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For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission.\nRight in the heart of Vattenfall, at Business Area (BA) Markets, you will find an inspiring international environment, with a culture of care and personal growth, enabling you to be who you are, having fun, building strong relationships and learning every day. Find out what our colleagues think about our culture: https://youtu.be/-9qGrDUCptA\nWe employ around 500 professionals who are active across Europe with offices in Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom to drive the energy transition together. Our role in Vattenfall is to maximize the value of the overall portfolio by optimizing and dispatching, hedging, and sourcing for Vattenfall's sales and generation volumes. We serve as Vattenfall’s single access to energy commodity markets and trade electricity, emissions, fuels, freight, and renewable certificates.\nWithin Markets the Business Unit (BU) Trading is the energy trading hub of the Vattenfall Group. BU Trading is responsible for all trading activities around Vattenfall´s asset and customer flows to maximize value creation and improve sourcing costs. It provides market access services for the Vattenfall Group which means managing all hedging flows, from generation assets or customers, by Market Access. Next to handling our flow business, BU Trading also has a proprietary mandate. Our working environment is based on a collaborative approach, as we strongly believe that through teamwork, we can develop the most successful trading strategies.\nThe Business Development team within the BU Trading works closely with the Head of BU Trading and the trading desk heads to advance the trading function. The Senior Business Development Manager takes a leading role in designing and implementing the BU's strategy, and drives both changes and commercial projects across all commodities.\n At Vattenfall, we don’t just “do energy”, we exist to help our customers power their lives in ever climate smarter ways and free from fossil fuel within one generation. If you are looking for interesting challenges and the opportunity to be part of this change, then join our diverse and talented team and make a difference.\nFor our office in Hamburg our Business Area (BA) Markets is looking for the right person to fill the position as\nLead Business Development Manager\nYour key responsibilities\nDrive BU Trading's strategic agenda and overall business development activities\nCommercial leadership on first new trading portfolio origination strategies\nAnalyse the constantly changing market environment to derive the implications for Trading's general strategy and identify related new business opportunities\nDevelop business cases and conduct analysis to open up new markets or businesses\nOwnership and development of commercial TSO relationship\nFacilitate the delivery of new growth initiatives and complex commercial projects in cooperation with the Trading Desks\nRealize significant PnL targets\nSteer and prioritise the project portfolio as well as coordinate all relevant stakeholders\nResponsible for overseeing broker and exchange agreements, ensuring alignment on terms, and supporting negotiations on fees and related contractual conditions\nCoordinate internal efficiency and change initiatives\nBe part of the BU Trading Management Team\nFunctional lead for 2 employees\nMonitor liquidity risk arising from the balance of physical and margined/financial positions, and take proactive measures in coordination with the Trading Desks and Origination\n Qualifications\nStrong academic background\nMore than 10 years of commercial experience in the energy sector\nGood understanding of trading, the energy market and the energy transition\nExperience in managing complex projects and aligning the interest of different stakeholders\nStrong commercial drive combined with excellent communication and presentation skills\nFluency in English, both written and spoken\nAbility to work independently\n Benefits\nYour development is a priority at Vattenfall BA Markets. Your professional journey will benefit from working in the exciting industry of energy trading, and in interdisciplinary teams. To support your career, we offer opportunities to grow through training, job rotations, talent programs and a working environment that stimulates learning.\nOur work culture at Vattenfall is excellent. We have an open corporate culture with flat hierarchies. Modern and flexible working conditions, including mobile work, promote wellbeing. In Germany, our work week consists of 37.5 hours with, in many cases, the possibility to work part-time. Up to 49% of your working time can be mobile work, and you are entitled to 30 days of vacation per year.\nYour health is important to us. We provide several health programs and support throughout potentially challenging life situations.\nYour colleagues will be another highlight. We employ inspiring people with diverse backgrounds. Together with our culture and your tasks, they form an interesting and fun place to work.\nYou can find our new state of the art office next to Elbbrücken.\nMore information\nWe welcome your application in English, no later than23rd of October 2026. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to process applications that are not made via our website.\nFor more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our Recruiter Jil Ungethüm via phone at +49 40 79022 1378.\nAt Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall 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.\nThe security of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. For that reason, a pre-employment screening will be part of your recruitment process. The screening is based on the role you will fulfill within Vattenfall. The screening will be performed by a third party, called DISA. 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