Senior Business Excellence Advisor

Drive standardization and business excellence in Solar and Batteries at Vattenfall!

Are you ready to lead initiatives that focus on standardization, digitalization and business excellence in a dynamic international environment? Join us as Senior Business Excellence Advisor – Document Management and help shape the future to fossil freedom!

Business Unit (BU) Solar & Batteries is part of Vattenfall’s Business Area Wind, which is responsible for Vattenfall’s renewable activities within Wind, Solar PV, and Battery Storage. Today, BA Wind develops, constructs, and operates renewable generation in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK. BU Solar & Batteries is responsible for all large-scale solar and battery development and has the purpose to enable fossil-free living within one generation through profitable solar and battery assets. To fulfill this purpose, BU SoBa is active along the whole value chain, from early-stage development to operation.

As Senior Business Excellence Advisor – Document Management, you will join the Portfolio Strategy & Business Excellence team within Portfolio and Asset Management. You will proactively shape and lead best-practice document management initiatives and improvements across Solar & Batteries, representing the BU in cross-functional programs. You will also support business excellence activities related to digitalization and standardization.

This role increases document management standards across the Solar & Batteries business unit and drives overall document management maturity. In parallel, the role acts as a project manager for related business excellence initiatives that enhance SoBa’s long-term performance, efficiency, and competitiveness. By aligning document governance, business processes, people practices, and improvement activities with organisational objectives, the role strengthens operational discipline and supports sustained business performance. Importantly, the position also represents SoBa in broader Vattenfall-wide projects and forums relating to ensure the BU’s needs are included in group-wide improvement and document management initiatives.

Your Responsibilities

• Proactively develop, own and implement the strategy for document management in Solar and Batteries
• Drive and coordinate document management initiatives, including ongoing SharePoint improvements, ensuring alignment with Vattenfall frameworks, compliance requirements and BU strategic objectives
• Communicate the document management framework, standards, and best practices across the BU, educating stakeholders, including the management team, and ensuring clear understanding and consistent adoption.
• Represent the BU in cross-BA or company-wide document management initiatives, ensuring SoBa’s voice is heard and requirements are met
• Support with business excellence initiatives in the digital, data acquisition or process-related areas, driving efficiency and standardization in the BU
• Collaborate actively with cross-functional stakeholders, building your reputation as a trusted advisor and embracing BU SoBa’s Holacracy way of working concept.

Your Profile

• 5+ years’ professional experience, focused on document management, digital and/or standardization topics. Energy or utilities background is a plus.
• SharePoint: Extensive knowledge and hands-on practical implementation capabilities are mandatory
• A proactive mindset with strong strategic, problem-solving, and creative thinking abilities.
• A track record of success driving business excellence or improvement initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience in project/program management and stakeholder management.
• Experience working with and presenting to management.

Your Mindset

• Passionate about shaping a sustainable energy future with strong interest in Solar & Batteries technologies.
• Structured, proactive, and comfortable working in an evolving and fast-paced environment. We are specifically looking for someone who flourishes in a self-organizing context as we are working with Holacracy.
• Able to balance big-picture thinking with analysis and attention to detail.
• Strong stakeholder manager, excellent communicator, cooperative and caring team player.
• Self-starter with a can-do attitude, committed to delivering results and taking ownership.

Our offer

Good remuneration, a challenging and international work environment, and the possibility to work with some of the best in the field. You will be working in interdisciplinary teams and you can always count on support from committed colleagues. We offer attractive employment conditions and opportunities for personal and professional development. 

• Dynamic Workplace: A diverse environment characterized by team spirit and flexibility.
• Professional Growth: Opportunities for career advancement in a growing sector.
• Inclusive Culture: A supportive and inclusive workplace that values diversity and encourages collaboration.
• Attractive employment conditions: A comprehensive remuneration, flexible working hours and locations, two brand new offices in Hamburg and Berlin, employee health and sport support.

More Information 
We welcome your application in English no later than, January 11, 2026. 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 Sandra Domschke via email: sandra1.domschke@vattenfall.de 

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. 

Since Vattenfall is a part of the Swedish critical infrastructure, many of our services are security classed. If this position is security classified the final candidates might be subject to a security vetting process, according to Swedish legislation. 

We look forward to receiving your application! 

Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 20 000 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.