Job Description

Are you ready to shape the future of hedging solutions around the evolving needs of electricity in Nordic companies? Fortum’s Corporate Customers and Markets (CCM) business has ambitious growth plans and is looking for a strategic and commercially oriented leader who will put customers at the centre of portfolio decisions, turn their risk-management challenges into differentiated solutions, and build trusted partnerships that create sustainable value for both customers and Fortum.

About the role

As Head of Hedging Offerings, you will have end-to-end responsibility for the strategy, development, commercial performance, and lifecycle management of Fortum’s hedging offering portfolio. You will ensure that every hedging offerings are grounded in a clear understanding of customers’ needs and challenges, translating those insights into relevant, simple and flexible solutions for each customer.

You will lead a team of Product Managers and embed customer centricity in how priorities are set, solutions are co-created, and performance is measured. By collaborating with customers, Sales, Trading, Development, and other key stakeholders, you will turn insight into a competitive, scalable, and profitable portfolio that simplifies complex energy markets easier to navigate and strengthens long-term customer relationships.

Key tasks will include but not be limited to:

• Lead, coach, and develop the Hedging Offerings Product Management team, fostering accountability for customer outcomes, collaboration, and high performance.
• Define and execute a customer-led strategy, roadmap, and set of differentiated value propositions for Fortum’s hedging offering portfolio.
• Develop a structured understanding of customer segments, interaction paths, business goals, challenges and risk management needs through direct engagement, research, data, and feedback.
• Engage customers and customer-facing teams in the discovery, validation, co-development, and continuous improvement of offerings before scaling them across the market.
• Own portfolio performance and lifecycle management, balancing customer value, adoption, satisfaction, growth, profitability, competitiveness, and prioritization.
• Collaborate closely with Sales and Development to transform market capabilities into transparent, relevant, and easy-to-use solutions tailored to different customer needs and risk appetites.
• Act as Business Owner for relevant development initiatives, prioritizing investments based on validated customer problems, expected customer outcomes, and commercial potential.
• Build trusted internal and external partnerships and ensure a consistent, high-quality customer experience across the entire offering lifecycle.

About you

To succeed in this role, you combine strong leadership with commercial judgement, a sincere interest in customers and a solid understanding of energy markets. You are comfortable spending time with customers, challenging internal assumptions, and using evidence to make choices

We also expect you to bring:

• Proven leadership experience: A strong track record of leading and developing teams, setting direction, and translating strategy into execution.
• A strong customer orientation: Demonstrated ability to uncover customer needs, build segment-specific value propositions, co-create solutions, and use feedback and customer outcomes to guide priorities.
• Energy-market and hedging expertise: A solid understanding of Nordic power markets, electricity hedging, trading products, and the risk-management needs of corporate customers and electricity retailers.
• Product and portfolio management capability: Experience in developing customer-led strategies, journeys, value propositions, roadmaps, and scalable commercial offerings across their lifecycle.
• A commercial mindset: The ability to connect superior customer value and experience with market opportunities, risk, adoption, profitability, and sustainable growth.
• Change leadership: Confidence in making decisions, managing priorities, and leading teams and stakeholders through change while keeping customers’ needs visible.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills: The ability to listen, build trust, and align customers and stakeholders across Sales, Trading, Development, and other functions.
• Fluency in English: Strong written and spoken English; proficiency in Swedish and/or Finnish language is an advantage.

We offer you

At Fortum, we believe in a better future and want to be involved in shaping it. Our workplace is a safe place, both physically and mentally. You will grow with professional colleagues, being trusted and free to challenge yourself. We offer comprehensive benefits, flexible working hours, and hybrid work model to support your productivity, development and wellbeing. We are committed to build diverse teams where everyone feels included and is treated equally.

More information about our culture and benefits can be found here.

Espoo office is a smoke-free workplace.

For permanent employment with Fortum Sverige AB, you may be assigned a wartime posting within the organization. For further information regarding wartime posting, please refer to the Swedish Civil Defence and Resilience Agency.

Interested?

Submit your application latest on 11th of October. We will start contacting suitable candidates already during the application period. We will hold interviews on an ongoing basis. The position will be closed when we find the right candidate, please apply today! If you have questions and would like to hear more about the position, please contact VP Product Management, Mateo Manby, mateo.manby@fortum.com

Contact details to union representatives can be found on the bottom of this page.

As part of our recruitment process, we use assessment tests, digital reference checks and Microsoft Copilot to transcribe interviews. This helps us ensure a structured, fair and high-quality process for all candidates. To be selected for the position, the applicant must go through background clearance and a health examination including drug testing.

We are Fortum

Fortum is a Nordic energy company. We generate and deliver reliable energy to our customers and the Nordic energy system while at the same time helping industries decarbonise their processes and grow. Our core operations comprise efficient and best-in-class low-carbon power generation, customer services, and heating and cooling. Fortum’s power generation is already 99% from renewable or nuclear sources with one of the lowest specific CO2-emissions in Europe. We are guided by our ambitious SBTi-validated emission reduction targets on our way towards net-zero by 2040. For our ~4,500 employees, we commit to be a safe and inspiring workplace. Fortum's share is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki. fortum.com