Head of Power Portfolio Strategy

Head of Power Portfolio Strategy

Uniper

Dusseldorf, Germany

Your responsibilities

• Reporting to Director of Power Portfolio Strategy and Optimization;
• Steering the profitability of the wholesale Uniper Power business across Nordics, UK and CEE, by understanding and influencing commercial risk exposures;
• Developing and implementing overarching hedging strategies for the Group’s power portfolio providing an optimum balance of commodity risk and reward;
• Understanding and considering implications on credit and liquidity risk within given frameworks;
• Overseeing and challenging the individual portfolio’s hedging strategies considering Group risk boundaries and financial objectives;
• Validating position, PnL and risk reports and accuracy of underlying mathematical models;
• 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;
• Building trust across the wider Uniper business by creating transparency of commercial risks and positions across the end-to-end power business;
• 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

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

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