Program Director Trade Transformation

Eneco; Rotterdam; On-site; EUR 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

At Eneco, we are accelerating the energy transition with our 'One Planet plan', aiming to be the first CO₂-neutral energy company by 2035. We're committed to helping everyone take the next sustainable step towards smarter, cleaner and more sustainable energy.

By joining Value Chain Trading & Structuring, you contribute directly to strengthening Eneco's trading capabilities in the North-West European energy markets.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics or related quantitative field.
• Expertise in finance, energy markets, commodity trading or banking.
• Strong general management capabilities and strategic judgment under uncertainty.
• Proven ability to transform complex, high-performing trading and analytical organizations.
• Ability to drive digitization and model-based decision making.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Trade transformation and governance improvements across the organization.
• Drive the implementation of the target operating model and performance management.
• Ensure risk transparency and robust control frameworks.
• Collaborate with Trade Management Team to scale and automate trading capabilities.

Skills

Finance & energy trading

Risk management

Strategic leadership

Digital transformation

Education

Master's degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics or related quantitative field

Job description

At Eneco, we're accelerating the energy transition with our 'One Planet plan', aiming to be the first CO₂-neutral energy company by 2035. We're committed to helping everyone take the next sustainable step towards smarter, cleaner and more sustainable energy. By joining Value Chain Trading & Structuring, you contribute directly to strengthening Eneco's trading capabilities in the North-West European energy markets. Governance, reporting and performance management play an increasingly important role in how we manage risk and capture trading opportunities.

As Program Director Trade Transformation, you strengthen the Trade domain's governance, overall reporting and performance management, while driving the implementation of the target operating model and preserving Trade's entrepreneurial culture. You build, together with the Trade Management Team, a high-performance organization that accelerates activity diversification and digital transformation. You translate growth commitments into a phased, multi-year roadmap, embed robust control frameworks and governance, and transition the Trade domain towards scalable, model/ML-driven and automated strategies and execution — balancing commercial agility with strong risk discipline.

You drive Trade's operating effectiveness and ensure disciplined governance, transparent reporting and scalable performance across the domain.

Operating Model & Governance

• Drive the implementation of a renewed Trade operating model;
• Define and embed governance, decision-making processes, RACIs and accountability structures;
• Monitor the effectiveness of the matrix organization and recommend improvements where needed.

Transformation & Advisory

• Act as independent advisor to the Trade MT on Trade transformation;
• Challenge existing processes and ways of working, and facilitate delivery of strategic transformation initiatives;
• Drive adoption of best practices in performance management and organizational effectiveness.

Performance, Reporting & Risk Transparency

• Strengthen performance around valuation, modelling, reporting and risk transparency;
• Ensure a robust control framework while maintaining commercial agility;
• Identify new reporting opportunities with FRM, Business and Business Control to enhance risk oversight and performance steering.

Models, Mandates & Frameworks

• Support the build-out of the Trading desk with advice on risk and governance structures;
• Challenge and provide solution directions on trade and portfolio models
• Secure, design, maintain and improve domain-wide risk-return frameworks, trading mandates and associated governance structures.

Organizational Leadership

• Establish and structurally upgrade domain-level operating models, decision frameworks and escalation processes;
• Strengthen execution reliability and risk discipline across multiple teams and sub-teams;
• Translate growth commitments into a phased, multi-year roadmap while embedding performance recovery.

• Master's degree (or PhD) in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics or a related quantitative field;
• Expertise in finance (preferably also in energy) in combination with commodity trading or banking, analytics and risk management.
• Strong general management capabilities and strategic judgement under uncertainty;
• Proven ability to transform complex, high-performing trading and analytical organizations;
• Ability to drive digitization, model-based decision making and structural performance improvement.

You lead the Trade transformation within Value Chain Trading & Structuring and report directly to the chairman of the Management Team of Trade. You work in close functional partnership with the Program Director Trade Growth and the Finance Director Trade, operating within the strategic objectives, risk appetite and governance framework set by MB and CRT for Trade

For more information about this position you can contact our Recruitment Lead, Jaap Beijerman, [phone].

Please note that both an assessment and a pre-employment screening are part of the recruitment process.

• Shape a scalable, model-driven and automated Trade organization while preserving entrepreneurial agility.
• Strengthen governance, risk transparency and performance management in a business critical to Eneco’s energy transition.
• Lead the transformation at the heart of Eneco’s energy trading portfolio.