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stillingsbetegnelse: Service Specialist - Onshore Wind Procurement

jobbeskrivelse:

As the company’s ambitions for growth in renewable energy increases, the demand for procurement expertise grows. We are therefore looking for the right person to join our Category Management (CAM) team responsible for Onshore Wind Procurement Service Specialist.

As an Onshore Service Specialist within Business Area Wind, working in an outstanding  commercial and international environment, you will have a significant impact on Vattenfall realising its transition to a more sustainable energy portfolio by securing the necessary equipment and services at best value for the company.

The Onshore Wind Procurement team is part of a fast evolving business and our successful candidate is a strategic thinker with a commercial focus building on the foundations already established throughout the last years of development. You will be engaging with the WTG supply chain, executives internally and externally to define category and procurement strategies as well as identifying novel market approaches to maximize the company’s profitability. The Service Specialists  role is to own all commercial aspects for new wind turbine service agreements including supplier relationship management (“SRM”), standard contracts, contracting strategies and negotiations, supply/demand market understanding and price forecasting, with a view to drive down the Levelized Energy Cost for our wind farms.

Mirroring our development, construction and operation activities, the successful candidate will be based in in one of our core locations (Stockholm, Kolding, Hamburg, London or Amsterdam) whilst remaining flexible with travel to other locations.

Key Responsibilities
• Maintain suitable SRM processes, starting from tiering of suppliers, regular forums and escalation as per defined process, building relationships at the different levels of the supplier and BA/procurement organizations
• Develop and maintain standard service agreements based on best practices and lessons learned, ensure application to projects
• Develop/maintain contracting strategies
• Collaborate with Onshore O&M & project functions as well as Heads of O&M and Asset Management to align renegotiation/extensions of existing service agreements, as well as standard service strategy / fleet wide initiatives
• Create and maintain service price benchmarks for the installed fleet and new agreements
• Liaise with Onshore Wind Turbine Category Manager to leverage wind turbine OEMs relations as well as explore fleet wide upgrade and retrofit potentials
• Provide optimized budget/bid assumptions all the way to delivery of the specific projects, ensuring the commitments made in the bids/budget are fulfilled
Support the relevant tendering programme manager to tender and negotiate new service agreements

Skills, Qualifications & Experience
• Minimum of three years’ experience in the wind business, with deep expertise on WTG Service Agreements.
• Demonstrable experience across the procurement skillset and experience of Foundation or similar  procurement processes.
• Good understanding of people and culture in working across multiple business functions and locations.
• Co-operative team player with solid interpersonal skills.
• Strong consultancy skills and able to support, advise, guide and challenge across all aspects of Procurement.
• Experience in solving with strategic issues / problems and strategy development.
• Strong initiative with a high sense of responsibility and willingness to perform.
• Experience with stakeholder management
• It is a plus if you have experience from working within a large matrix organization.

Trade union representatives in Sweden, to be contacted through Vattenfall’s switchboard, +46 8 739 50 00:
Rolf Ohlsson - Akademikernas, Christer Gustafsson – Ledarna, Leif Karlsson - SEKO, Anders Bohlin – Unionen.

For more information about the position you are welcome to contact recruiting  manager Jan-Ola Allbäck, +46 72 743 90 30. For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact Daniel Ruja, +46 70 372 76 91.

We welcome your application in English, including CV and cover letter via the link further down the page, no later than November 30th 2018.

We look forward to your application!

Vattenfall is Europe’s 7th largest electricity generator and the largest producer of heat and operates in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands and the UK. Our strategy is to reduce emissions from power generation with a road map to achieve climate neutrality by 2050.

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