Company description

Vattenfall is one of Europe's largest producers and retailers of electricity and heat. Our main markets are Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and the UK. The Vattenfall Group has around 21,000 employees. We have been electrifying industries, powering homes and transforming lives through innovation for over a century.

About the role

Are you ready for your next challenge - maybe it's within Vattenfall?

If you, like us, want to make a difference by enabling fossil-free energy, then maybe this opening is for you? The mission of our team, is to create value to our customers, partly by offering the core solutions consisting of solar and energy storage solutions - i.e. clean, distributed and renewable energy - and partly services linked to these products. Another key area for our team is to connect and optimize the energy system where connected decentralized energy resources (DER) create value in the form of flexibility needed to stabilize the national grid, manage imbalances in energy trading, congestion of the electricity grid etc. i.e. great benefit to society. Our contribution to Vattenfall's purpose of enabling a fossil-free life.

As Product Area Manager within Customers & Solutions (C&S) Nordics, you will together with our team develop the DES business in Sweden and Finland. Special focus for you will be to be responsible for the product area Construction business i.e. for solar panels, inverters, batteries etc. included in the plants we sell. This includes the entire product life cycle from strategy and planning to execution, including go-to-market and launch, as well as post-analysis, to continuous development and maintenance and eventual decommissioning in the future.

About the role

In the role of Product Area manager you work together with the rest of the team and are the expert regarding your product area, i.e. for the currently existing products and those under development. The role aims to achieve the revenue and customer satisfaction targets within given budget and timeframes. Balancing business objectives, customer needs and technical considerations on the one hand and on the other ensuring that long term goals are met. The responsibility includes defining the product strategy and vision including go-to-market strategy within the product area which should be in line with DES other product portfolio and Business Unit Customer Nordic strategy and goals.

Collaboration with external partners as well as other parts of DES and Vattenfall is an important part of the daily work which includes people, processes and technology.

The role includes, among other things:

• Responsibility and management of the DES portfolio products through the product life cycle to ensure the ability to offer customers competitive, CSR and legally approved saleable and billable products at all times.
• Defining product strategy and vision including go-to-market strategy within the product area.
• Responsible for product profitability which includes calculating and setting floor price for newly developed products
• Create and maintain roadmap for development and launch of products and features within the product area
• Continuously collect market/regulatory/competitor input as well as customer feedback from various sources, and define requirements for new/improved products/features
• Manage prioritization in different forums within DES and product feedback log for the product area

Requirement specification

• Academic degree as Civil Engineer or equivalent
• Longer experience from similar position
• Good understanding of the opportunities in the rapidly emerging digital field as well as in the energy landscape
• Good understanding of the business logic in different business segments
• Fluent oral/written in Swedish and English. Finnish is a merit

As a person, we see that you have the following abilities:

• An ability to not only understand customer needs but also to translate them into relevant and high quality offers, services and solutions
• "Get things done" mentality; ability and courage to work on topics of both operational and strategic nature with an eye on the big picture
• Genuine team spirit; supporting and sparring with each other is crucial to success and is something you subscribe to and are happy to do
• Ability to drive change and work in large and complex organizations and to effectively manage internal and external interfaces and collaborations which sometimes requires flexibility, thinking outside the box and an ability to remain calm regardless of the situation.

Other qualifications

• Driven, businesslike and with a high degree of perseverance
• Analytical mindset
• Structured and independent and at the same time flexible and pragmatic

Further information

We offer

In addition to being involved in shaping the smart energy society of the future, we offer you a developing and varied work with many contact surfaces. For us at Vattenfall, it is important that work and private life have a good balance, so we offer flexibility in work and the opportunity to work from home if needed. We also have a lot of other employee benefits such as reduced working hours, favorable occupational pension agreements, parental leave allowance and more. Read more about our benefits here.

Place of employment

Solna

For questions about the recruitment process, please contact recruiter Julia Norberg, julia.norberg@vattenfall.com. Trade union representatives via Vattenfall's switchboard, 08 739 50 00 Rolf Olsson (Akademikerna), Simon Salomonsson (Unionen), Cecilia Bodin (Ledarna), Mikael Mukka (SEKO)

Please send your application no later than August 24, 2025. Please apply only with your CV, we do not accept Personal Letters. Selection and interviews will take place after the application deadline. We only accept applications via our website.

We are convinced that diversity contributes to building a more profitable and appealing company and strive to be good role models when it comes to diversity. Vattenfall works actively to ensure that all employees have the same opportunities and rights regardless of age, ethnic or cultural background, gender, religion/belief, sexual orientation or disability. Read more about how we work with diversity and inclusion here.

Because the safety of Vattenfall and its employees is paramount, we will carry out a pre-employment screening prior to each hire. These checks are based on your role that you will fill within Vattenfall.

We look forward to your application!