Head of Power Portfolio Strategy (f/m/d)

Our Power Portfolio Strategy team in Düsseldorf is looking for you!

We are Uniper

At Uniper, we are pro-actively transforming the world of energy whilst at the same time ensuring security of energy supply. As an internationally operating company, we work in very diverse teams with the greatest possible working time flexibility for our employees. Our corporate culture is characterized by equal opportunities, mutual appreciation, and respect. With us, you will be able to develop new business models, work on technological solutions for a modern, sustainable, and future-oriented energy supply as well as pro-actively help to shape changes. Interested? Then we will look forward to meeting you!

Your responsibilities

1. Reporting to Director of Power Portfolio Strategy and Optimization
2. Steering the profitability of the wholesale Uniper Power business across Nordics, UK and CEE, by understanding and influencing commercial risk exposures
3. Developing and implementing overarching hedging strategies for the Group's power portfolio providing an optimum balance of commodity risk and reward
4. Understanding and considering implications on credit and liquidity risk within given frameworks
5. Overseeing and challenging the individual portfolio's hedging strategies considering Group risk boundaries and financial objectives
6. Validating position, PnL and risk reports and accuracy of underlying mathematical models
7. Managing stakeholder relationships, within CCO Power, e.g. Market Access, as well as within Uniper; in particular towards CRO-Teams, Controlling and Group Finance, as well as towards Asset and Commercial Teams, e.g., Energy Assets, Sales, Origination, ensuring alignment of the overall hedging approach and necessary inputs
8. Building trust across the wider Uniper business by creating transparency of commercial risks and positions across the end-to-end power business
9. Leading a team of experts and manage all aspects of team performance to ensure an effective, lean, efficient, commercially focused team, whilst delivering excellent financial results

Your profile

1. Educated to a degree level or equivalent in a relevant subject: e.g. engineering, economics, mathematics; additional commercial management qualification advantageous
2. Minimum of five years' experience of trading and optimization, with P&L responsibility
3. Team leadership experience (line management preferred; project management accepted) and successful track record in a commercial environment
4. Excellent commercial awareness and detailed knowledge of physical and financial energy markets
5. Strong understanding of and affinity to financial hedging instruments, quantitative models and structures
6. Awareness and good understanding of IT applications for optimization & trading
7. Intercultural effectiveness - steering and influencing at all levels of the organization
8. Strong Stakeholder management skills - demonstrated ability to link different teams to deliver improvements in overall performance
9. Good communicational skills with ability to target communication to different needs of an audience
10. Experience of operating in an international environment
11. Ability to drive change and deliver exceptional results
12. Fluent in English is essential; other EU language would be appreciated

At Uniper, we not only reward our employees with attractive salaries, an excellent company pension and health related benefits for their hard work and dedication to shaping the future energy transition. You can also expect a supportive working culture that offers a wide range of creative and innovative ideas. We enable various flexible working arrangements, whilst also supporting with home office equipment.

Through regular training and workshops, together we work towards visualising yourself in our company as if it were your own. We support you in highlighting your individual potential, achieving your personal goals, and reaching your ambitions. We invite you to become part of our diverse company with international colleagues from more than 80 countries. As an employer, Uniper has committed itself to providing special support to certain areas:

Work-Life-Balance / New Normal:

1. Choosing how, where, and when to work in accordance with your team and the requirements of your job
2. Modern and ergonomic equipment for your workplace (home & office)
3. Support to balance private life and work: Sabbaticals, part-time possibilities, family service

Mobility:

1. Car and bike leasing offer (deferred compensation)
2. E-car charging stations at almost all Uniper locations

Health offers:

1. Preventive health services
2. Employee assistance program

Company pension:

1. Employer-funded contributions to a modern pension system
2. Possibility of self-funded contributions with employer-funded matching

Trainings:

1. Lifelong training
2. Coaching

Our employees are the reason for our success. Therefore, you will find many other benefits at the local level to help you reach your potential. Energy evolutionary wanted!

Your contact

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at:

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As an employer, Uniper is committed to diversity and equal opportunities. Therefore, we encourage applications from suitably qualified individuals whose capabilities match the role requirements regardless of gender, origin, disability, age, religion, ideology, sexual identity or marital status. We live inclusion and support flexible working.