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You will have the opportunity to enter the energy trading industry and take charge of operating our flexible assets portfolio. Your role will be crucial in maximising the value of our customers' flexibility while ensuring that all products and processes function seamlessly

Here’s what the job entails

In this role, your primary responsibilities will be to cover the operational shift as well as optimise and support our flexible asset portfolio, such as CHPs , batteries and renewables assets. You will act as the link between all our customers’ assets and the power market, continuously being in dialogue with asset operators and making optimisation decisions that create value for the owners.

Concretely, your responsibilities include:

• covering the 24/7 shift for the flexible assets portfolio. This includes monitoring external communication, system surveillance, asset performance, market opportunities and ad-hoc problem solving. The team covers three shifts on a rotation of 07:00-15:00, 15:00-22:00 and 22:00-07:00. The latter is covered via an on-call shift.
• covering the shift from 07:00-15:00 as part of the shift rotation and covering evening and on-call shifts when needed.
• assisting our team with market research to helping define product requirements for our flexibility services and solutions.
• planning and executing online webinars to provide market insights to our customers. 
• assisting the team on projects and carry out ad-hoc analyses

Meet your team

As our new optimisation specialist, you will join the Flexible Asset Management team in which we develop Danske Commodities’ flexible asset business. Our core task is to optimise Danske Commodities’ portfolio of flexible assets – finding the perfect balance between internal development opportunities and our customers’ expectations. The team is currently on a growth journey, with a growing number of customers, services and geographical presence. As such, we are looking for a new colleague to take part in managing the operations and trading of our flexibility portfolio.

We are a team of 10 specialists within asset optimisation and asset-backed trading. We are a dedicated and motivated team that always seeks to maximise value for both Danske Commodities and the asset owners.

But enough about us… over to you!

As you will be working with critical power grid systems and data that require great attention to detail, we are looking for someone who is well-structured, precise and ready to make a difference. Also, as the team covers a wide range of tasks and we always support each other in getting the job done, we imagine that you take a positive view – no job too big, no job too small.

We also imagine that you:

• have a relevant educational background, for example within Engineering, Finance, Economics or similar
• are motivated by delivering great customer service and products
• are fluent in Danish and English

We’ll take good care of you

At Danske Commodities, we take great care of our people. Joining us means you’ll get a lot of great perks – including social events, cultural experiences, tasty food and benefits to better your health, your life and your future.

Here are some of the benefits we offer our employees:

Fuel Fridays a monthly Friday off with pay, except for July and December, to fuel your energy

Vast development opportunities with the help of your own individual development plan, access to our DC University with 50+ courses as well as remote courses through Harvard Learning

Global career prospects as part of the Equinor group with +20,000 colleagues across the world

10% paid pension as well as a beneficial health care and insurance package

Great parental leave conditions including 26 weeks of paid maternity leave, 16 weeks of paid paternity/co-parent leave, paid pension while on leave and the opportunity to join ‘Inspired Beyond Babies’

Unlimited paid children’s sick days no limit on paid absence days in relation to child sickness

Extra days off five to be exact, every year – adding to the standard five weeks off each year

Senior days if you’re over 55 years old

Compensation for working night and weekend shifts

Bonus scheme

Share savings meaning you have the opportunity to participate in our parent company Equinor’s attractive share savings programme

Paid at home internet and equipment including a mobile phone with paid subscription and IT equipment for when working from home

100+ yearly social and professional events including DC Sports and DC Talks events, gatherings in our book club, bicycle club, student network, wine club, CS:GO team and more 

Various free tickets to family-friendly and cultural attractions

Discounts at hotels, restaurants, sports clubs and more

Organic food including a light breakfast, lunch buffet and snacks throughout the day

An office in the heart of Aarhus right next to the central train station

…. and much more