Job Description

You will join the Supply Chain Sustainability team in its work to secure Vattenfall’s position as a frontrunner in sustainability. To do this, you will primarily be supporting with the assessments of suppliers, as well as putting together recommendations and training material for colleagues throughout the organization about how to incorporate sustainability in our procurement processes

You will join a diverse team spread over multiple locations, all working on integrating sustainability within the procurement of goods & services and fuels sourcing at Vattenfall.

We are a competence center performing (enhanced) due diligence on behalf of other units in Vattenfall. In this process counterparties are scrutinized with regard to risk for money laundering, terrorism financing, lacking social responsibility etc. Next to that, we assure compliancy with regulations, which includes tasks such as trainings, controls and the drafting of internal instructions.

Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Conduct due diligence and enhanced due diligence by reviewing and approving counterparties, both for new and existing counterparties
• Review and approving counterparties towards other units e.g. Mergers & Acquisitions, BA Wind etc…
• Support with the roll-out of training materials to other units that need screening support
• Support with the documentation of screenings as well as gathering of various types of statistics on compliance activities (in relation to KPI’s)
• Perform benchmarks and desktop studies, support and participate in activities related to the Sustainable Supply Chain Roadmap and other activities with the Sustainability team aimed at further develop and integrate sustainability into Vattenfall’s processes and activities
• Perform code of conduct comparisons and evaluations, audit report reviews and provide recommendations

Qualifications

You are our ideal candidate if you have an academic degree in preferably legal studies, alternatively a degree in sustainable science/development, or human rights.

You are fluent in English. Skills in German, Dutch and/or Chinese are a merit. And of course, you identify yourself with our principles: active, open, positive and safe. Furthermore:

• You have at least 1-2 years experience in compliance and reviewing counterparties or suppliers
• You are excellent in using excel (for data gathering) and powerpoint (presentations)
• You possess the ability to extract, synthesize, and convey relevant, understandable insights from very complex topics including judgement calls of social aspects
• You are not afraid dealing with conflicting interest amongst stakeholders whilst remaining positive
• You enjoy working on details and like to add the finishing touch
• You have a natural desire to make positive impact on society
• You are flexible and not afraid to deal with unforeseeable challenges

Additional Information

Location: You can choose to be based in one of our office in Amsterdam, Berlin or Hamburg. We are looking for candidates already living and working close to one of these locations.

Our Offer

• We offer a challenging and international work environment and the possibility to work with some of the best in the field.
• You will be working in interdisciplinary teams and you can always count on support from committed colleagues
• A professional environment where your experience, knowledge and attitude will bring us one step further and the opportunity for you to grow further.
• A central office location with easy access by public transport.
• Furthermore, a healthy work-life balance (smart working) and time to develop your profession
• At Company you get the opportunity to work for a clean energy company that aims for creating fossil free energy within one generation.
• And last but not least; International and multi-cultural work environment with energetic, motivated colleagues that like to have fun as well!

More information

We welcome your application in English, including CV and cover letter via our website no later then June 23th 2023. Please don't wait with sending in your application, as we will be conducting interviews during the process.

For information about the position, please contact Recruiter Folmer Koper +31 6 38710915.

At Vattenfall, we are convinced that striving for diversity helps building a more profitable, efficient and attractive company. We continue to seek a harmonious balance of employees in terms of gender, age, ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

Our organization:

At Vattenfall you can free your superpowers! We are one of the European market leaders in the generation of renewable energy and are primarily active in Scandinavia, Germany, Denmark, UK and the Netherlands. We take our responsibility seriously and together we are making the change towards fossil freedom. Our goal is to enable a fossil-free living within one generation. We are a dynamic company with an international focus and a social face at the heart of society. Diversity and inclusion is in everything we do.

Read more about our work with diversity.

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 approximately 20,000 employees. We have been electrifying industries, powering homes and transforming life through innovation for more than 100 years. We now want to make fossil free living possible within one generation and we are driving the transition to a sustainable energy system.