Head of Strategic Asset Management

About the job

Electricity powers our lives. And we move electricity. Every day, we commit ourselves to the security of supply on the network side in Switzerland. On behalf of Switzerland and in cooperation with international partners, our employees ensure a powerful and reliable electricity grid.

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Ensuring electricity in Switzerland

Swissgrid is building the Strategic Grid 2040 and will invest around 5.5 billion Swiss francs in the coming years in the renewal and expansion of the Swiss transmission grid. This makes a central contribution to a secure, efficient and future-proof electricity system.

As Head of Strategic Asset Management, you take on a key role in implementing this generational project. From the client’s perspective, you are responsible for the strategic management of the grid construction project portfolio and ensure that the right projects are implemented at the right time with clear objectives.

You combine technical understanding, entrepreneurial thinking and strategic portfolio management. Together with your team, you develop projects from the initial feasibility study through to the approval of the necessary applications and commissions, up to systematic progress monitoring. At the same time, you actively shape the further development of the organisation and strategic asset management at Swissgrid. Your responsibilities include the following:

You lead the Strategic Grid Planning department with twelve internal and around seven external employees and further develop the team professionally and organisationally

You plan and manage the grid construction project portfolio in the Swiss high-voltage grid with an annual investment volume of 300-400 million Swiss francs

You are responsible for the implementation of grid construction projects from the client’s perspective. This includes feasibility studies, applications up to the board of directors level, phase commissions as well as systematic progress and target monitoring

You ensure an overarching, forward-looking and coordinated planning of the projects and create transparency regarding priorities, dependencies, risks, resources and investments

You drive the business development of the Business Unit and manage strategic transformation projects

You lead organisational developments and ensure that processes, roles and control instruments are aligned with Swissgrid’s future challenges

As a member of the management team, you actively shape the strategic further development of the Grid Strategy department

This is how you make a difference

You are a decisive and entrepreneurial leader who keeps an overview even in complex and long-term infrastructure projects. You can network technical, economic, regulatory and organisational contexts, set clear priorities and make sustainable decisions.

With your communication and leadership skills, you provide orientation, involve different stakeholders and win people over to common goals. You combine strategic foresight with a strong understanding of concrete implementation. You bring the following:

A completed degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, energy technology, physics or a comparable education, ideally supplemented by further training in business administration or corporate management

Several years of professional and leadership experience in the environment of complex infrastructure facilities, for example in the energy sector, oil and gas sector, petrochemicals, road construction or rail infrastructure

Solid experience in asset management, overarching planning and management of complex, multi-layered infrastructure projects and project portfolios

Strong ability to prepare complex contexts understandably, think in variants and prepare decision bases up to the management and board of directors level

Decisiveness, networked and entrepreneurial thinking as well as a strong sense of responsibility

Fluent German or French skills, good knowledge of the other language and advanced English skills

About us

We are the Strategic Grid Planning team and are building the Strategic Grid 2040. For this, we prepare feasibility studies and take on the client role for grid construction projects. We work closely with network planning, project execution and asset operation as internal customers, as well as with our partners and authorities. You can expect a committed team that fosters open exchange and moves things forward together. We share a clear mission: We create the network-side conditions for Switzerland’s long-term security of supply. Would you like to help shape the transmission grid of tomorrow with us? Then we look forward to hearing from you.