Junior Environmental Products Analyst | Trading Analyst

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Solna kommun; Hybrid; SEK 420,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Vattenfall is seeking a Junior Environmental Products Analyst in Stockholm to join the Trading Analysis department. The role involves analytical support for traders, development of trading insights, and model enhancement in a collaborative, international environment.

The position is hybrid, based in Solna/Stockholm, and requires strong quantitative skills, Python experience, and English fluency. The office offers opportunities for growth within a leading European energy company.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or higher in a quantitative field (e.g., business, economics, engineering, mathematics, physics).
• Strong analytical, programming, and numerical literacy.
• Fluency in English; Swedish/Norwegian advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Conduct fundamental and quantitative analysis to support traders and trading strategies for environmental products.
• Develop price views, regime shifts, and communicate insights to traders.
• Develop and maintain models and optimize tools for environmental products.
• Support business development and policy analysis for environmental products.

Skills

Analytical skills

Strong communication

Independent working

Proactive team player

Problem solving

Education

Master's degree or higher in quantitative field

Tools

Python

Job description

Junior Environmental Products Analyst | Trading Analyst

• Full-time
• Workplace type (LinkedIn): Hybrid
• Type of Employment (Career Site): Full-time only

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 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.

Right in the heart of Vattenfall, at Business Area (BA) Markets, you will find an inspiring international environment, with a culture of care and personal growth, enabling you to be who you are, having fun, building strong relationships and learning every day. Find out what our colleagues think about our culture: https://youtu.be/-9qGrDUCptA

We employ around 500 professionals who are active across Europe with offices in Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom to drive the energy transition together. Our role in Vattenfall is to maximize the value of the overall portfolio by optimizing and dispatching, hedging, and sourcing for Vattenfall's sales and generation volumes. We serve as Vattenfall’s single access to energy commodity markets and trade electricity, emissions, fuels, freight, and renewable certificates.

Within Markets theBusiness 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 market access services for the Vattenfall Group which means managing all hedging flows, from generation assets or customers, by Market Access. Next to handling our flow business, BU Trading also has a proprietary mandate.Our working environment is based on a collaborative approach, as we strongly believe that through teamwork, we can develop the most successful trading strategies.

Do you like to work in the dynamic environment of the trading floor? Do you want to contribute 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 Stockholm we are looking for a Junior Environmental Products Analyst | Trading Analyst (m/f) in the Trading Analysis department.

The Trading Analysis department within Business Unit 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.

Your main tasks and responsibilities as a Junior Environmental Products Analyst | Trading Analyst:

• Conduct commercially relevant fundamental and quantitative analysis to support traders and play an active role in developing trading strategies for different environmental products (including esp. Guarantees of Origin, CER, VER, CDR, and other offsets)
• Keep track of the latest market and policy developments, identify key fundamental drivers and regime shifts (e.g., supply and demand balance, consumer behaviours, policies), develop price views and sensitivity analyses, and provide related communication and advice to traders through various communication channels
• Further develop the fundamental and statistical markets modelling and interface with supporting functions on business-driven model development and policy analysis
• Run and further develop the position management and optimization tools for environmental products to support traders' decision making and to extract further value from the trading portfolio
• Support the trading business development and origination activities related to environmental products
• Play an active role in further developing and automating routines, procedures, and applications for analysis or portfolio positions related information and data
• Be part of the Trading Analysis department and contribute to its analysis output as well as the commercial success of BU Trading
• Educate traders in relevant environment products and policy topics.

Our ideal Junior Environmental Products Analyst | Trading Analyst has the following qualifications and capabilities:

• Strong academic background with a Master’s degree or higher in, e.g., business, economics, engineering, mathematics, physics or other relevant quantitative subject
• Knowledge and (first) experience in the market analysis of environmental products in a commercial or trading environment at market research companies, energy companies, banks, or hedge funds
• Experience with fundamental and quantitative models for environmental product markets and ability to steer business-driven model development and policy analysis in the supporting functions
• Additional experience with analysis of other energy commodities, e.g., EU ETS or UK ETS, advantageous
• Strong statistical, analytical, and programming skills (ideally Python)
• Fluency in English (both written and spoken); additional Swedish (or Norwegian alternatively) language skills clearly advantageous
• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate with various internal stakeholders and the willingness to share your knowledge
• Result oriented, independent working method with high reliability and readiness to take on responsibility
• Proactive team player with strong eagerness to learn.

Our Offer

This is an excellent opportunity for ambitious and talented individuals who want to progress their career within a challenging and international work environment, and the possibility to work with some of the best people 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.

Location
Solna, Sweden

For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our recruiter Jil Ungethüm:[phone].

The trade union representatives in Sweden can be reached via Vattenfall´s switchboard [phone]. Sven-Gunnar Gremlin, Akademikerna and Anders Bohlin, Unionen.

We welcome your application in English no later than October 15th, 2026.

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be a 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. Click here for further information.

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.

Since Vattenfall is a part of the Swedish critical infrastructure, many of our services are security classed. If this position is security classed the final candidates might be subjected to a security vetting process, according to the Swedish legislation.

We look forward to receiving your application!