Development Manager

Company description:

We are Fortum
Fortum is a Nordic energy company. Our purpose is to power a world where people, businesses and nature thrive together. We are one of the cleanest energy producers in Europe and our actions are guided by our ambitious environmental targets. We generate and deliver clean energy reliably and help industries to decarbonise their processes and grow. Our core operations in the Nordics comprise of efficient, CO2-free power generation as well as reliable supply of electricity and district heat to private and business customers. For our ~5 000 employees, we commit to be a safe, and inspiring workplace. Fortum's share is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki. fortum.com 

For contact with union representatives in Fortum, please contact:

Sami Russom, Unionen: [email protected] or +46768716608.

Henrik S Tedeby: [email protected] or +46722040354.

Job description:

Digital Customer Offering & Experience (DCO) is a business function within Fortum Consumer Solutions, where business and technology come together. At DCO, we create great digital experiences for our consumer and enterprise customers, innovate, and find new ways to expand our digital customer offering and digitalize our own processes. We collaborate closely with our internal stakeholders and external partners. We are strong in delivering the actual technology, data and internal tools behind the offering and processes. Through cross-functional collaboration, sustainability focus, as well as agile and lean working methods, we strive to make our customer’s increasingly digital lives easier with our services. We serve clients in the Nordics as well as Poland and Spain.  

Join us and get the opportunity to work with the future of our digital solutions and one of the largest energy retail companies in Europe! 

About the role

We are now looking for a Development Manager to join our Operational Excellence function. Operational Excellence supports Consumer Solutions with execution of cross functional projects and process improvement initiatives, with a customer centric approach and lean methodology. In your role as Development Manager, you will lead business initiatives in close cooperation with the business, functions and IT units.  

If you are passionate about innovation and ready to lead initiatives that shape the future of our Consumer Solutions business, then this might be the perfect role for you! 

Your main responsibilities include:  

• Preparing mandate, organization and business cases for the initiatives based on input from stakeholders.  
• Improving performance and reviewing processes by executing value stream analyses in cooperation with the business units and functions.  
• Interacting closely with business managers, specialists, developers and other project managers.  
• Presenting reports and results to stakeholders and project sponsors.  
• Develop and improve our development framework and tools.  

In this role you will report to Director Operational Excellence, Fortum Consumer Solutions. You can be located in one of our offices in Oslo, Stockholm or Espoo.  

About you

To succeed and thrive in this role, we see that you have:  

• A mindset of continuous improvement with an “outside the box” thinking when it comes to processes, technologies and the customer journey.  
• Excellent skills in data analysis skills, basing your decisions on data and facts rather than feeling or experience.  
• Strong presentation and visualization skills with the ability to create clarity in complex matters.  
• A dynamic and proactive working style, with a collaborative mindset.  
• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in business administration or project management.  
• Minimum 5-8 years of experience in business development, project and stakeholder management.  
• Proven track record of running successful projects or process improvement work.  
• Documented Experience of using various project methodologies (e.g, Lean, Six Sigma and Scrum). 
• Fluent skills in English.  

We offer you  

This role can be the start of your meaningful career journey at Fortum. We offer you a versatile and independent role in a growing and strategical digital transformation. You will be part of an engaged and dynamic team with strong business knowledge and positive mindset. Our working environment is hybrid and flexible as work-life balance is highly valued.  

In Fortum, we believe the best of our people and want to foster a company culture that encourages our people to develop. We actively encourage job rotation and development activities across the company with open leadership as our guiding principle!  

Interested?  

Submit your application by 12.8 at the latest. Please note that the recruitment is on hold during the summer. We will begin actively screening mid-August and hire as soon as the right candidate is found.

More information about the role can be given by Thore M. Sveen, Director Operational Excellence via phone +47 930 18 421 or through e-mail [email protected]. Time window to contact: 25.07 12-14 CET and 26.07 12-14 CET.

To be selected for the position, the applicant must go through background clearance and health examination including drug testing.

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