Head of Meteorology Office recruitment

Asset Optimisation and Trading (AOT) is the Business Division where all Asset Optimisation and Trading activities are centralised for the Vattenfall Group. Our activities are multi-site located across Europe with more than 600 professionals working from Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and Poland. We trade the full range of energy commodities such as electricity, gas, oil, coal, freight, renewable energies and emissions, take responsibility for a diversified sourcing of power, fuels and carbon credits and optimize the running and hedging of Vattenfall’s generation assets. These efforts are the basis for maximum profitability and continuous business growth.

Vattenfall Energy Trading, the fast growing front-end business unit of AOT, is one of the leading energy trading and merchant businesses in Europe. Our multi-cultural trading team consists of more than 150 highly dedicated and skilled front-office energy experts, primarily Traders, Analysts and Originators. We generate maximum business value whilst providing tailor-made energy risk products, services and solutions in the area of energy commodity trading market access, fundamental and technical market analysis, energy asset hedging and directional trading strategies for the entire Vattenfall Group.

The European energy market is undertaking a fundamental change, essentially driven by the rapid growth of renewables. Weather will increasingly be one of the main driving factors how we optimize our Sales and Trading portfolios, our generation assets and how wholesale prices will materialise in general. Vattenfall, one of the biggest renewable power producing energy player in Europe, has also the strategic ambition to become one of the leading players within the renewables and biomass markets and will therefore be especially exposed to weather related risks.

The Assignment
This position will offer the possibility to become the leading member of the meteorology team. Today this team consists of meteorologists based in Hamburg, Amsterdam and in Stockholm. You will have a functional and strategic steering role for the work and evolution of this team, and the full responsibility for Vattenfall’s weather analysis. Your mission is to sharpen our operational support and excellence in this field and maximize our value impact on AOT businesses.

In your role as Head of Met Office you’ll mainly be working with:
• Develop and improve in-house weather forecasting abilities and services
• Full responsibility for setting up and execute the Met offices weather unit’s business plan
• Analyse weather exposures in all AOT businesses
• Act as chairman of the strategic Weather stream and define requirements towards the weather modelling group based at the operations’ department
• Develop necessary tools/systems/skills for matching service requirements
• Develop weather risk management methodologies
• Increase weather market intelligence
• Improve and maintain weather analysis co-ordination
• Define staffing plan for the function
• Foster weather related skill developments across the front-office

Qualifications
Top degree as BSc/MSc/PhD in Meteorology, alternatively relevant university degree paired with Meteorology courses. 

We believe that the ideal candidate has been working in this field for a number of years and has a deep understanding of the tasks involved. Meteorology experience and modelling skills are an advantage and the ability to grasp concepts behind weather models such as WRF. 

Leadership skills are as important as project management skills will be in this role. We expect a pro-active team player who’s structured, disciplined and driven to out-perform.  

Fluency in English is required. Swedish, German and/or Dutch are a merit. Openness for occasional travelling is needed.

Location
We are present in Stockholm, Hamburg, and Amsterdam, which are the possible locations for this position.

For questions regarding the position and the recruitment process, you are welcome to contact Recruiter Rogier Zevenbergen +31 6 4644 7931.

Please send your application with CV and personal letter through this page no later than Sep 30th.

We look forward to your application!