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. Our goal is fossil-free. We work for a future where everyone can choose fossil-free ways of moving, manufacturing and living.
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
Do you want an exciting everyday life and work for a fossil-free future? As a Program Manager with us, you will be able to influence tomorrow's climate-smart society and create the electricity grid of the future.
Sweden has embarked on a historic transition and is facing a comprehensive electrification of society. To demonstrate our ambition to contribute to the energy transition and to continue to enable increased electrification of Sweden, we aim to distribute twice as much electricity in our electricity grid by 2030 and to transmit electricity with 99.99% reliability.
This means that we need to continue to grow and are now looking for a Program Manager for Program Management at Vattenfall Eldistribution.
Responsibilities
As a Program Manager with us, you are responsible for leading and managing investment programs within Asset Investment and delivering against set goals with a focus on time, cost and content. The programs include projects such as new and rebuilding in the electricity network, such as stations, cables and overhead lines with associated technology. You will:
- ensure program delivery and progress through financial, strategic and tollgate decisions
- support and guide project managers, monitor results and make decisions on strategically important issues and priorities in the program
- as a project sponsor and contract representative, be the face of the program to contractors, suppliers and customers
- contribute to the development of program management and drive the change work needed
To help you and your program team, you have support functions and a program steering group. Reporting to the Head of Program Management, you will manage both internal and external contacts such as client dialogues, portfolio steering group, portfolio managers and lead project managers.
You will be part of a team of senior program managers who value proactivity, engagement and open dialogue. We have high standards and together we challenge and deliver results.
Travel in the service occurs.
Requirement specification
- Academic education or longer experience of project and program management that is considered equivalent
- Several years of experience working with projects with results and budget responsibility
- Experience and good understanding of program management
- Contract law (AB, ABT)
- IPMA/PMP certified or equivalent
- Very good ability to express yourself in both speech and writing in Swedish and English
It is meritorious if you have experience of the following
- Construction work environment coordination (BAS P/U) and work environment issues
- Negotiation and negotiation
- Proactive collaboration and ombudsman role
- Permit procedure, consultation or concession issues
- Construction and civil engineering
- Electric power and electrical systems
- Experience in managing project activities
To succeed in the role, it is important that you are a confident leader who is used to dealing with many interfaces both internally and externally, which has made you a good communicator, leader and negotiator. With an unpretentious and clear leadership style, you are skilled at building teams where people develop and thrive. You are used to working in a structured and solution-oriented way and drive your work independently in collaboration with the team around you.
Further information
We offer
In addition to helping shape the smart energy society of the future, we offer a workplace with good opportunities for development. Here you get the opportunity to work close to the business with leadership and have the opportunity to influence and drive development in program management. 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 want our staff to 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. Find out more about us at: www.vattenfalleldistribution.se
We also have a wide range 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
Luleå, Trollhättan or Solna.
More information
For more information about the position itself, please contact Recruiting Manager Erika Björk, +46 702-84 15 79.
For questions about the recruitment process, please contact Recruiter Caroline Grammenos, +46 722-24 97 01.
Union representatives via Vattenfall's switchboard, +46 8 739 50 00
Christian Ericsson, Ledarna, Anne-Marie Sjöbohm, Akademikerna, Asim Nokic, Unionen, Ulf Tengman, SEKO
Please send your application no later than February 23, 2025. Selection and interviews will take place after the closing date. We only accept applications via our website.
We look forward to your application!
Vattenfall 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.
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