Senior Strategy Advisor

Job Description

Are you looking for a key role in strategic decision making towards a fossil-free future? Interested to take lead on Vattenfall’s scenario development for long-term electricity prices on the energy market? Then this is the opportunity for you!

Market Insights is looking for a Senior Strategy Advisor

Strategy & Business Development (S&BD)

Market Insights is part of Group Strategy & Business Development (S&BD). We believe in, and have good experience with, mobility within S&BD and to other departments within Vattenfall, to offer personal development opportunities and increased knowledge sharing within the company.

The main deliverable of the Market Insights team is Long-Term Market Outlook (LTMO), a scenario-based framework for power price development, which is used throughout Vattenfall for strategic decision making and asset valuation. With the LTMO, market, political and societal trends are translated into scenarios and ultimately into insights suitable for strategic decision making and testing business opportunities. As Senior Strategy Advisor you are an experienced economic expert in the field of the European power markets, scenario developing, leading several economic and political market analyses as well as fundamental power market modelling. This will be a perfect chance to live your affinity for economic analyses, to derive insightful analyses and to improve Vattenfall’s understanding of the future electricity system. And you will have the possibility to work closely with stakeholders on different levels across Vattenfall.

What will you do?

• Leading energy economic analyses in the context of the LTMO by creating a view on key European power market drivers such as renewables, flexibility, market design and capacity build out

• Leading scenario design and modelling, performing and driving fundamental economic and political analysis providing strategic insights to our corporate strategy process as well as our strategic external positioning

• You will work close with the business Director Market Insights, and our Product Owners “LTMO”, Modelling & Fundament al Analysis as well as our Product Owner Digital Transformation & Data Analytics

Location Amsterdam

Qualifications

Who are you? As a Senior Strategy Advisor you must have at least 5 years of experience at an energy company, financial institution or other knowledge-focused firm or institution; experience with energy markets and market design.

• Academic degree in (Energy) Economics, Econometrics, Business or similar. PhD preferred.

• Profound analytical skills. Demonstrated success in scenario modelling affinity with data, leading and driving economic analysis and fundamental modelling in a team-oriented environments, with a self-starting and entrepreneurial mindset

• Proven ability to interpret and derive insight from complex quantitative data and information

• Good interpersonal and liaising skills. Good leaderships and communication skills, a compelling storyteller, comfortable in addressing executive management, topical experts and stakeholders with different backgrounds

• Advanced in English, both verbally, visually and in writing; command of Swedish, German or Dutch is a plus.

Additional Information

Our offer
The height of your salary is based on your education and relevant work experience. The salary for this position ranges from €5.500,- to €7.250,-. In addition to your salary, we offer a comprehensive secondary benefits package, the most important components of which are:

• End of year bonus of 4.5% of your annual salary and a profit sharing of up to 3.5% of your annual salary based on the results of Vattenfall Netherlands.
• NS Business card for commuting or a travel allowance of €0.23per km up to a maximum of 50 km one way.
• 25 vacation days, 2.5 vitality days, and for a 40-hour contract: 13 ADV (reduction of working hours) days.
• Choice budget, which allows you to purchase or sell extra vacation days, buy a e-bicycle, or simply receive it as addition pay.
• Education budget, because we believe it isimportant that you can continue to develop yourself.

At Vattenfall, there is a close team culture while also providing ample room for individual initiative.

At our company, hybrid working is the norm, meaning you will work at the office at least 50% of the time. Most of your colleagues prefer to work the remaining 50% of their time from home, but the choice is entirely yours. At Vattenfall, we highly value a good work-life balance and continuously seek ways in which we can contribute to this as an employer. More Information
We welcome your application in English, no later than, 1st of July 2024. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to process applications that are not made via our website. For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our recruiter Joany van Megen via email: [email protected].

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation.

The security of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. For that reason, a pre-employment screening will be part of your recruitment process. The screening is based on the role you will fulfill within Vattenfall. The screening will be performed by a third party, Validata.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Company Description

Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 21 000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We now want to make fossil-free living possible within one generation. To be able to reach this ambitious goal we are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission.