Head of Industrial connectivity

ENGIE Global Energy Management & Sales (GEMS) provides energy supply solutions and risk management services to support its clients through their decarbonization journey, while optimizing ENGIE’s assets and contributing to value creation.

ENGIE is a global reference in low-carbon energy and services with a leading energy management business, piloted by its entity 'Global Energy Management & Sales' who built its savoir-faire managing the Group’s large and diverse asset portfolio over 20+ years.

3,600 employees around the world develop our solutions, through +20 international business platforms. We cover the full energy mix: renewable and thermal power, natural gas & LNG, biomass, environmental products. Our experts provide tailor-made solutions based on a wide range of savoir-faire in energy management with a strong focus on decarbonation and decentralization.

Our 190,000 clients span the entire value chain: producers, asset developers, financial players, utilities, distributors, and industrials. Our global reach and strong local presence enable us to offer these diverse clients tailor-made services and respond to rapid changes in mature or emerging markets alike.

At GEMS, we encourage breakthrough results, team spirit, curiosity, and innovation while preserving the right work/life balance for you.

Context:

Power IS covers the IS landscape for all Power short-term activities within GEMS, i.e., business activities handled from 1 week before delivery to physical delivery. This encompasses the generation of optimal production plans for the physical assets under GEMS responsibility, trading on short-term markets to sell the energy produced, physical steering of the assets, and communication with Power grid operators (TSOs) and regulators for nomination and transparency processes.

Power IS teams (~100p between Paris and Brussels) are responsible for the maintenance and evolution of the IS systems needed by business to support these activities.

The newly created team Industrial connectivity is aligned to BP Trading power and BP Spaas for their short-term activities and focuses on Industrial connectivity to physical assets, enabling real-time steering of Power production assets.

Role:

The position reports to the head of Power IS and will cover the following activities:

• Build and maintain the technical services steering ENGIE’s owned assets with the biggest power production capacity (Thermal plants, Hydro plants, Offshore wind parks) – SCADA technology.
• Build and maintain the technical services steering the Demand Supply Management (Kiwi technology).
• Steer the connectivity strategy, particularly when it comes to dealing with external partners for assets connectivity (Emsys, Krakenflex).
• Participate in the contracts establishment with these external partners in the IS area. Ensure that the service is correctly delivered by these external partners IS-wise (SLA, security, …).

The scope of these services is NWE as a primary focus (BE/FR/NL/GE), with the ambition to extend to Europe in the future (UK, IT, Spain) with local resources.

Main activities and responsibilities:

• Management of the team (10 to 20 people, permanents and contractors), in London and in Brussels.
• Define the role and responsibilities within the team.
• Identification of the key people build succession and backup plans.
• Coordination and management of the relationship with business teams.
• Build a strong trust relationship with business.
• Ensure the stability of the provided services in production. Take the necessary actions to fix structural issues.
• Budget Management and follow-up, in link with the Management Office.
• Small/medium project management: define suitable project organization, communication, functional and technical architecture proposal.
• Ensure that the applications are developed in the adapted technology.
• Coordinate with other Power IS teams to precise technical interfaces when it comes to steering.
• Ensure that development methodology is state-of-the-art.
• Liaise with GEMS IS transversal teams (Architecture, Digital accelerator, Infrastructure, Security) to align to GEMS IS standards, or participate in their evolution if need be.

The development approach is agile and is focused on the value brought to business, in short, medium, and long term.

Must have:

• IS team management.
• Previous experience of IS for industrial connectivity.
• Application lifecycle management.
• Technical and applicative architecture.
• Interest in power business.

Good to have:

• Knowledge in power markets.
• Understanding of grid balancing mechanisms.

Leadership and Soft Skills:

• Leadership.
• Business orientation.
• Communication.
• Ability to establish credibility, build consensus, and achieve goals through influence.
• Conceptual and practical thinking.
• Taking initiatives.
• Working together.
• Coaching attitude.
• Developing others.

Education and professional background:

• Master’s degree in engineering with a proven specialty in IT or equivalent.
• Previous experience (Over 5 years) in IS for industrial connectivity.
• Previous experience in the management of teams in charge of software development.
• Over 10 years’ experience.

Languages:

• French or Dutch.

Travels:

• The position is based in Brussels, with regular trips to Paris.
• Punctual trips to various locations in Europe (Italy, UK, Spain, …).

Our proposal for you:

• Passionate and diverse teams

ENGIE employees share a great professional pride and passion for their work. Moreover, we constantly question ourselves and our working methods. Within ENGIE, team spirit, diversity, and inclusion form the basis for inspiring contacts with colleagues all over the world. We rely on the power of the collective, across borders!

• Financial benefits: an attractive basic salary supplemented by bonuses and incentives, pension plan, share plan.

• Room for development and lifelong learning:

Engineering, safety, environment, project management, finance, data management, languages, ... at ENGIE you can broaden and deepen your knowledge across many disciplines. You can also work on your soft skills through the training courses 'dealing with stress', 'increasing your resilience', 'communicating with impact', etc...

• Career opportunities & promotion:

Every year, HR and line management discuss the career prospects, development ambitions, and growth potential of all employees. Each employee is also given the opportunity to discuss their career and development ambitions themselves. ENGIE also encourages internal mobility within the Group.

If you meet these requirements, then you are the talent we are looking for. Do not waste time!

Apply by attaching your updated CV, regardless of your gender.

ENGIE Global Energy Management & Sales is committed to creating a gender-neutral environment that unlocks the potential of everyone and provides equal employment opportunities for all individuals.

All our positions are open to people with disabilities; please let your recruiter know if you need reasonable accommodations to be able to participate in the recruitment process; they will be happy to assist you.

About ENGIE:

Our group is a global reference in low-carbon energy and services. Our purpose (“raison d’être”) is to act to accelerate the transition towards a carbon-neutral world, through reduced energy consumption and more environmentally-friendly solutions, reconciling economic performance with a positive impact on people and the planet. We rely on our key businesses (gas, power, renewable energy, services) to offer competitive solutions to our customers. With our 96,000 employees, our customers, partners, and stakeholders, we are a community of Imaginative Builders, committed every day to more harmonious progress.

Business Unit: GEMS

Division: GEMS - EC IS

Legal Entity: ENGIE GLOBAL MARKETS, BELGIAN BRANCH

Contract Type: Permanent

Job Type: Full-Time

Professional Experience: Skilled ( >3 experience <15 years)