Commodity Originator

Commodity Originator

Vattenfall

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Your role

As our Commodity Originator you are expected to identify, develop, negotiate and implement new business opportunities as well as maintain regular semi-standard deals in order to develop our trading business and mitigate our risks. The main focus of the successful candidate will be to explore, acquire and onboard flexibility into Vattenfall’s portfolio, be it standalone assets or assets linked to system-integration projects. Deal closure includes all internal approvals by relevant committees and contract negotiation. There is also the chance to work on a varied range of structured energy commodity transactions and non-standard contracts covering power, gas, green certificates, CO₂, biomass and flexibility products, where Origination acts as the single interface to the market. You will join a diverse team where close cooperation with our trading and asset business units, as well as other important stakeholders is required. We expect that you will bring experience from one or several of the commodity areas we aim to strengthen.

You will have the following tasks and responsibilities:

• Identify structured / non-standard trading, asset & customer-based opportunities, mainly in the area of system flexibility and energy storage
• Identify potential new clients and follow-up on current leads
• Grow and innovate Vattenfall’s Origination business and drive PnL generation
• Manage and drive onboarding process for new counterparties until deal closure and follow up to ensure robust implementation
• Facilitate decision making processes, potentially involving executive group management
• Internal coordination with Legal, Trade Control, Reg Ops, Market and Credit Risk, Finance

Your profile

To be smoothly up and running in this role you bring these hard skills and personal characteristics:

• High degree of commercial focus, strong business acumen and PnL responsibility
• Ability to structure complex energy transactions, taking ownership and responsibility for deals in order to drive them from idea generation to deal closure
• Experience in physical and financial energy markets. Familiarity with energy storage systems is preferred
• Existing network in the energy trading market
• Strong self-motivation to achieve PnL in a challenging and rapidly evolving environment
• Fluent in English
• Perseverance & resilience
• Growth mindset that embraces opportunity and creativity
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• High assertiveness and solution-focused thinking

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