Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 21.000 employees. 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.  

Right 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

We 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.  

Within Markets BU Customers is offering power purchase agreements to operators of wind or solar parks. We provide market access services to large customers and (regional) energy suppliers and connect demand-side flexibility of industry to stabilize the electricity grid. We furthermore source electricity for Vattenfall’s consumer- and business customers with a strong focus to increase renewable sources of electricity.

As our (Senior) Commodity Originator, Nordics, you are expected to identify, develop, negotiate and implement new business opportunities as well as maintaining regular semi-standard business in order to develop our trading business and mitigate our risks. The focus is on structured energy commodity transactions and non-standard contracts covering power, gas, green certificates, CO2, biomass and flexibility products, where Commodity Origination acts as the single interface to the market. You will work in close cooperation with our trading unit, as well as other important stakeholders. Deal closing includes all internal approvals by relevant committees and contract negotiation. We expect that you have experience within one or several of the commodity areas we aim to strengthen. 

You have the following tasks and responsibilities:

• Identify structured / non-standard trading & customer-based opportunities
• Grow and innovate Vattenfall’s Origination business and drive PnL generation
• Identify potential new clients and follow-up on current leads
• Manage and drive onboarding process for new counterparties until deal closing
• Facilitate decision making processes, potentially involving executive group management
• Internal coordination with Legal, Trade Control, Reg Ops, Market and Credit Risk, Finance

Location  
Solna (Sweden)

Your Profile

• High degree of commercial focus, strong business acumen and PnL responsibility
• Ability to structure power, gas, cross-commodity, complex energy transactions
• Ability to drive transactions from idea to closure through all approvals
• Experience in physical and financial energy markets
• Strong network in the energy market, esp. across Northern Europe
• Strong self-motivation to achieve PnL in a challenging and rapidly evolving environment
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• High assertiveness and solution-focused thinking
• Fluent in English and at least in one of the core Nordic languages: Swedish, Norwegian or Finnish

More information 
We welcome your application in English, no later than 2nd of June 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. 

For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our Recruiter Maryana Halushko via mail [email protected]. 

At 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.

The 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. In addition, a certificate of good conduct (i.e. criminal record certificate) is required for certain positions.

The trade union representatives in Sweden can be reached via Vattenfall´s switchboard +46 8 739 50 00. Sven-Gunnar Gremlin, Akademikerna and Anders Bohlin, Unionen.

Since Vattenfall is a part of the Swedish critical infrastructure, many of our services are security classed. If this position is security classed the final candidates might be subjected to a security vetting process, according to the Swedish legislation. 

We look forward to receiving your application!