Power Portfolio Trader Rotterdam • Eneco

As a Power Portfolio Trader, you will be responsible for actively trading Eneco’s power generation and consumption portfolio in the European energy markets. Your primary focus is to optimize asset value, hedge market exposures, and mitigate price risk through strategic trading decisions. You will play a critical role in ensuring commercial performance while maintaining compliance with regulatory and risk frameworks, leveraging deep market insight and fast decision-making in a dynamic and high-impact environment. 

Market Trading & Optimization 

• Actively trade power in the spot and forward markets to optimize portfolio PnL 
• Execute hedging strategies to mitigate market and volumetric risk of generation and consumption positions 
• Manage open positions in alignment with internal risk limits, market outlook, and asset flexibility 
• Take opportunistic asset backed positions where appropriate, within defined mandate

Market Monitoring & Analysis 

• Monitor real-time market conditions, grid situations, weather forecasts, and price signals to identify trading opportunities
• Interpret market fundamentals and price drivers (e.g., fuel prices, CO₂, renewables output, cross-border flows)
• Feed trading insights back into portfolio management team

Asset Baked Trading 

• Translate the embedded optionality of assets into commercial trading decisions
• Collaborate with the Portfolio Manager to optimize generation hedge path against market signals
• Manage flexibility contracts or virtual power plants as part of the portfolio
• Collaboration & Systems 
• Work closely with analysts, meteorologists, portfolio managers, and quants to enhance trading strategies 
• Support improvements to tools, models, and trading infrastructure (e.g., algorithms, ETRM systems) 
• Contribute to shaping a data-driven, fast-paced trading culture

You will work together as one team in Portfolio Trading but also have individual responsibilities to contribute to our goals. You will be creating an environment in where you exchange insights and opinions with colleagues.  

In addition, you bring the following with you: 

• University degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a quantitative discipline
• Minimum 2–5 years of trading experience in European power
• Knowledge of market mechanics, products (e.g., hourly products, blocks, system vs. zonal prices), and regulatory environment (REMIT, EMIR)
• Strong numerical and analytical skills; ability to interpret large data sets in a trading context
• High stress tolerance, decisive, and comfortable taking responsibility in time-critical situations
• Experience with Python, SQL, or trading support tools is a strong advantage
• A proactive, results-oriented and entrepreneurial personality
• A winner's mentality where you show resilience and perseverance to achieve successes
• Good communication skills
• Team player with eye for cooperation with the Portfolio Management team 
• You are already resident in the Netherlands or willing to relocate

As a Portfolio Power Trader, you will work within the Portfolio Trading Team for Eneco right next to Rotterdam-Alexander station. A complex, dynamic environment where ever-moving markets, ever-changing positions, new technologies, and the law of inhibiting head start create a challenging field of tension. 

The Trading Team is part of horizontal chain Trading and Origination (T&O). Value Chain (VC) T&O is the international trading division of Eneco. With a diverse team of colleagues who are motivated and highly educated employees, we work on an optimal market vision that supports Eneco's sustainability goals. VC T&O forms a dynamic and complex working environment that requires a lot of initiative and insight. We interact quickly with each other in an informal, transparent and collegial atmosphere.  

In a rapidly changing energy landscape, you and your team will shape the energy transition. A tough job, with challenging but achievable targets. We reward you for this with our good and modern terms of employment.