This is an exciting opportunity to join an established energy company at a pivotal stage in the development of its trading activities. As a Power Trader, you will play a key role in building and shaping a dedicated long-term power trading capability. You will combine your market expertise with an entrepreneurial mindset, taking ownership of trading strategies, market opportunities, and risk management. This is not a role where you simply step into an established playbook; you will have the opportunity to help build the trading approach from the ground up, working closely with experienced colleagues across power trading, portfolio management, pricing, and commercial activities.

The Role

As Power Trader, you will operate at the heart of the long-term power trading activities. You will analyse market fundamentals, identify trading opportunities, and translate your market views into profitable positions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute power trading and hedging strategies.
• Analyse power market fundamentals, price developments, forward curves, and spreads to identify attractive trading opportunities.
• Take positions based on well-founded market views while maintaining a strong focus on risk-adjusted returns.
• Develop and implement hedging strategies to manage portfolio exposure and protect value.
• Analyse seasonal and regional spreads and identify opportunities to capture additional value.
• Explore cross-border trading and arbitrage opportunities, including opportunities between the Netherlands and Germany.
• Support the pricing of commercial transactions and ensure that pricing methodologies accurately reflect market conditions.
• Monitor positions, trading performance, and risk exposure.
• Develop frameworks that improve transparency around P&L, risk, and trading performance.
• Identify opportunities to optimise the optionality within the energy portfolio.
• Contribute to the development of trading tools, processes, and market access.
• Work closely with portfolio management, pricing, commercial, and other internal teams to turn market insights into actionable trading decisions.

Requirements

• Results-oriented and comfortable taking ownership of trading decisions.
• Confident operating in dynamic and rapidly changing power markets.
• Able to develop a clear trading strategy and translate it into concrete positions and actions.
• Comfortable balancing commercial opportunities with disciplined risk management.
• Analytical and able to combine quantitative analysis with fundamental market knowledge.
• Entrepreneurial and motivated by the opportunity to build and improve trading activities.
• Comfortable working independently while actively collaborating with colleagues across the organisation.
• Able to communicate complex market views, risks, and trading decisions clearly to stakeholders.

Experience

• Proven professional experience in power trading, ideally with a focus on long-term or forward markets.
• A strong understanding of European power markets, including forward curves, spreads, seasonality, and cross-border dynamics.
• Demonstrable experience creating value through trading and hedging activities.
• Strong experience working with positions, exposures, and hedging strategies.
• Experience operating within clearly defined risk management frameworks.
• A proven ability to make commercially sound trading decisions and substantiate performance.
• Experience developing, improving, or expanding trading activities, including strategies, processes, tools, or market access.
• A strong understanding of the Dutch and broader European electricity markets.

What We Offer

This role offers a combination that is difficult to find in a traditional trading position: you get the infrastructure, portfolio, and scale of an established energy company while having the freedom and responsibility to help build a new power trading capability. You will have a direct impact on trading strategy, processes, and financial results, while working alongside experienced professionals across the wider energy value chain. If you are an experienced Power Trader who enjoys taking ownership, identifying opportunities, and building something new, this is an opportunity to play a significant role in shaping the next phase of an evolving energy trading organisation.