduced working hours, favorable occupational pension agreements, parental leave allowance and more. Find out more here:Compensation & Benefits - Vattenfall SE

Read more about us at: www.vattenfalleldistribution.se

As a manager at Vattenfall Electricity Distribution, 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, Trollhättan or Luleå

Contacts

For more information about the position, please contact the recruiting manager Pernilla Ngo Magnusson, pernilla.ngomagnusson@vattenfall.com

For more information about the recruitment process itself, please contact recruiter Jessica Petersson, 070-0398 770, jessica.petersson@vattenfall.com.

Union representatives for this position are Christian Ericsson, Ledarna, Anne-Marie Sjöbohm, Akademikerna, Asim Nokic, Unionen, Ulf Tengman, SEKO. All contact persons can be reached via Vattenfall's switchboard 08-739 50 00.

Does this sound like an exciting challenge? Then we look forward to receiving your application by February 2. We only accept applications via our career page.

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