(Senior) Trading Meteorologist

Company Description

Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 20 000 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 now want to make fossil-free living possible within one generation. To be able to reach this ambitious goal 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. 

Business Area (BA) Markets maximises the value of Vattenfall’s portfolio by optimising and dis-patching, hedging, and sourcing for Vattenfall's assets and sales positions. We offer power purchase agree¬ments to operators of wind or solar parks, optimise 3rd party batteries, and enter into origination deals within the B2B segment. We serve as Vattenfall’s single market access to energy commodity markets trading in electricity, emissions, fuels, freight, and renewable certificates. We are responsible for generating profits by taking positions within defined risk mandates and limits. We are active across Europe with around 450 professionals working from Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands, and The UK.

Within Markets the Business Unit (BU) Trading is the energy trading hub of the Vattenfall Group. BU Trading is responsible for all trading activities around Vattenfall´s asset and customer flows to maximize value creation and improve sourcing costs. It provides all market access services for standard OTC and exchange-based energy commodities for the Vattenfall Group, which means managing all hedge flows, from generation assets or customers, by our market access function. Next to handling our flow business, BU Trading also has a proprietary mandate.

Job Description

Do you like to work in the dynamic environment of the trading floor? Are you already contributing to high quality analysis and the success of the trading function using your analytical capabilities and commercial comprehension? Then this job could be something for you. 

For our office in Hamburg we are now looking for an engaged and ambitious

(Senior) Trading Meteorologist

in the Trading Analysis & Algorithms department.

The Trading Analysis & Algorithms department within the Business Unit (BU) Trading works closely with the trading desks and takes the leading role in providing market insights, (fundamental and quantitative) analysis, and ultimately commercial decision support across all commodity areas. As part of the department, the Algorithmic Trading desk works closely with the other trading desks and the Algo Infrastructure team and takes the leading role in algorithmic trading and automated trade execution across BU Trading from the intraday to term horizon.

Your main tasks and responsibilities as a (Senior) Trading Meteorologist:

• Keep track of the latest weather forecasts and their impact on the power and gas markets, in both short and long-term perspectives, covering foremost Europe but also the US and Asia
• Communicate current weather developments and provide related advise to traders and portfolio managers through various communication channels
• Play an active role in developing (systematic and discretionary) weather-driven trading strategies in the short to mid-term term horizon
• Further develop the quantitative weather models and tools, and conduct commercially relevant quantitative analyses
• Play an active role in further developing and automating routines, procedures, and applications for weather-related information and data
• Keep track of the latest, commercially relevant weather research and provide related advise
• Be part of the Trading Analysis & Algorithms department and contribute to its analysis output as well as the commercial success of BU Trading
• Educate traders in relevant weather-related topics

Qualifications

Our ideal (Senior) Trading Meteorologist has the following qualifications and capabilities:

• Strong academic background with a Master’s degree or higher in meteorology, or physics/ mathematics with a dominant part in meteorological applications
• 3+ years’ experience from operational weather forecasting in in a commercial or trading environment at energy companies, banks, or hedge funds with a proven track record
• Good hydrological and/or wind understanding
• Good mathematical, statistical, and analytical skills
• Good programming (esp. Python) and data analysis/mining skills
• Knowledge of machine learning techniques advantageous but not required
• Fluency in English (both written and spoken), German language skills advantageous but not required
• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate with various internal stakeholders and the willingness to share your knowledge
• Result-orientated, independent working method with high reliability and readiness to take on responsibility
• Willingness to start working early in the morning

Location
Hamburg

Additional Information

Our offer 
Good remuneration, 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. We offer attractive employment conditions and opportunities for personal and professional development. 

More Information 
We welcome your application in English, no later than 31st of October 2024. 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 Carina Böhle via phone: +49 40 79022 1623. 

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, Validata. 
 
We look forward to receiving your application!