Leitung Asset Management Offshore & HVDC (m/w/d)

Leitung Asset Management Offshore & HVDC (m/w/d)

TenneT is growing fast to realize its strategic ambitions. We play a leading role in driving the energy transition. We are looking for a passionate Head Asset Management Offshore & HVDC (m/w/d) at our locations Bayreuth or Lehrte who will contribute to this and that might be you?

Your profile and background

• Qualification: This position requires a relevant university degree in Business Administration, Electrical, Mechanical, or Industrial Engineering, or an equivalent qualification
• Professional Experience: Comprehensive background in the Energy and Technology sectors (Oil or Gas Sector), dealing with complex business cases and managing teams across different locations
• Leadership Competence: Proven track record in leading organizations, developing and coaching future leaders, and actively driving diversity within teams
• Inspiration: Act as a motivating leader by aligning and mobilizing all community members around Vision, Mission & Ambitions, while fostering a high-performance culture based on strong team cohesion, solution orientation, and output-driven working methods
• Effective Management: Apply management functions and systems (organizing, planning, controlling, staffing, directing) to ensure sustainable business performance and continuous development
• Active Engagement: Build, develop, and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders at Senior Management level; influence perspectives and decisions by understanding stakeholder interests and processes, and create win-win solutions accordingly

Your contribution to TenneT

• Leadership: Leading the Asset Management Offshore & HVDC department with around 40 members (7 direct reports), focusing on business alignment, team mobilization, and people development
• Lifecycle Management: Managing TenneT’s Offshore & HVDC Asset Portfolio (DC Transmission Grid) across the full lifecycle – from acquisition to disposal – with strong emphasis on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Defining system standards and optimizing cost, quality, risk, and sustainability
• Policy & Strategy: Developing and implementing the Asset Management Policy and Strategy to ensure alignment with organizational goals
• Strategic Planning: Creating Strategic Asset Management Plans in close collaboration with other TenneT Units
• Performance Management: Setting asset performance targets and standards, monitoring and analyzing asset performance, and implementing measures to optimize asset outcomes

Our offer

We are family friendly and flexible

Flexible working hours without fixed times and home office options allow you to organize your work individually. Our external partners also provide you with support services for various phases of life - for example, in matters relating to household services or care and career.

Attractive remuneration and social benefits

We offer great benefits such as a salary based on our Collective Labor Agreement, an annual bonus and excellent pension scheme.

Health - your basis

Because we think it is important that you are healthy and feel good, we offer all kinds of great extras: we provide various opportunities to work out via our Always Energy program which offers a wide range of opportunities to indulge in sports (organised training for different sports, competitions and events). And you will receive a sports allowance if you are a member of a sports club.

Modern working environment

• Modern IT-tools
• Ergonomic workstations
• Very well equipped conference rooms and communication solutions that enable cross-location and cross-border collaboration

This will be our challenge

Our unit Asset Management & Technology takes a decisive role within TenneT’s business governance, operationalizing and implementing TenneT’s business strategy. In this context, the department Asset Lifecycle Management Offshore & HVDC defines Offshore & HVDC Transmission Grid standards and develops and implements Strategic Asset Management Plans, based on technical risk management, O&M strategies, asset performance monitoring and technology innovations.

Additional information

• As of January 1st
• The position is unlimited
• The position requires a regular willingness to travel, depending on the respective requirements

The position may gets unpublished earlier, so don't hesitate to apply!

IDE, AI and more about TenneT

As a signatory to the Diversity Charter Germany, we at TenneT are convinced that we can only drive the energy transition forward innovatively with different perspectives and experiences. Therefore, we welcome all applicants - regardless of gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, ethnic background, disability or age. TenneT aims to increase the proportion of women in positions where they are underrepresented. For this reason, we expressly encourage qualified women to apply. We also welcome applications from people without German citizenship.

We welcome applications from people with disabilities. If you indicate your (severe) disability in your application, we will forward your application to our representative for disabled persons so that they can support your application in accordance with paragraph 178 SGB IX.

Since we use AI as part of our recruiting process, we would like to create transparency and clarity at this point. The AI serves exclusively as a supporting and recommending tool to make our processes even faster and more efficient. At no time are automated decisions made.

TenneT is a leading European grid operator. We are committed to providing a secure and reliable supply of electricity 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, while helping to drive the energy transition in our pursuit of a brighter energy future – more sustainable, reliable and affordable than ever before. In our role as the first cross-border Transmission System Operator (TSO) we design, build, maintain and operate over 25,000 kilometres of high-voltage electricity grid in the Netherlands and large parts of Germany, and facilitate the European energy market through our 17 interconnectors to neighbouring countries. We are one of the largest investors in national and international onshore and offshore electricity grids, with a turnover of EUR 9.2 billion and a total asset value of EUR 45 billion. Every day our 8,300 employees take ownership, show courage and make and maintain connections to ensure that the supply and demand of electricity is balanced for over 43 million people.

Lighting the way ahead together