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. i.e. great benefit to society. Our contribution to Vattenfall's purpose of enabling a fossil-free life.

As 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 a product area which includes the entire product life cycle from strategy and planning to execution, including go-to-market and launch, as well as post-analysis, to continuous development and maintenance and possible discontinuation in the future.

About the role

In the role of Product Area manager you work together with the rest of the team and are the expert regarding your product area, thus for the currently existing products and those under development. The role aims to achieve the revenue and customer satisfaction targets within given budget and timeframes. Balancing business objectives, customer needs and technical considerations on the one hand and on the other ensuring that long term goals are met. The responsibility includes defining the product strategy and vision including go-to-market strategy within the product area which should be in line with DES other product portfolio and Business Unit Customer Nordic strategy and goals.

Collaboration with external partners as well as other parts of DES and Vattenfall is an important part of the daily work which includes people, processes and technology.

The role includes:

• Responsibility and management of the DES portfolio products through the product lifecycle to ensure the ability to offer customers competitive, CSR and legally approved saleable and billable products at all times.
• Responsible for product profitability which includes calculating and setting floor price for newly developed products
• Create and maintain roadmap for development and launch of products and features within the product area
• Continuously collect market/regulatory/competitor input as well as customer feedback from various sources, and define requirements for new/improved products/features
• Manage prioritization in various forums within DES as well as product feedback log for the product area
• Active support to DES Market Operations on product related topics
• Develop and maintain relationships with external partners such as wholesalers and technical partners, as well as internal stakeholders within BU/BA/Waterfall incl. maintaining ownership of contracts with technical partners in the product area
• Monitor product performance from relevant perspectives and take action when needed
• Contribute to business development: Develop and improve the methods required for product management and ensure compliance with Vattenfall rules and regulations

Qualifications

• Academic degree as Civil Engineer or equivalent
• Minimum 7-9 years of experience in a similar position
• Experience working as a product manager or leading large projects with many stakeholders
• Good understanding of the energy landscape
• Good understanding of the opportunities in the rapidly emerging digital space
• Good understanding of the business logic of different business segments
• Fluent oral/written in Swedish and English. Finnish is a merit.

As a person you need the following abilities

• An ability to not only understand customer needs but also to translate into relevant and high quality offers, services and solutions
• "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 subscribe 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 mindset
• 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.

Place of employment

Solna

For questions about the recruitment process, please contact recruiter Elisabeth Hagman at elisabeth.hagman@vattenfall.com. Trade union representatives via Vattenfall's switchboard, 08 739 50 00 Rolf Olsson (Akademikerna), Simon Salomonsson (Unionen), Cecilia Bodin (Ledarna), Mikael Mukka (SEKO)

Please send your application no later than 16/3. Please apply only with your CV, we do not accept Personal Letters. Selection and interviews will take place after the application deadline. We only accept applications via our website.