Consultant

As a Grid Capacity & Releases Consultant, you bring structure and direction to the chain for grid capacity releases, enabling clients to gain clarity more quickly regarding available capacity on the electricity grid. You make complex releases predictable, executable, and explainable, thereby contributing directly to the energy transition. You oversee the entire release chain, coordinate processes between involved departments, and ensure that technical insights and operational execution align effectively.

• HBO or WO work and thinking level.
• Extensive experience in coordination, project management, or supply chain management within a complex organization.
• Experience with stakeholder management in an environment with conflicting interests.
• Ability to reduce complex information to clear choices and actions.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to quickly extract the core from complex issues.
• Ability to bring people along, organize progress, and maintain control under pressure.
• Switching quickly between content and coordination, and being able to collaborate effectively with specialists and managers.
• Clear communication, the courage to take a stand, and knowing when to take decisive action.
• Preferably experience within the energy sector or with a grid operator.

• Ensuring that customers receive faster clarity regarding when there is capacity on the electricity grid.
• Bringing direction, pace, and calm to a process with many dependencies and significant interests.
• Overseeing the entire release chain and drawing up the chain-wide plan for upcoming releases.
• Translating the plan into concrete actions for the involved teams and ensuring that work starts on time.
• Coordinating the entire release cycle and monitoring progress from preparation to completion.
• Identifying bottlenecks, initiating actions, and scaling up where necessary.
• Drafting clear reports on progress, risks, and results.
• Collaborating with Asset Management, Corporate Banking, Production, and Communications, among others, to properly prepare, execute, and complete releases.
• Monitoring decision-making in a dynamic environment and ensuring that decisions are made at the right time.

• Extensive welcome package and onboarding program.
• Secondary employment benefits including a personal budget (10%) and a 13th month (10,7%), plus 8% holiday allowance; you can use these components flexibly or convert them into extra leave days.
• 24,5 vacation days with a full-time contract; with a personal budget and 13th-month bonus, you can purchase up to 35,5 additional vacation days.
• Opportunities for hybrid working, including a home workspace set up by the organization and a home working allowance of €2,45 ​​net per day.
• Laptop or tablet and telephone that you can also use privately.
• Mobility map for first-class travel and travel allowance; bicycle plan available.
• Contribution of 70% to ABP Choice Pension (the organization pays two-thirds of the premium, you contribute one-third).
• Vitality budget of €700 gross per year, with the option to save this up to €2.100 for studies or student loan repayment.
• Room to grow through internal development platforms and external education and training.
• Weekly presence is expected in Groningen due to the focus of work and stakeholders.
• Working with equipment that generates electromagnetic fields; this can affect the operation of a pacemaker.

The electricity grid is under pressure due to limited available capacity; freed-up capacity must be made available to customers in a responsible and transparent manner. As part of this task, the role contributes to the energy transition by making releases faster and more predictable. The organization works in a multidisciplinary manner, where cross-departmental collaboration is a matter of course and differences in perspective are used to find better solutions. Collaboration with Asset Management and other teams ensures that technical insights and operational execution align well.