Data Scientist Pricing & Forecasting

Company Description

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 now want to make fossil-free living possible within one generation. To be able to reach this ambitious goal 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. 

Job Description

Do you want to commit to a critical challenge and help to shape our future?We are now looking for a talent to join us in the position of Data Scientist Forecasting and Pricing!

The energy market place is in an exciting transition, moving away from fossil fuels towards decentral solutions, renewables and energy efficiency. Important drivers are changes in customer expectations and behaviour and rapid technological developments. Our ambition is to take the lead in this transition.

Vattenfall Business NL creates (new) sustainable solutions for business customers with partners inside and outside Vattenfall. The associated responsibility for the result and risk management are an integral part of this. Digital innovation is increasingly playing a role.

The transition strongly increases opportunities and the complexity of the Forecasting and Pricing function. Growth towards world class execution will be a key lever for Vattenfall Business NL’s future commercial performance. It requires an analytical approach, in depth knowledge, advanced modelling and effective processes. We take  an integrated approach, translating the volatility of the wholesale market and risks into attractive customer propositions, whilst managing related values and risks. Teammembers within Customer Portfolio Management are responsible for modelling and executing demand forecasting, pricing and managing the supply risks of Vattenfall’s Business customer portfolio in The Netherlands.

We are looking for a talent to join the team of data scientists and to take an important role in this critical challenge.

Your tasks and responsibilities: 

• Perform analysis on customer data sets to extract meaningful insights, which will help us make strategic long term decisions
• Develop customer demand forecasting and pricing (Machine Learning) models based on customer behaviour in Python
• Maintain, calibrate and execute daily forecasting and pricing tools for Vattenfall’s Business NL portfolio
• Initiate and support initiatives to increase the level of automation, flexibility and intelligence in required processes
• Build up thorough knowledge of (developments in) the wholesale energy markets, in value and risk models, and in changes to the customer behaviour in energy demand
• Develop scenarios to balance the value and risks of our customers with those of Vattenfall and find new value propositions for customers, based on sourcing – risk – pricing opportunities

You will report to the Manager Customer Portfolio Management.

Location  
Amsterdam

Qualifications

Your profile / who are you? 

We expect you to have a combination of strong analytical skills, a commercial ambition and drive to run and improve a critical part of our core business. You have an ability to think and act on strategic and process level in order to challenge and improve current business operations. You are highly motivated to create the best value for our customers.  

Among the above personal competence, you bring:

• Masters degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Science, Econometrics, Financial Economics, Engineering or related field.
• Strong programming skills in Python
• Experience in performing advanced data analytics on large datasets with the use of tools such as Pandas, Spark and SQL
• You acquired in-depth knowledge of statistics, and analytical and modelling techniques.
• Ideally, you have some experience in developing forecasting models and you know your way around timeseries.

If you already have experience in fields of Forecasting, Sourcing and/or Pricing within a retail, sales business or consultancy in a competitive environment, you are our ideal candidate !

Solid English language skills are required for this position, Dutch is strongly preferred.

Additional Information

Our offer 
Good remuneration, a challenging and international work environment, and the possibility to work with some of the best 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. 

More Information 
We welcome your application in English, no later than the 9th of April. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to process applications that are not made via our website. 
 
For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our recruiter Stijn van der Kleij  via stijn.vanderkleij@vattenfall.com

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. 

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. The screening will be performed by a third party, Validata.
 
We look forward to receiving your application!