Head of Market Access & Intraday Solutions

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.

In BA Markets the mission of the Unit OU Operations is to drive the digital transformation. OU Operations consists of diverse and highly skilled employees from more than 20 countries. We work internationally from our locations in Stockholm, Hamburg and Amsterdam.

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.

Are you passionate about making a real impact in the energy sector? Do you enjoy leading people, fostering innovation, and shaping the future of energy trading? Then we might have the perfect opportunity for you - as our new Head of Market Access & Intraday Solutions, based in Hamburg.

We are seeking a purpose-driven and experienced Team Manager to lead a multidisciplinary team comprising developers, application specialists and product owners. Your role will be to focus on people and team development, drive our agile transformation and foster a learning culture.

Your team is developing, maintaining and operating dedicated Business Area Markets IT applications for trade execution, processing and trading analysis and a self-developed platform for our intraday power trading activities. Most of these systems are running 24/7 – and are crucial for some of our core business processes. The line team is working in two agile teams, each with a dedicated product owner.

What you will do

• Lead and inspire your team by fostering a collaborative, supportive, and results-oriented environment
• Grow your people by offering regular feedback, coaching, and development opportunities—while creating a shared vision and mission with your product owners
• Support your product owners, enabling them to deliver maximum value to the business
• ​​​​​​​Drive agile transformation, encouraging the adoption and continuous improvement of agile ways of working
• ​​​​​​​Promote a learning culture, where curiosity, experimentation, and a growth mindset are part of the team DNA
• ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Encourage innovation, empowering your team to explore new ideas and technologies
• ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Engage with stakeholders to ensure alignment between your team’s work and our broader organizational goals
• ​​​​​​​Take on an active role within your team—either as a Scrum Master or Product Owner within your product portfolio
• ​​​​​​​Collaborate with fellow managers, contributing to cross-team alignment and innovation

What you will bring

• Proven leadership experience with a strong focus on people and team development
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies and a passion for continuous improvement
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build trust and foster collaboration
• A natural interest in learning, coaching, and building inclusive teams
• Experience or interest in process automation and AI
• Strategic mindset with the ability to translate vision into action
• Comfortable working in an international and fast-paced environment
• Ideally, experience in energy markets or trading systems

Why join us?

• Lead a talented, international, and gender-diverse team in a future-oriented sector
• Work at the forefront of energy trading and decarbonization
• Be part of a supportive, forward-thinking, and innovative culture
• Enjoy a competitive salary, benefits, and excellent development opportunities

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!