Senior Strategy Advisor

Our client is a leading European energy company, which for more than 100 years has electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernised the way of living through innovation and cooperation. They now want to make fossil-free living possible within one generation. That's why they are driving the transition to a sustainable energy system through initiatives in renewable production and climate smart energy solutions for their customers. They employ approximately 20,000 people and have operations mainly in Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and the UK.

Role Description:

• Market Insights is looking for a Senior Strategy Advisor 
• Strategy & Business Development (S&BD) 
• Market Insights is part of Group Strategy & Business Development (S&BD).
• We believe in, and have good experience with, mobility within S&BD and to other departments within our partner, to offer personal development opportunities and increased knowledge sharing within the company.
• The main deliverable of the Market Insights team is Long-Term Market Outlook (LTMO), a scenario-based framework for power price development, which is used throughout our partner for strategic decision making and asset valuation.
• With the LTMO, market, political and societal trends are translated into scenarios and ultimately into insights suitable for strategic decision making and testing business opportunities.
• As Senior Strategy Advisor you are an experienced economic expert in the field of the European power markets, scenario developing, leading several economic and political market analyses as well as fundamental power market modelling.
• This will be a perfect chance to live your affinity for economic analyses, to derive insightful analyses and to improve our clients understanding of the future electricity system.
• And you will have the possibility to work closely with stakeholders on different levels across our client.

Responsibilities:

• Leading energy economic analyses in the context of the LTMO by creating a view on key European power market drivers such as renewables, flexibility, market design and capacity build out 
• Leading scenario design and modelling, performing and driving fundamental economic and political analysis providing strategic insights to our corporate strategy process as well as our strategic external positioning  
• You will work close with the business Director Market Insights, and our Product Owners "LTMO", Modelling & Fundament al Analysis as well as our Product Owner Digital Transformation & Data Analytics

Requirements:

• As a Senior Strategy Advisor you must have at least 5 years of experience at an energy company, financial institution or other knowledge-focused firm or institution; experience with energy markets and market design.
• Academic degree in (Energy) Economics, Econometrics, Business or similar. PhD preferred.
• Profound analytical skills. Demonstrated success in scenario modelling affinity with data, leading and driving economic analysis and fundamental modelling in a team-oriented environments, with a self-starting and entrepreneurial mindset.
• Proven ability to interpret and derive insight from complex quantitative data and information.
• Good interpersonal and liaising skills.
• Good leaderships and communication skills, a compelling storyteller, comfortable in addressing executive management, topical experts and stakeholders with different backgrounds. 
• Advanced in English, both verbally, visually and in writing; command of Swedish, German or Dutch is a plus.

Additional Information:

Our offer.

• The height of your salary is based on your education and relevant work experience. The salary for this position ranges from €5.500,- to €7.250,-. In addition to your salary, we offer a comprehensive secondary benefits package, the most important components of which are:
• End of year bonus of 4.5% of your annual salary and a profit sharing of up to 3.5% of your annual salary based on the results of our partner in Netherlands.
• NS Business card for commuting or a travel allowance of €0.23 per km up to a maximum of 50 km one way.
• 25 vacation days, 2.5 vitality days, and for a 40-hour contract: 13 ADV (reduction of working hours) days.
• Choice budget, which allows you to purchase or sell extra vacation days, buy an e-bicycle, or simply receive it as addition pay.
• Education budget, because we believe it is important that you can continue to develop yourself.
• At our client, there is a close team culture while also providing ample room for individual initiative.
• At our company, hybrid working is the norm, meaning you will work at the office at least 50% of the time.
• Most of your colleagues prefer to work the remaining 50% of their time from home, but the choice is entirely yours.
• At our client, we highly value a good work-life balance and continuously seek ways in which we can contribute to this as an employer.

More Information:

• At our client we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be good role model regarding diversity.
• Our client 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.