Resilience Area Lead

• Full-time
• Vattenfall
• Wind
• Business Development
• Copenhagen
• Professional
• Permanent

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Business Area (BA) Wind is responsible for Vattenfall’s Onshore and Offshore Wind as well as other non-hydro renewable activities. Today we develop, construct and operate wind generation in UK, Sweden, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands.

Can you influence resilience, enable preparedness and help shape the future of BA Wind?
As part of BA Wind , you will play a key role in one of the most exciting renewable pipelines in Europe, with 24GW of capacity stretching more than a decade ahead across our key markets.

We are looking for an experienced and inspiring Resilience Area Lead .

In this role, you will lead the continued development of resilience capabilities across Business Area Wind, helping ensure that our wind, solar and battery operations remain resilient and capable of delivering critical business outcomes during disruption.

You will serve as BA Wind's designated Business Continuity Officer (BCO) in relevant Vattenfall Group forums and act as the functional lead for resilience across the business.

Working across countries, functions and organizational levels, you will provide governance, oversight, challenge and expert guidance that enables the business to strengthen operational resilience, improve preparedness, recovery capability and organizational learning.

You will join the Security & Resilience Department within BA Wind — a second-line function providing governance, direction, oversight, challenge and expert support across:

• Information & Cyber Security
• Physical & Personnel Security
• Resilience

Your responsibilities:
Lead the Resilience Area

• Define and drive BA Wind's resilience strategy, roadmap and priorities aligned with Vattenfall Group objectives.
• Lead the development of resilience capabilities that strengthen operational resilience across BA Wind.
• Act as BA Wind's focal point for resilience-related matters and group-level engagement.
• Ensure resilience frameworks, governance and activities support business objectives, regulatory requirements and long-term resilience goals.

Business Continuity & Preparedness

• Own and continuously develop BA Wind's business continuity and resilience framework.
• Support the business in identifying critical processes, dependencies and recovery priorities.
• Assess the effectiveness of continuity capabilities, testing activities and improvement measures.
• Facilitate resilience assessments, exercises and reviews to identify gaps, vulnerabilities and opportunities for improvement.

Incident & Crisis Management

• Drive continual improvement of incident and crisis management capabilities.
• Lead resilience exercises and simulations to validate preparedness and organizational readiness.
• Identify recurring incident themes, systemic weaknesses and emerging resilience risks.
• Challenge and support the business in implementing sustainable corrective actions and lessons learned.

Risk, Governance & Assurance

• Provide oversight of security & resilience-related risks, capabilities and improvement activities across BA Wind.
• Monitor resilience maturity, emerging risks, trends and key indicators to identify areas requiring management attention.
• Provide independent insight, challenge and recommendations to leadership and governance forums.
• Monitor alignment with internal requirements, relevant regulations and resilience standards.

Stakeholder Engagement & Business Enablement

• Build trusted relationships across BA Wind and act as a trusted advisor on resilience and continuity matters.
• Facilitate collaboration, accountability and capability development that enables leaders and teams to strengthen operational resilience and manage disruptions effectively.

Location : Kolding or Copenhagen, Denmark – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Stockholm, Sweden – London, UK.

Qualifications

Your profile:

• University degree in resilience, risk management, security, emergency management, engineering, IT or a related field.
• Relevant experience in resilience, business continuity, operational resilience, crisis management, risk management, security or related disciplines.
• Experience working in complex, multi-stakeholder environments with strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Knowledge of resilience frameworks such as ISO 22301 or similar.
• Understanding of critical infrastructure, operational resilience or related regulatory environments.
• Experience facilitating workshops, exercises or improvement initiatives.
• Professional proficiency in English, both written and spoken.
• Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders, drive change and create alignment in complex organizational environments.

The following would be considered an advantage:

• Experience from the energy sector or other critical infrastructure industries.
• Experience in governance, assurance or second-line functions.
• Familiarity with the EU directives CER and NIS2 or national implementations of those.
• Relevant certifications such as CBCI, ISO 22301 Lead Auditor, CRISC or similar.

We Value Potential as Much as Experience.
We recognize that exceptional candidates do not always follow a traditional career path.

Relevant experience may come from resilience, security, risk management, operational leadership, engineering, emergency management, consulting, governance or other disciplines where you have successfully navigated complexity, influenced stakeholders and delivered results.

If this opportunity excites you, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every qualification listed above.

What Makes You Successful:
The most successful candidate will combine professional credibility with the ability to influence stakeholders, build commitment and strengthen resilience across the business.

You are:

• An effective influencer who creates commitment across diverse stakeholders.
• A strategic thinker who connects resilience activities to business outcomes.
• A strong communicator who translates complexity into practical action.
• Collaborative, pragmatic and focused on creating value.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving change.
• Curious, adaptable and motivated by continuous improvement.
• A trusted role model who demonstrates integrity and sound judgement.

Additional Information

Our offer
Good remuneration, a challenging and international work environment, and the possibility to work with some of the best in the field. You will be working in interdisciplinary teams and you can always count on support from committed colleagues. We offer attractive employment conditions and opportunities for personal and professional development.

More Information
Incoming applications are reviewed and evaluated on an ongoing basis. Therefore, this vacancy may be filled before the application deadline. The application deadline is July 22, 2026 .

We welcome your application in English and kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to process applications that are not made via our website.

For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our recruiter Sandra Domschke via email: Se e-mailadresse på jobbank.dk

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The security of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. For that reason, a pre-employment screening will be part of your recruitment process. The screening is based on the role you will fulfill within Vattenfall and will be performed by a third party, DISA Global Solutions AB.

Since Vattenfall is a part of the Swedish critical infrastructure, many of our services are security classed. If this position is security classified the final candidates might be subject to a security vetting process, according to Swedish legislation.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Company Description
Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 20 000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission.