Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Energy trading operations and power markets professional with extensive experience in European wholesale power markets, specializing in short-term position management, scheduling, and operational process optimization. Currently Power Delivery Manager at Uniper, responsible for end-to-end short-term position management across 10+ European markets, ensuring robust scheduling processes, PnL integrity, risk transparency, and highly accurate trade capture, nominations, and reconciliation. Strong expertise in power trading operations with a particular focus on scheduling excellence, process automation, and operational scalability in 365-days market environments. Proven track record in designing and improving critical workflows across trade lifecycle management, nomination processes, balancing group compliance, and outage coordination, ensuring resilient and highly efficient operations under time-critical conditions. Experienced in driving digital transformation initiatives within energy trading environments, leveraging automation to reduce manual effort, improve data quality, and enhance end-to-end process reliability. Skilled in identifying operational bottlenecks and implementing structured, scalable solutions that increase speed, accuracy, and transparency across trading and scheduling processes.
Responsible for short-term position scheduling across more than ten European wholesale markets, ensuring PnL integrity and risk transparency through accurate nominations, trade capture, and position reconciliation. Oversees end-to-end 365-days operational processes and manages critical incidents during major IT outages to safeguard trading and delivery capability. Drives the development of IT architecture and system landscapes with a focus on automation, scalability, and process robustness. Additionally, establishes monitoring and control frameworks, delivers cross-functional solutions for complex sales structures, and supports a high-performance, Operational Excellence-driven team culture.
Responsible for monitoring, analysing, and further developing sales potential planning and forecasting concepts to support data-driven decision-making. Conducts regular and ad-hoc customer segmentation to enable efficient and targeted customer management. Leads and coordinates cross-functional working groups and task forces to mitigate reverse exposure risks and ensure sales capability, including year-end preparations to secure power balance group compliance. Additionally, develops and maintains cross-company Power BI reporting solutions to provide transparency and steer sales performance.
Responsible for reviewing power supply contracts to ensure legal and internal compliance and adherence to internal control system (ICS) requirements. Manages billing and settlement processes for power and gas supply contracts for an international key account, including both RLM and SLP metering points. Supports the design and implementation of an internal contract review tool, replacing Excel-based solutions with Microsoft PowerApps. Additionally contributes to the optimization of data flows and processes for Sales trading confirmations within a broader trading platform transformation project.
Infrastructure Advisory - Utilities & Regulation (Power & gas grid regulation) "Betriebswirtschaftliche und volkswirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Micro Grids" [1,0]
Infrastructure Advisory - Utilities & Regulation (Power & gas grid regulation)