Decentralized Flexibility Operations Manager

📍Location: Brussels

About ENGIE and Supply & Energy Management:

ENGIE, a global leader in low-carbon energy and services, relies on its Global Business Unit Supply & Energy Management (GBU S&EM) to provide reliable, sustainable, and affordable energy to all its customers. This strategic unit optimizes the Group’s and clients’ production assets and designs tailored energy solutions for our 200,000 professional clients and 15 million consumers.

The Global Business Unit Supply & Energy Management leverages ENGIE’s assets to deliver secure and sustainable energy to its B2B and B2C customers. It uses its expertise in energy management to provide decarbonized electricity 24/7.

Joining Supply & Energy Management means becoming part of a team of over 10,000 passionate experts spread across 20 countries, all united by a shared mission: shaping a greener and more efficient energy future. Together, we push the boundaries of innovation to deliver decarbonized energy 24/7. Join us and be part of those shaping the energy of tomorrow!

Context

Unlock the Future of Renewable Energy as Decentralized Flexibility Operations Manager (Northwestern Europe)

Are you ready to be at the heart of the decentralized flexibility revolution in Northwestern Europe? We're seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Decentralized Flexibility Operations Manager to join our dynamic team in Brussels, Belgium. In this pivotal role, you'll ensure operational excellence across our contract-to-market chain, directly contributing to a sustainable future.

This isn't just about managing data and processes; it's about driving efficiency, ensuring accuracy, and supporting critical real-time trading decisions that power our flexible assets. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, possess a meticulous eye for detail, and are passionate about leveraging technology to optimize operations, this is the role for you!

Your Mission

As Decentralized Flexibility Operations Manager, you'll play a crucial role in:

• Navigating Complexity: Master the diverse landscape of Decentralized Flexibility contracts, ensuring their precise representation within our cutting-edge operating systems. Your ability to translate intricate contractual details into robust system configurations will be paramount.
• Guardian of Data Integrity: Own the data flows from end to end, meticulously ensuring their accuracy and reliability for seamless front-to-back and physical operations. You'll be the ultimate arbiter of data quality, safeguarding critical information.
• Operational Excellence: Thrive in a dynamic, real-time environment, supporting our stakeholders with unwavering operational excellence under tight deadlines. Your quick thinking and problem-solving skills will be essential. This may require on-call duty shifts to guarantee operational excellence in real time.
• Pioneering Automation: Drive our automation strategy, identifying opportunities to enhance operational efficiency and spearheading IT developments to adapt to evolving market demands and regulation evolutions. You'll be instrumental in shaping the future of our operational processes.

Your core responsibilities will include:

• Portfolio Mastery:
  • Design the portfolio organization into TSO entities to reduce the risks and fulfill regulatory constraints and declare the portfolio to the TSO and the DSO accordingly to the regulation
  • Manage the relationships with the TSO/DSO regarding portfolio evolutions
  • Meticulously manage a portfolio of decentralized flexibility contracts, ensuring their accurate initial setup in our tools and implementing robust transversal checks to guarantee data quality.
• Data Quality Champion:
  • Manage the decentralized flexibility data model
  • Make sure that the data required for real time operations and settlement are available
  • Apply data management best practices, serving as the guardian of data quality across all operational flows.
• Ensuring Data Extensiveness: Guarantee the comprehensiveness of data and pipelines, providing seamless support for all front-to-back operations.
• Asset qualification for ancillary services:
  • Manage the qualification process for aFRR with the asset owner and the TSO (performance report, tests)
  • Monitor asset performance and impact on qualification
• Manage asset certification on CRM (Capacity Remuneration Mechanism):
  • Certify the portfolio accordingly to local rules
  • Monitor portfolio performance and challenge TSO performance computations
• Process Improvement & Automation:
  • Actively contribute to continuous operational process improvements, championing automation initiatives and steering impactful IT projects.
  • Describe process failures when they occur and propose process evolution to avoid the issue in the future
• Process Design and Operations
  • In cooperation with Structuring and Trading teams, design the process and associated KPI and alarm that are required to operate the contract and support structuration process to make sure that the contracts can be operated.
  • Specify IS requirement in cooperation with product owner and tests the IT development to make sure that there are operational
  • Make sure that operations are running properly, monitor operational alarm and react accordingly with IT team support and asset owner. This may require on-call duty shifts to guarantee requested activation support.
• Stakeholder Collaboration and Local Operations Liaison:
  • Build strong relationships with site owners, gathering vital operational and technical information to integrate external data flows into our internal databases.
  • Manage the relationships with local installers/maintainers (contract management, performance monitoring, process design and review)
  • Organize test on customer premises to make sure that the asset can deliver what is expected
  • Effectively interact with local providers to ensure the continuous maintenance and optimization of existing technical flows.
• Regulatory Compliance: Manage and track registrations with administrative bodies, ensuring full compliance.
• Cross-Functional Communication: Collaborate closely with diverse internal stakeholders, including Finance, Origination, Trading, Dispatch, and others, to ensure their operational needs are seamlessly addressed.

What we are looking for

• Experience: Proven experience in a data-intensive operational role, ideally within the energy trading, renewables, or financial sectors.
• Team player: Team spirit and strong commitment to deliver in a demanding environment the operational excellence as a team
• Analytical Prowess: Exceptional analytical skills with a keen eye for detail and a commitment to data accuracy.
• Technical Aptitude: Familiarity with trading systems, data management principles, and an interest in automation technologies.
• Communication Skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of engaging effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Problem Solver: A proactive and resilient approach to problem-solving, thriving under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
• Coding skills: Existing proven experience in coding using Python language.
• Language Skills: Fluency in English and French is essential. Knowledge of German or Dutch is a significant plus.
• Education: A Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Engineering, Finance, Business Analytics, Computer Science).

Why join us?

Diversity & Inclusion

If you meet these requirements, then you are the talent we are looking for. Don’t wait – apply now with your CV.

At ENGIE S&EM, we are committed to fostering a gender-neutral and inclusive environment where everyone’s potential can thrive.

All our positions are open to people with disabilities. If you need any reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please inform your recruiter — we will be happy to support you.

About ENGIE

ENGIE is a global leader in low-carbon energy and services, committed to accelerating the transition towards a carbon-neutral world. Our purpose (“raison d’être”) is clear: act to reduce energy consumption and develop cleaner, more sustainable solutions that balance economic performance with a positive impact on people and the planet.

We rely on our core businesses — gas, power, renewable energy, and services — to deliver competitive, tailored solutions to our customers worldwide.

With 96,000 employees and a strong network of partners and stakeholders, ENGIE is more than a company: we are a community of Imaginative Builders, working every day to create harmonious, sustainable progress. 

ENGIE is committed to promoting Equal Opportunity employment. We pro-actively foster an inclusive environment that not only embraces but celebrates diversity. Our goal is for all employees to experience a real sense of belonging. We aim to provide them with a safe and inclusive working environment in which they feel empowered to thrive and excel. Join us and embark on the adventure of the century. Be a transition maker, accomplish more and change our world! It's our reality. At ENGIE, we don’t just talk about change, we make it happen!