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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. The Vattenfall Group has approximately 20,000 employees. We have electrified industries, delivered energy to homes, and transformed lives through innovation for over a hundred years. We now want to enable fossil-free living and drive the transition to a sustainable energy system.

Vattenfall Eldistribution AB distributes electricity to households, businesses, and communities – around the clock, year-round. Our electricity network is over 12,000 kilometers long, and we distribute electricity to nearly 900,000 customers. We build, operate, maintain, and invest in our electricity network to ensure reliable delivery for our customers. Learn more about us at: www.vattenfalleldistribution.se

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 takes great responsibility for creating a fossil-free Sweden, where a stable electricity network is a prerequisite for success. We need you to get there. Do you want to make a real difference in helping Sweden succeed with the energy transition and achieve climate goals?

As the department head for Project Performance and Support (commonly referred to as the Project Office), you will lead, inspire, and engage employees who manage, develop, and support the implementation of the company's portfolio of investment projects. The department's purpose is to create the best possible conditions for maintaining effective and sustainable quality in the planning and execution of facility investments in the regional and local networks. The work is driven by the needs of the business, and there are currently 11 employees in the department.

Project Performance and Support currently has assignments within:

• Quality assurance and management of methods, working practices, and tools within program and project management, methodology for time and resource planning, risk management, structure for unit-wide governing documents and guidelines, as well as several information management systems.
• Leading, coordinating, and quality assuring the Operational unit's information management, business risks, and quality assurance of the use of SAP/PPM, as well as training coordination.
• Support and coordination, including operational support to projects and programs within risk and uncertainty analysis, SharePoint, information security, time and resource planning, as well as program and project management.

In addition to leading and being responsible for the department's deliveries, your main responsibilities will include:

• Coordinating and, if necessary, representing the unit in unit-wide issues.
• Leading our continued development of working methods for existing and potentially new areas of expertise.
• You will report to the unit manager for Portfolio and Program Management and be part of the unit's management team.

Requirements

We are looking for someone who has

• A university degree, preferably as a civil engineer or business economist, or equivalent qualifications.
• Experience as a manager or leader and has worked in larger organizations.
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal. Proficient in Swedish and English.
• Experience with business-oriented projects, preferably from the contracting or energy sector.

To succeed in this role, you are communicative and have the ability to capture the needs of the business and drive value-creating business development within the department's areas of responsibility. You need to be delivery-focused and solution-oriented, as well as able to adapt to a high pace of change with varying needs.

You are driven to develop both people and working methods and have the ability to inspire and create engagement among your employees. Furthermore, you have a good ability to build trust and collaborate with others to achieve results in a common goal. To succeed in this role, we believe you are confident and credible in your leadership and enjoy leading your employees through changes.

Additional Information

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 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 we operate in.

We also have a number of other employee benefits, such as reduced working hours, favorable pension agreements, parental leave supplements, and more. Read more here: Compensation & Benefits - Vattenfall SE

Learn more about us at: 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 highlighting 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, Trollhättan, or Luleå

Contact Persons

If you want to know more about the position, contact the recruiting manager Pernilla Ngo Magnusson, [email protected]

For more information about the recruitment process, contact recruiter Jessica Petersson, 070-0398 770, [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.

Does this sound like an exciting challenge? We look forward to your application by February 2nd. We only accept applications through our career page.

Vattenfall Eldistribution AB is part of Sweden's critical infrastructure, and many of our services are security classified. If this position is security classified, a security review will be conducted before employment, in accordance with the Security Protection Act. In addition to the security review, a drug test will be conducted.