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Company Description

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 United Kingdom. Within the Vattenfall Group, there are approximately 20,000 employees. We have electrified industries, delivered energy to homes, and transformed lives through innovation for over a hundred years. Our goal is fossil freedom. We work for a future where everyone can choose fossil-free ways to move, manufacture, and live.

Vattenfall Eldistribution AB belongs to the Business Area Distribution and distributes electricity to households, businesses, and communities – around the clock, all year round. Our electricity network is over 12,000 miles long, and we distribute electricity to about 900,000 customers. We build, operate, maintain, and invest in our electricity network to ensure reliable delivery for you as a customer.

Read more about us at https://www.vattenfalleldistribution.se/om-oss/ (https://www.vattenfalleldistribution.se/om-oss/)

About the Role

An exciting everyday life – for a fossil-free future. With us, you will have the opportunity to influence tomorrow's climate-smart society and create the electricity network of the future. Vattenfall Eldistribution is part of the Vattenfall Distribution business area and is at the heart of the energy transition, playing a central role in the powerful electrification currently taking place at the societal level. The Distribution business area has about 4,500 employees in Sweden, and in addition to regulated electricity network operations, it includes field service operations - Vattenfall Service Nordic and Vattenfall Network Solutions, which provides Power-as-a-Service solutions to corporate customers.

We are looking for someone who wants to take on the task of leading and developing the Strategy & Operational Excellence unit within Vattenfall's Swedish electricity network operations; Vattenfall Distribution. You will also have a coordinating role within the entire Distribution business area for your area of responsibility and collaborate with corresponding functions towards the Vattenfall Group.

About the Position

As the head of a newly established Strategy & Operational Excellence unit, you will be responsible for the company's function for Strategy and Operational Excellence.

The unit's main areas of responsibility are;

• Develop the business area's operational strategy, drive strategic analyses, projects, and initiatives.
• Be responsible for and coordinate the business area's operational efficiency program in close collaboration with the Vattenfall Group for continuous improvements.
• Identify, drive, and coordinate strategic influence issues.
• Drive the business in continuous development and efficiency. Manage and develop frameworks and models for the company's business development and process work.

In the role of Director Strategy & Operational Excellence, you will have two direct-reporting managers with approximately 25 employees primarily located in Solna. You will report to the head of the business area's management - VP Business Control & Operational Excellence and be part of the management team for the business support function Business Control & Operational Excellence. Your main collaboration points are with the CEO, other support functions, and the operational units within Vattenfall Eldistribution as well as with corresponding functions in other legal entities within the business area. Within your area of responsibility, you are responsible for leading and developing the unit in line with the company's leadership principles; driving innovation, accelerating learning, and connecting people.

Requirements Specification

• Relevant academic degree.
• Extensive experience in a leadership position with responsibility for strategy – preferably from a larger organization/consulting firm.
• Documented experience in operational efficiency and process work.
• Documented experience working independently with company management and decision-makers.
• Documented experience from companies/industries that have undergone significant change where you have led, for example, strong growth/transformation or similar.
• Fluent in Swedish and English, both spoken and written.

We are looking for a senior leader with an inclusive and coaching approach. You have the ability to develop both teams and individuals in a way that strengthens the group and the business. Furthermore, you have solid communication skills and excellent leadership qualities to collaborate and lead managers as well as drive change in complex issues. You drive innovation and lead your team and area forward by seeing opportunities and solutions. You thrive in change and remain steadfast when conditions change. As a person, you are positive, active, and open, creating a work environment where your colleagues can develop.

Additional Information

We Offer

In addition to being part of shaping the future's smart energy society, we offer a workplace with good opportunities for development. We encourage you to move forward and explore new areas within the company. With our career and development model, we aim to create clarity about the opportunities you have to develop in the direction you want. It is important that life works as a whole, and therefore we are keen that our employees experience a good balance between work and leisure. We are convinced that diversity and inclusion lead to innovation, improved business results, and increased engagement, and we strive to represent the diversity among our customers and the society in which we operate.

Read more about us at: www.vattenfalleldistribution.se (www.vattenfalleldistribution.se)

As a manager at Vattenfall Eldistribution, you are motivated to drive transformation by:

• Engaging your employees to participate in development work
• Being responsible for raising new business development needs
• Taking clear sponsorship, including responsibility for benefit realization for our business development projects
• Being responsible for the reception and compliance with new working methods

Location: Solna, with the possibility of hybrid work.

For more information about the position, contact the recruiting manager Kristina Emanuelsson at phone 076 767 39 57. For questions about the recruitment process, contact recruiter Kajsa Loman, [email protected].

Union representatives for this position are Christian Ericsson, Ledarna, Anne-Marie Sjöbohm, Akademikerna, Asim Nokic, Unionen, Ulf Tengman, SEKO. All contact persons can be reached via Vattenfall's switchboard at 08-739 50 00.

Welcome with your application by February 2, 2025. We only accept applications via our website.

We are convinced that diversity contributes to building a more profitable and appealing company and strive to be good role models when it comes to diversity.