Lead Analyst, Market Design and Development

Fortum is seeking a Lead Analyst, Market Design and Development to join our Strategic Market Intelligence team. This is a key role for enhancing our understanding and influence in energy regulation and market design.

If you are passionate about energy markets and have a strong background in regulatory analysis, we want to hear from you! 

About the role

As a Lead Analyst, you will drive the monitoring, analysis, and insight formation in energy regulation and market design. You will shape Fortum’s long-term perspective, facilitating and bringing together views from senior stakeholders, including top management. Your expertise will establish you as a thought leader and key senior expert, both internally and externally.
 

Your responsibilities will include:

• Lead analysis and insight formation on energy regulation and market design.

• Build and maintain expertise in energy regulation, monitor development through internal (e.g. Fortum Public Affairs, CCM, Senior mgt) and key external sources.

• Produce and communicate high-quality insights suitable for top-management and other key stakeholders, and regularly present to different audiences.

• Contribute to commercial and strategic decision-making, such as corporate customer discussions, business development, capital allocation, and business strategies.

• Drive and form Fortum’s view and position on key energy regulation, policy, and market design issues.

• Lead and review views represented in consultation responses to various questionnaires and lobbying messages.

• Position and defend Fortum’s interest in public energy policy debates and proactively seek opportunities to influence.

• Lead analysis work through proactive identification of analysis and thought leadership priorities, both on strategic and tactical levels.

• Plan, manage, and report on projects with complexity in terms of objectives, deliverables, scope, key contributors/dependencies, materials, time, and resources.

In this position, you act as a Fortum spokesperson, speaking with Fortum's voice, being a trusted and wanted external speaker. You will leverage the broader Market Intelligence analysis engine for support on key topics and actively participate in selected external forums with key policymakers.

The position is open in Solna, Sweden or Espoo, Finland.

About you

You demonstrate a service mindset, proactive and team-oriented way of working and have strong interpersonal and communication skills.

To succeed in this position, you will have :

• At least a Master’s degree in economics, engineering, finance, or equivalent.

• At least 10 years of experience in the field.

• Deep expertise in Nordic power market regulation and future development.

• Acumen for strategic, holistic, and commercial business mindset.

• Ability to develop high-class, “board-level” presentation material.

• Excellent written and oral presentation skills in English and Finnish and/or Swedish.

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.

Interested?
Submit your application in English via our recruitment tool latest on 26.03.2025.
We will start contacting suitable candidates already during the application period and will fill the role once the right individual is found.

If you have questions and would like to hear more about the position, please contact Mats Persson, Senior Vice President, Market Intelligence & Flexibility, at mats.persson@fortum.com or +46705537773.
 

To be selected for the position, the applicant must go through background clearance and a health examination including drug testing.  

We are Fortum

Corporate Customers and Markets business unit (CCM) is responsible for hedging and value creation in both physical and financial power markets and is managing Fortum’s power production portfolio as well as supply for Fortum’s Consumer Solutions business unit. CCM is also the customer interface for large industrial customers, pursues value through power demand creation in the Nordic market and is responsible for the Group’s strategy development. 

Fortum is a Nordic energy company. Our purpose is to power a world where people, businesses and nature thrive together. We are one of the cleanest energy producers in Europe and our actions are guided by our ambitious environmental targets. We generate and deliver clean energy reliably and help industries to decarbonise their processes and grow. Our core operations in the Nordics comprise of efficient, CO2-free power generation as well as reliable supply of electricity and district heat to private and business customers. For our ~5 000 employees, we commit to be a safe, and inspiring workplace. Fortum's share is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki. fortum.com