Project Manager

TenneT is growing fast to realize its strategic ambitions. We play a leading role in driving the energy transition. We are looking for a passionate Project Manager at our location Amsterdam who will contribute to this and that might be you?

Your contribution to TenneT

Equigy is a European Joint Venture company between six European TSOs (TenneT Netherlands, TenneT Germany, Transnet BW, APG, Swissgrid and Terna) deploying the Crowd Balancing Platform (CBP), to act as the gateway between TSO national markets for flexible power delivery (ancillary services markets) and aggregated Distributed Energy Resources (DER).

Until now, TSO national markets for flexible power delivery were in most cases accessible only to large B2B market players with large industrial power generation and power consumption assets such as power plants or industrial production lines. Since these balancing markets present an opportunity of billions across Europe annually, there’s a great potential value for aggregated DER to participate in these markets, thereby unlocking a huge volume of additional flexibility for TSOs and DSOs for balancing and congestion management. Equigy’s CBP realizes this ambition, amongst others by creating an easy and standardized market access for aggregators to encourage more participation of DER in today’s markets. Together we build innovative solutions to support the energy transition.

Your profile and background

With the growing number of projects and parallel run of operational processes the coordination of the workload gets more challenging and requires in some cases more IT project management attention to push forward the backlog items managed by the Product Owner. Together with your Product Owner colleague and the PMO office you will be responsible for the successful delivery and maintenance of products to improve the platform. Being ready for mission critical processes and have a trusted European platform is our challenge. For further improvements and business pilots we also are going to implement a R&D environment and support TSOs with future challenges.

• Proactively address and solve impediments that may hinder the team's progress and work towards their resolution.
• Lead the IT project team together with the Scrum Master and manage the project scope, schedule, quality and deliverables also being able to backup the PO role.
• Manage the IT project lifecycle from initiation to closure and oversee the project planning, execution, testing and deployment.
• Organise the steering committees and prepare the monthly reporting on progress and budget.
• Together with the Product owner you are responsible for managing the entire process from user stories definition until business stakeholder acceptance, and for aligning the relevant stakeholders from the different countries in an efficient DevOps process.
• You know what is on the product backlog and able support the timely delivery.
• Ensuring that the DevOps team understands items in the backlog.
• Defining and prioritizing user stories and features, based on business value, customer needs and market conditions and aligned with the current technical capabilities.
• Ensuring that the product aligns with the customer needs.
• Collaborate with the team and stakeholders to plan and prioritize releases. This involves balancing the delivery of new features with addressing technical debt and ensuring a stable and sustainable development pace.
• Identify and manage risks associated with the product development process.
• Monitor and control the project risks, issues, changes and dependencies and escalate them when necessary.
• Validate and verify the IT project outcomes and ensure they meet the CBP product requirements and specifications.
• Ensure adherence to the best practices, standards and regulations for the IT project management and the CBP product operation.
• Evaluate and report on the project performance, benefits and lessons learned.
• Coordinate the IT project activities and resources and ensure they are aligned with the project scope, budget and timeline.
• Facilitate the collaboration and communication among the internal and external parties involved in the project, such as the TSOs, the regulators, the vendors and the consultants.
• Ensure compliance with the relevant standards, policies and regulations for the IT project delivery and the CBP product operation.
• Review and approve the project deliverables and ensure they meet the quality and functional criteria.

Skills

• Degree in information technology or equivalent.
• Supplemented by certifications in: Agile, Scrum, SAFe.

• 5 years of relevant experience in software development.

• 5 years of relevant experience as Product Owner and/or IT Projectlead.

• Experienced in working within an agile / scrum environment.
• Thorough knowledge of the domains: energy, TSO and DER/flex could be an advantage.
• Decisive in terms of capable of making tough decisions about what to work on first, considering factors like value, dependencies, and risks.
• Adaptable to changes in requirements and priorities.
• Excellent communication skills, able to clearly express ideas and actively listen to stakeholders and facilitating discussions.
• Proficient in the English language both verbal and written.
• Able to visit the largely Dutch based DevOps team on a regular basis and additional travel if required.

Our recruiting process

Our offer

We are family friendly and flexible

• Health - your basis
• Modern working environment
• Attractive remuneration and social benefits
• Personal development

This will be our challenge

Strategy and Partnerships is set up because of TenneT's needs in new ways of working to realize our ambition to advance the energy transition. In doing so, innovative partnerships will be key to driving scalable solutions for flexibility, renewable energy integration and digitalisation.

Additional information

• As soon as possible
• The weekly working time is 32 till 40 hours
• NL: Type of contract is indefinite
• Job interviews for this position will be (partly) in English. Please send us your application document in English as well

Salary

4369 € - 8594 €

TenneT is a leading European grid operator. We are committed to providing a secure and reliable supply of electricity 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, while helping to drive the energy transition in our pursuit of a brighter energy future – more sustainable, reliable and affordable than ever before. In our role as the first cross-border Transmission System Operator (TSO) we design, build, maintain and operate over 25,000 kilometres of high-voltage electricity grid in the Netherlands and large parts of Germany, and facilitate the European energy market through our 17 interconnectors to neighbouring countries. We are one of the largest investors in national and international onshore and offshore electricity grids, with a turnover of EUR 9.2 billion and a total asset value of EUR 45 billion. Every day our 8,300 employees take ownership, show courage and make and maintain connections to ensure that the supply and demand of electricity is balanced for over 43 million people.

TenneT is an equal opportunity employer for ALL and is fully committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity to ensure that all applicants and employees are considered for recruitment, promotion and employment regardless of their ethnic origin, skin colour, religion or belief, gender, national origin, age, disability, sexual identity, marital/family status.