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About the Role
As Head of MetOcean, you'll lead a talented team of specialists whose work helps shape some of Europe's most ambitious offshore wind projects. Together, you'll turn complex weather, ocean and environmental data into insights that support better decisions, safer operations and stronger project outcomes. This is a highly visible leadership role where you'll combine people leadership, strategic thinking and technical oversight. You'll help create the conditions for your team to thrive while ensuring that MetOcean expertise continues to create value across the entire offshore wind project lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach and support a diverse team of MetOcean specialists, helping them grow and succeed.
- Create an inclusive, collaborative and high-performing team environment where people feel empowered to contribute and develop.
- Define the long-term vision and capability roadmap for the MetOcean function.
- Ensure the team has the right skills, tools and resources to meet both current and future business needs.
- Drive innovation and continuous improvement across forecasting, environmental modelling and analytical approaches.
- Establish and maintain high standards for quality, governance and delivery.
- Partner with stakeholders across Offshore Development and other business areas to support informed decision-making.
- Translate complex marine and weather-related information into practical insights and recommendations.
- Support project value creation through risk reduction, forecasting excellence and improved decision-making.
- Champion digitalisation, data-driven ways of working and emerging technologies, including AI-enabled solutions.
Requirements
- Experience leading, coaching and developing specialist or technical teams.
- The ability to create clarity, inspire collaboration and enable others to perform at their best.
- Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience influencing decisions and building alignment across functions and disciplines.
- Experience gained within offshore wind, marine industries, energy, environmental services, large-scale infrastructure projects or a similar complex environment.
- Experience managing programmes, budgets, consultants and strategic initiatives.
- A passion for continuous improvement, innovation and developing people.
Skills
- MetOcean studies and assessments
- Marine environmental analysis and forecasting
- Offshore construction support and workability analysis
- Risk management and uncertainty reduction
- Digitalisation, advanced analytics and data-driven decision-making
- Forecasting tools, modelling approaches or AI-enabled solutions
Location
- Amsterdam
- Kolding
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Leadership
- Strategic thinking
- Technical oversight
Benefits
- Good remuneration
- Challenging and international work environment
- Possibility to work with some of the best in the field
- Working in interdisciplinary teams
- Support from committed colleagues
- Attractive employment conditions
- Opportunities for personal and professional development
About the Company
- Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 21 000 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 are committed to enabling fossil freedom.
- Offshore wind is a vital part of that journey.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.