Job description

Join a fast-growing company that matters to the future! At Fastned you can directly contribute to combating climate change by accelerating the transition to electric mobility. Together with 190 colleagues with over 35 nationalities we are building Europe's best fast charging network. Our goal is a European network of 1,000 fast charging stations in prime locations where electric drivers can charge their vehicles with energy from the sun and wind. We have recently been voted best charging network in the UK, in France and the Netherlands, which is a testimony to our drive to offer the best charging experience to EV drivers.

Your role

We are looking for an entrepreneurial person to kickstart our grid capacity and energy storage capabilities. You will be the person to manage and negotiate (flexible) contracted transport capacity with Distribution System Operators (DSOs), to initiate relationships with battery suppliers and pilot batteries with the aim to unlock sufficient grid capacity for our fast charging stations.

You have the technical knowledge and project management skills to lead the deployment of batteries at our charging stations and their integration with energy markets and our existing infrastructure. Your stakeholders are Fastned’s project managers that work on the physical realisation of grid connections, our Energy Sourcing team, and our Operations & Analytics team, who - after commissioning - are responsible for the exploitation, respectively operations of our batteries.

You do not scare away from first time ever projects and have the skills to define processes to scale up deliveries after commissioning of the pilot projects. Your role is key in order to continue to drive the electrification of transport through the integration of fast charging stations in today's congested electricity grids. Your impact will be important for Fastned to keep scaling and continue to deliver on its mission to provide freedom to electric drivers.

Your scope of responsibilities include:

Defining and implementing Fastned’s grid capacity and energy storage strategy, and building support for this with internal stakeholders.
Develop a business case for investments in batteries together with our Finance and Energy teams, while in parallel initiating the first pilot battery installations at our stations.
Create a framework to evaluate the battery pilot installations, and a plan for scaling up the rollout of batteries in line with the growth of Fastned.
Find opportunities to optimise the business case for batteries along with new opportunities that flexible contracted transport capacity agreements of DSOs can offer us.
Continue the rollout of the grid capacity and energy storage strategy to other countries. This could result in the creation of an international team to support this.

Job requirements

We are looking for an entrepreneurial and energetic person that likes to kick-start the realisation of batteries at our stations. You are an experienced project manager with a commercial savvy brain that is able to work together with stakeholders such as DNOs and suppliers of batteries and chargers to realise the first pilots and build a strategy to scale this solution thereafter.

The ideal candidate is a pragmatic person with a relevant engineering background that likes zero to one projects and has affinity with the renewable energy sector:

5+ years of relevant experience;
Experience in start-up, scale-up or other relevant non-corporate organisation environments;
You have outstanding project management skills and a proven track record in procurement and/or commercial negotiations;
You know how to build a proper business case and craft a strategy for your project, role and potential team;
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills;
Masters degree in a relevant field;
Fluent in Dutch and English. Fluency in German, Spanish, Italian and/or French is a plus;
You feel connected to Fastned's mission: to accelerate the transition to sustainable mobility by giving freedom to electric drivers.

Join us in building a better future!

At Fastned we are really excited about building a better future! Join us in a role with a true purpose and make use of our employees benefits:

We work hard to change the world, but we don't forget to celebrate our successes, big and small. In Amsterdam and in our other offices - Fastned knows how to bring people together!

Participation in the attractive company stock options program.
In order to feel & enjoy the EV life you get access to our fully electric vehicle fleet (all charging expenses covered).
Continuous development is important to us and our industry offers endless opportunities for knowledge enhancement, so each employee receives a €3,000 training and development budget per year.
We provide daily vegetarian lunches & the best coffee in all our offices, and cover your expenses on the road.
Next to fun events year-round, we throw notorious Christmas parties and organize an amazing yearly trip abroad with all European teams.
Other perks include flexible working hours, full travel compensation and the gear of your choice (MacBook vs Dell XPS, iPhone vs Android).

Interested in making an impact?

Fastned stands for equity and inclusion. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, gender identities, sexual orientations, religions, neurodiversity, disabilities, parental status or any other protected characteristic that makes you unique.

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