Head of Energy Trading 80 - 100%
Energie Wasser Bern
Bern
Key information
- Publication date:15 August 2025
- Workload:80 – 100%
- Place of work:Bern
Job summary
Bern is the most livable city in the world. Join our team!
Tasks
- Lead the energy trading team, overseeing operations and strategy.
- Ensure optimized management and risk-averse hedging strategies.
- Coordinate procurement of energy resources and certificates.
Skills
- University degree in engineering or business, with management training.
- Strong leadership and communication skills are essential.
- Analytical thinking with a focus on quality and engagement.
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Bern is the most livable city in the world. There is no two ways about it for us. Clean water, environmentally friendly electricity, and cozy warmth. Everything you need to feel good comes from us (okay, almost everything). And maybe soon from you as well.
Your tasks
- Strategically, financially, operationally, and personally lead the team with the functions of energy trading (front and back office), portfolio management, application management & data science
- Ensure economically optimized management and long-term, risk-averse hedging of the power plant portfolio through hedging strategies
- Ensure and be responsible for market-appropriate procurement of electricity, gas, and certificates for sales
- Ensure a well-functioning and future-oriented system landscape in energy trading and further professionalize data-based analyses and evaluations
- Be responsible for the development of projects in energy trading and bring them to success as a project sponsor by introducing new opportunities, prioritizing, and supporting implementation
- Actively promote collaboration and coordination with cross-departmental entities such as production, finance, product management, sales, IT, as well as external partners and suppliers, and optimize processes
This is what sets you apart
- University degree (engineering or business) and further training in general management / leadership
- Great competence in forward-looking and progressive leadership
- Good knowledge of the energy trading market and its influencing factors, energy portfolio management, and current IT developments
- Persuasive communication and interpersonal skills
- Structured, analytical, and entrepreneurial thinking as well as a responsible and reliable working style with a high quality standard
- High personal commitment and resilience
- Very good oral and written German and English skills
Contact
Martin Schaub, Deputy Head of Energy Economics, looks forward to your application. Thank you for using our online application. It’s easy, quick, and even without a personal login. If you have any questions beforehand, just call Martin at: 031 321 37 43.
About us
Our strategy can be summed up well: We supply Bern with energy and water – safely and sustainably. There is plenty to do. And we have a lot ahead of us. For that, we need you. People with the ambition to make a difference and the desire to go through the finish line together as a team. So that our Bern remains livable.
