Senior Portfolio Manager

About US (GEMS):

ENGIE Global Energy Management & Sales (GEMS) provides energy supply solutions and risk management services to support its clients through their decarbonization journey, while optimizing ENGIE’s assets and contributing to value creation.

ENGIE is a global reference in low-carbon energy and services with a leading energy management business, piloted by its entity "Global Energy Management & Sales" who built its savoir-faire managing the Group’s large and diverse asset portfolio over 20+ years.

3,600 employees around the world develop our solutions, through +20 international business platforms. We cover the full energy mix: renewable and thermal power, natural gas & LNG, biomass, environmental products. Our experts provide tailor made solutions based on a wide range of savoir-faire in energy management with a strong focus on decarbonation and decentralization.

Our 190,000 clients span the entire value chain: producers, asset developers, financial players, utilities, distributors and industrials. Our global reach and strong local presence enable us to offer these diverse clients tailor-made services and respond to rapid changes in mature or emerging markets alike.

Our 4 areas of expertise :

• Asset management

• Energy transition services

• Energy supply & global commodities

• Risk management & market access

At GEMS we encourage breakthrough results, team spirit, curiosity and innovation while preserving the right work/life balance for you.

More info on GEMS Hub (https://gems.engie.com) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/engie-global-energy-management-solutions).

Context:

As one of GEMS’s front divisions, BP Downstream’s mission is to manage energy risks for Engie Energy Supply activities in CWE. More specifically, Energy Management for Sales Belgium team provides quality energy management services to B2C and B2B portfolios. The EMS BE team interacts with several internal teams such as: B2C BE, Supply B2B BE, Trading, IT, Finance.

Role:

As a senior portfolio manager in EMS BE,

• You actively assess and manage commodity risks linked to the dynamics of a sales portfolio, for all its commodities – Power, Natural gas, Certificates - meaning operate and optimize costing, forecasting, sourcing, and hedging strategies, within a defined mandate;

• You report the portfolio financials linked to the energy management results and performance to the commercial BU;
• You design and implement various strategies to reduce, internalize or externalize risks, towards and in collaboration with stakeholders; (Trading, other BUs);
• In close collaboration with the commercial entities, you structure and optimally cost standard and non-standard offers: by identifying potential risks and ensuring use of adequate and up to date costing models, risk bricks and data availability;
• You use and challenge data, models, processes & tools to answers supplier’s vision and ambition;  
• You take the business lead for the development of the tools, models, process, and portfolio/data representation of all commercial offer's portfolio;
• You manage contacts multiple stakeholders to which you present and explain energy management

Hard Skills

• Must have:
  • Knowledge on financial products
  • Understanding of trading and risk management business
  • Knowledge on energy systems and markets
  • Elevated level of numeracy and strong analytical, combined with a hands-on approach

• Good to have:
  • Proficient in Python and Excel VBA
  • Familiar with using APIs

Soft Skills

• Must have:
  • Willing to work in a front position with direct impact on Group’s and BU’s P&L
  • Team player
  • Highly resilient
  • Result-oriented practical thinker
  • Rigorous and accurate
  • Autonomous
  • Communication and presentation skills
  • Customer focus
  • Proactive and accountable
  • Ability to coach colleagues
  • Daring to step out of your comfort zone

Education and professional background:

• Engineering degree or business school, master
• 3 to 5 years' experience in similar field is required

Languages:

• English (+ French or Dutch, is a nice to have)

Travel : 

The job is based in Brussels, travels to Paris occasionally

If you meet these requirements, then you are the talent we are looking for. Do not waste time! 

Apply by attaching your updated CV, regardless your gender.

ENGIE Global Energy Management & Sales is committed to create a gender-neutral environment that unlocks the potential of everyone and provides equal employment opportunities for all individuals. 

All our positions are open to people with disabilities, please let your recruiter know if you need reasonable accommodations to be able to participate in the recruitment process, they will be happy to assist you. 

About ENGIE:

Our group is a global reference in low-carbon energy and services. Our purpose (“raison d’être”) is to act to accelerate the transition towards a carbon-neutral world, through reduced energy consumption and more environmentally-friendly solutions, reconciling economic performance with a positive impact on people and the planet. We rely on our key businesses (gas, power, renewable energy, services) to offer competitive solutions to our customers. With our 96,000 employees, our customers, partners and stakeholders, we are a community of Imaginative Builders, committed every day to more harmonious progress.