Energy markets are becoming more complex, more volatile and more data driven. Success increasingly depends on real time optimisation and the smart use of flexibility from renewables and battery storage flexibility to maximise value creation. Statkraft is expanding into short-term trading and BESS optimisation in Spain, supported by strong collaboration across Statkraft’s European market organisation.
As Head of Intraday Spain, you will be responsible for building, leading, and operating Statkraft’s Intraday trading and dispatch setup for Spain from our Madrid office. You will head a newly, to be established, 24/7 Intraday and dispatch team, ensuring value-maximising, safe and reliable execution of our Iberian power portfolio, while acting as a key interface between local operations and Statkraft’s continental Energy Management organisation. Thinking holistically, you actively seek standardization and harmonisation across all Intraday trading desks and its interfaces, such as day-ahead optimisation, algorithmic trading, flexibility trading and optimisation and daily market operations team.
This is a senior leadership role combining operational authority, people leadership, and strategic development in a fast‑growing and increasingly complex market. In this role you will drive our ambitious commercial and operational targets forward. You will represent Continental Energy Management towards major stakeholders, such as Origination and Market Risk internally, as well as externally towards transmission system operators or regulators. You will help build the flexibility business , being of a high performing, international environment where technology, analytics and commercial judgement come together to unlock value from renewable and flexible portfolios.
For professionals who want responsibility, growth and proactively shape and drive the business forward in the energy transition, Statkraft in Madrid is a compelling next step. In this role you will have following responsibilities:
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Build, lead, and develop a 24/7 Intraday and dispatch team (control centre) based in Madrid.
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Hold end‑to‑end responsibility for Intraday trading and dispatch operations in Spain, including shift organisation and operational decision‑making
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Ensure stable, compliant, and high‑quality execution in Iberian power markets, especially a timely follow up on results, incidents and wellbeing of our staff.
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Closely cooperate with other units in the Statkraft Group, especially with our Origination and Portfolio Management team for Southern Europe
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Drive the improvement of systems, procedures and market understanding within our creative and innovative environment.
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Oversee the day-to-day operations, balance commercial focus with operational excellence. Take commercial ownership, while keeping control of the operational and compliance risks.
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Develop trading strategies for different technologies for the short term to intraday periods and take commercial ownership for the team performance.
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Drive continuous improvement of Intraday trading strategies, dispatch quality, and operational workflows.