Director Commodities

Do you want to lead a key department that plays a central role in the Nordic electricity markets? As Director Commodities within Customers Nordic, you will have strategic and operational responsibility for a business that is crucial to our success. You will be part of the management team, lead approximately 50 employees and have overall responsibility for our electricity product portfolio. The role gives you the opportunity to drive innovation, digitalization and business development in a dynamic and changing market and with great scope to influence.

Job description
In the role of Head of Commodities, one of five departments within Customers Nordic, you will be a key member of our management team. You lead an organization with about 50 employees, divided into five subdivisions, all with their own managers who report to you. The majority of the team is located in Solna, but you also have employees in Helsinki and responsibility for operations in all Nordic countries. You are active in all Nordic electricity markets and report directly to VP Customers Nordic.

In your assignment, you are responsible together with your team for ensuring the physical electricity supply for our customers. You drive the development of products and services that enable customer based flexibility in the TSOs' ancillary  market. Your department has ownership of the electricity product portfolio, from product development to product management, and is responsible for ensuring that the portfolio is profitable, sustainable and competitive.

To succeed in the role, you will bring:

• Relevant university degree or equivalent work experience, preferably in commodities 
• Good knowledge of the physical and financial electricity market
• Experience and ability to drive digital development and process improvement
• Experience and skill in leading in continuous change
• Very good knowledge of Swedish and English, both orally and in writing

As a person, you have a strong analytical ability and a deep understanding of what creates value in the business. You thrive in close collaboration with people and the sales organizations and you see collaboration as a key to success. With a genuine motivation to drive digitalization, automation and efficiency, you are a change leader who inspires others. Your business orientation allows you to combine a strategic and commercial focus with operational drive, and you have a desire to see people grow and develop in their roles. For you, leadership becomes not just a responsibility, but an opportunity to create commitment and build the skills of the future.

In addition to helping shape the smart energy society of the future, we offer you a developing and varied job with many interfaces. 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 shortening of working hours, favorable occupational pension agreements, parental leave supplement and more. Read more about our benefits here.  

Location: Solna. Some travel may occur.

For more information about the position, please contact Recruiting Manager Branislav Slavic, branislav.slavic@vattenfall.com. For questions about the recruitment process, please contact recruiter Peter Blixter, +46722373202. Due to the holiday season, replies to inquiries might be delayed 

Union representatives are Patrik Andersson (Akademikerna), Cecilia Bodin (Ledarna), Jan Svensson (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 20th January 2026. You apply easily by answering selection questions and attaching your CV. We only accept applications through our website. 

Working at Vattenfall means working with critical societal infrastructure. Therefore, many of our positions are security classified, and you may be assigned a wartime placement.
If this position is security classified, a security clearance will be carried out before employment, in accordance with the Security Protection Act. Any potential wartime placement is based on the employment contract and the Swedish Total Defence Service Act.

We look forward to receiving your application! 

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 20,000 employees. We have been electrifying industries, powering homes and transforming life through innovation for more than 100 years. We now want to enable the fossil freedom that drives society forward and we are driving the transition to a sustainable energy system.