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 21,000 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.

About the role

Would you like to join us in strengthening our sales organization, with customer and business responsibility for Vattenfall's energy intensive business customers?

Vattenfall Business Sales Nordic is looking for a Key Account Manager with sales, customer and business responsibility for Vattenfall's large electricity intensive business customers in the area of electricity trading with closely related services. The Energy Intensive Clients segment includes the largest users of electricity and is found in traditional basic industry, data centers and emerging new electricity-intensive industry. For the energy-intensive clients, electricity represents a large part of the cost base and is therefore of strategic importance in both the short and long term.

As Key Account Manager you will have overall customer and business responsibility for the business conducted with the customers you are responsible for and which you develop in your customer portfolio. For larger and more complex clients, you will form a client team that you will lead, motivate and support to achieve good business. The role gives you great opportunities to use your knowledge, experience and creativity to find business solutions with the greatest customer benefit and profitability for both the customer and Vattenfall.

We offer you a fun, stimulating and challenging job in a growing customer segment. You will have great opportunities to influence in different areas of sales and business development.

Requirement specification

• Very good understanding of the electricity market and experience of having worked in connection with the energy market for at least 5 years.
• Experience in B2B sales, trading, ancillary services or origination.
• Very good knowledge of Swedish and English, both spoken and written.

It is meritorious if you have an academic degree in a field relevant to the position, but the right work experience and personality are crucial in this position. Knowledge of Finnish is also an advantage.

As a person, it is important that you...

• Have the ability to build new and develop existing relationships
• Think creatively and have a strategic approach
• Be business-minded and structured
• Be responsive to the customer and have an interest in understanding the customer's challenges
• Driven by working goal- and result-oriented
• Be flexible and solution-oriented
• Be a problem solver with a proactive and continuous drive to develop and improve.

Further information

In addition to helping shape the smart energy society of the future, we offer you a developing and varied job with many contact surfaces. For us at Vattenfall, it is important that work and private life have a good balance, which is why 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

You will be based in one of our offices in Solna, Trollhättan or Gothenburg. Travel within the Nordic region is part of the job.

For more information about the job itself, please contact the recruiting manager Johan Axelsson, +46 703 69 54 14. For questions about the recruitment process, please contact recruiter Jennifer Wikström, +46 702 09 63 35.

Union representatives are Rolf Olsson (Akademikerna), Cecilia Bodin (Ledarna), Mikael Mukka (SEKO) and Simon Salomonsson (Unionen). You can reach all of them via Vattenfall's switchboard, 08 739 50 00.

Please submit your application no later than November 21, 2024. Test mailings, selection and interviews are ongoing, so do not wait to submit your application until the deadline. We only accept applications via our website.

We use tests in this recruitment process and an online test will be sent to all applicants as a first step in the recruitment process.

We are convinced that diversity contributes to building a more profitable and appealing company and strive to be good role models when it comes to diversity. Vattenfall works actively to ensure that all employees have the same opportunities and rights regardless of age, ethnic or cultural background, gender, religion/belief, sexual orientation or disability. Read more about how we work with diversity and inclusion here.

We look forward to receiving your application!