Product Owner Grid Congestion

Project overview

For our end client Enexis, Harvey Nash is looking for a Product Owner Grid Congestion.

Please note! Please send your response via the website, including the following information:

Availability in hours per week

Has the candidate worked for Enexis before?

Holiday plans within the next 3 months

Expected start date: ASAP

Duration of the assignment: 12 months

Option for extension: yes

Number of hours per week: 32 to 40

Location of work: Den Bosch

On-site or from home: 50/50

ZZP possible: no

Deta-Vast: no

Deadline for proposing candidates: 02/11-12:00

Job scale: 16

Target rate (all-in, including travel and parking costs and any overnight costs, excluding VAT): 103.67 max rate

As Product Owner Grid Congestion, you are responsible for realizing complex changes within one of Enexis's most strategic tasks: managing grid congestion and optimally utilizing available grid capacity. You are more than just a Product Owner. You are the director, connector, and figurehead of your product domain. You ensure that stakeholders collectively follow the same direction, monitor the scope, and bring focus to an environment where new wishes and developments constantly arise.

You operate in a playing field where customer interests, laws and regulations, operational feasibility, societal impact, and technical possibilities continuously converge. It is precisely in this dynamic that you know how to provide direction, make choices, and connect parties.

You will work closely with product management, business analysts, operational departments, IT teams, chain partners, and external stakeholders. You are the one who maintains an overview, sets priorities, and ensures that efforts actually lead to concrete results for customers and the organization. You are responsible for a smooth transition from development to implementation. Together with Business Analysts, Implementation Consultants, and operations, you ensure the successful adoption of new working methods, processes, and systems.

You will be working within the Customer Interaction & Flex Products cluster. This cluster focuses on transparent, reliable, and efficient communication with customers and on developing flexible customer products that contribute to the energy transition and the reduction of grid congestion.

These are your responsibilities

You are a strong personality who easily switches between strategy, tactics, and execution. You know how to convince people without a formal hierarchical position and are capable of reducing complex issues to clear choices.

Furthermore, you have:

Interested? We would like to receive a CV and the following information (without this information, the CV will not be processed):

First possible start date

All-in rate (incl. travel, parking costs, and any overnight costs, excl. VAT)

Place of residence

Motivation

Two references will be requested upon onboarding.

• Description of the department (activities, staffing, and objectives)
• Job description
• Developing and communicating the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Grid Congestion domain.
• Maximizing the societal and organizational value of products and services within this domain.
• Taking the lead in complex decision-making processes where diverse interests converge.
• Building, maintaining, and actively managing a broad stakeholder network within and outside Enexis.
• Creating support for choices, priorities, and change initiatives.
• Monitoring scope, focus, and progress within the team and the broader stakeholder field.
• Prioritizing activities based on customer value, impact, risks, and strategic objectives.
• Identifying and managing dependencies within the chain and between different programs and teams.
• Stimulating collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement within the Agile team.
• Acting as an in-depth sparring partner on issues related to grid congestion, flexibility, and capacity allocation.
• Representing the product domain in chain-wide and organization-overarching consultations.
• Communicating a role model for Product Owners and other professionals within the domain and actively contributing to the further professionalization of product management within Enexis.
• Job requirements and wishes
• HBO or WO work and thinking level.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience as a Product Owner, Program Manager, Product Manager, or similar management role.
• Demonstrable experience with complex stakeholder environments where interests frequently conflict.
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong leadership qualities and the natural ability to get teams and stakeholders moving.
• Experience with Agile, Scrum, and SAFe.
• Knowledge of change processes, chain collaboration, and implementation issues.
• In-depth knowledge of grid congestion, transport scarcity, flexibility solutions, or the energy transition.
• Strong communication and managerial sensitivity.
• Professional Scrum Product Owner certification (PSPO I and II) or equivalent

Project details

• Start: ZSM
• Duration: 12 maanden
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Den Bosch, Noord-Brabant, NL
• Languages: Dutch