Consultant Grid Capacity & Releases

You ensure that customers receive faster clarity regarding when capacity is available on the electricity grid. You bring direction, pace, and stability to a process with many dependencies and significant stakes, and make complex releases predictable, executable, and explainable. You oversee the release chain, align technical insights with operational execution, and collaborate closely with departments such as Asset Management, Corporate Banking, Production, and Communications.

• Higher professional or university level working and thinking skills.
• Extensive experience in coordination, project management, or supply chain management within a complex organisation.
• Experience with stakeholder management in an environment with conflicting interests.
• Strong analytical skills; ability to reduce complex information to clear choices and actions.
• Ability to maintain control, bring people along, and organize progress under pressure.
• Clear communication style, dares to take a stand, and knows when to take decisive action.
• Preferably experience within the energy sector or with a grid operator.

• Developing and managing the chain-wide planning of upcoming releases.
• Translating the plan into concrete actions for the involved teams and ensuring that work starts on time.
• Making dependencies visible and coordinating the entire release cycle from preparation to completion.
• Monitoring progress, identifying bottlenecks, assigning actions, and scaling up when necessary.
• Drafting clear reports on progress, risks, and results.
• Ensuring that the departments involved know what is needed, when it needs to be done, and what that requires of them.
• Making decisions at the right time and facilitating collaboration between stakeholders.

• Nationally structured position with a focus on Groningen; weekly presence there is expected.
• Hybrid working is possible, including a home workspace set up by the organisation and a home working allowance of €2,45 ​​net per day.
• Extensive welcome package and introductory program.
• Secondary employment conditions with an additional allowance on top of the salary (including holiday pay, a thirteenth month, and a personal budget).
• 24,5 vacation days for full-time employment, with the option to purchase additional leave days up to a maximum of 35,5 days per year via personal allowances.
• Contribution of 70% to the optional pension (organisation pays two-thirds of the premium, employee one-third).
• Vitality budget of €700 gross per year, with the option to save up to €2.100 for study costs or repayment of student debt.
• Room to grow through internal development platforms and external education and training.
• Laptop or tablet and phone for business use, mobility map for first-class travel, and travel expense reimbursement.
• Note: some equipment generates electromagnetic fields that can affect the operation of a pacemaker.

The power grid is full and pressure on available capacity is increasing. The organisation ensures that available grid capacity is made available to customers in a responsible and transparent manner. In doing so, the organisation makes a direct contribution to the energy transition. By aligning technical insights with operational execution, it helps make releases faster and more predictable.