Manager for External Portfolio Management

Empower customers. Enable transformation. Shape the future.

Are you ready to lead the way in external portfolio management and help our customers navigate a complex and evolving energy landscape?

Join Vattenfall and become a key player in enabling our customers to access energy markets efficiently, securely, and sustainably. We are now looking for a Manager for External Portfolio Management to strengthen our team with a focus on customer onboarding, market access, and financial trading.

Your main responsibilities:

• Act as the main interface to customers, internal BU Trading, Compliance, Renewables portfolio management and Commodity Origination
• Provide access to energy markets for external customers and support their onboarding
• Administer customer contracts and transactions, including execution services and pricing desk operations
• Drive standardization and compliance in a dynamic and regulated environment
• Take responsibility for a €10 million budget and ensure delivery of agreed services
• Decide on feasibility and go/no-go for new service developments

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. 

Business Area (BA) Markets’ role in Vattenfall is to maximize the value of the overall portfolio by optimizing and dispatching, hedging, and sourcing for Vattenfall's sales and generation volumes. We serve as Vattenfall’s single access to energy commodity markets and trade electricity, emissions, fuels, freight, and renewable certificates. We employ around 500 professionals who are active across Europe with offices in Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.

Within Markets BU Customers is enabling both Vattenfall and our customers to become fossil free. We do this by offering power purchase agreements to operators of wind or solar parks and by connecting customers to fossil free electricity. We provide market access services to large customers and (regional) energy suppliers and connect demand-side flexibility of industry to stabilize the electricity grid. We furthermore source electricity for Vattenfall’s consumer- and business customers with a strong focus to increase renewable sources of electricity.

We have a culture of care and growth. You will collaborate with inspiring people around you, on complex and interesting topics. Together, we drive the energy transition and contribute to a journey towards becoming fossil-free.

Your profile – you should also recognize yourself in:

• University degree (Master's) with a minimum of 3 years of managerial experience
• At least 5 years of experience in portfolio management or a related field
• Strong knowledge of financial regulation and compliance topics
• Skilled in stakeholder management and building trust across business areas
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with a focus on people and change management
• Ability to translate complex information and regulations into clear operational processes
• Experience working in an international and multi-market context is a plus

What you get:

• A leadership role with 8 direct reports and significant impact on our market-facing operations
• Opportunity to work internationally and collaborate with major external customers and partners (e.g. BASF)
• A role at the heart of energy market transformation, with strong links to commodity sales and innovation
• A supportive, professional environment within a well-established and trusted energy company

Benefits

Your development is a priority at Vattenfall BA Markets. Your professional journey will benefit from working in the exciting industry of energy trading, and in interdisciplinary teams. To support your career, we offer opportunities to grow through training, job rotations, talent programs and a working environment that stimulates learning.

Our work culture at Vattenfall is excellent. We have an open corporate culture with flat hierarchies. Modern and flexible working conditions, including mobile work, promote wellbeing. In Germany, our work week consists of 37.5 hours with, in many cases, the possibility to work part-time. Up to 49% of your working time can be mobile work, and you are entitled to 30 days of vacation per year.

Your health is important to us. We provide several health programs and support throughout potentially challenging life situations.

Your colleagues will be another highlight. We employ inspiring people with diverse backgrounds. Together with our culture and your tasks, they form an interesting and fun place to work.

You can find our new state of the art office next to Elbbrücken.

More information 
We welcome your application in English, no later than 13th of June 2025. 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 Jil Ungethüm via phone at +49 40 79022 1378.

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, called Validata. In addition, a certificate of good conduct (i.e. criminal record certificate) is required for certain positions.
 

We look forward to receiving your application!