Offshore Wind Risk Manager

About the job

Do you want to shape the future?

We are offering an exciting opportunity as Offshore Wind Risk Manager to be an important part in paving the way for Vattenfall and its customers and partners towards a fossil free future!

As our new Offshore Wind Risk Manager you will work on our growing pipeline and asset base of Offshore projects. In this role you will help shape the development of our risk and opportunity management in our offshore business, which is instrumental to ensuring robust and informed decision making. 

Join our journey towards Fossil Free Living within one generation.

The “Risk & Opportunity Management” team is a commercial team that delivers end-to-end value for Vattenfall's offshore wind assets. The team collects all risk management disciplines over the life time of an asset, it makes sure identification of risk and opportunities is complete and prioritization and active mitigation or execution of risk responses take place. The team is responsible for delivering effective risk management for offshore wind projects, partnerships, assets and revenues across Northern Europe and the UK.

Main tasks and responsibilities

• Ensuring all risks, opportunities and uncertainties are identified, quantified, recorded and managed properly and timely, including possible dependencies between individual risks

• Collaborating with colleagues from several functions to continuously improve risk and uncertainty management of project and asset business cases

• Assigning risk and opportunity owners within the business and supporting them in identifying, describing, valuing, managing and monitoring their risks & opportunities

• Developing and producing clear and concise risk and opportunity reporting for senior management and Joint Venture partners, which will be used to both inform project and asset decision making and provide a realistic overview of the risk exposure faced by risk owners

• Identifying and implementing ways to improve the risk and opportunity management methodology and processes, ensuring that methods are applied consistently across the lifecycle and be flexible where acceptable

• Developing strategies for dealing with residual risk and assisting in business continuity plans

• Educating the project and asset teams by fostering transparency and a healthy risk culture

Location  
The location of this position is flexible, and can be based in one of our core locations (Stockholm, London, Hamburg, Berlin, Amsterdam or Kolding). 

Your profile

For succeeding in the role

You are an experienced and pro-active Risk Manager with an analytical mindset and the ability to make sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems. You can easily build partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. You relate openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people. You are action oriented and consistently setting goals for yourself and taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.

Furthermore you have:

• An academic background in Finance, Engineering, Commercial or Risk Management

• Minimum 2 years of experience in risk management

• Experience in CAPEX or OPEX risk management in ideally large projects

• Familiarity with ARM or similar software such as Safran and @Risk or Excel based analysis

• Excellent English communication skills both written and spoken

• Excellent numerical and analytical skills

• Structured worker with ability to structure work of others

• Experience and keen interest in working in projects with broadly defined, abstract, and/or shifting targets, including being communicative and proactively involved in sharing any new ideas or thoughts

Additional information

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. 

More Information 
We welcome your application (including CV and motivation letter) in English, no later than, 19th of March. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website due to GDPR. 
 
For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our recruiter Antje Niklas Rehn via mail: antje.niklasrehn@vattenfall.com. '

Since Vattenfall is a Swedish state owned company and part of the Swedish critical infrastructure many of our positions are security classed. For this position the final candidate will be subject to pre-employment screening process.

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. 
 
We look forward to receiving your application! 

About the company

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.