Senior Certificates Trader

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Real mandate – Your strategies directly drive desk performance and portfolio growth within a rapidly expanding certificates franchise

Structural market opportunity – Trade across EU ETS, GoOs and emerging environmental products where regulation, liquidity gaps and cross‑commodity flows create exploitable inefficiencies

Freedom backed by scale – Entrepreneurial trading environment with access to Eneco’s balance sheet, data capabilities and physical market flows

Why choose Eneco?
The European environmental markets are evolving rapidly. Carbon, guarantees of origin, biomethane certificates, and beyond. At Eneco Energy Trade, we don’t just follow this transition – we actively shape it.

As a Senior Certificates Trader, you will play a key role in scaling our renewable molecules and environmental certificates portfolio across Europe. You combine strategic vision with execution power and know how to turn market insight into measurable P&L impact.

The energy transition is no longer theoretical – it’s a live market. Biomethane, hydrogen and biogenic CO₂ are creating entirely new trading dynamics.

Within our Certificates Desk, you’ll operate at the intersection of:

Voluntary & compliance carbon markets

European certificate schemes

Emerging renewable molecule markets

Structured and cross‑commodity opportunities

What You’ll Do

Develop and execute proprietary trading strategies in European environmental markets

Identify structural inefficiencies and translate them into actionable positions

Build analytical frameworks and pricing models

Manage positions dynamically in response to regulatory and market developments

Collaborate with Business Development on origination and new market flows

Is this about you?

5+ years trading experience in commodities and/or environmental certificates

Demonstrated track record in strategy development and performance delivery

Strong commercial instinct and entrepreneurial mindset

Quantitative understanding and risk awareness

Ability to operate independently in fast‑moving markets

Based in the Netherlands or willing to relocate

You’ll be responsible for

End‑to‑end strategy ownership and P&L performance

Risk management within defined trading limits

Capital allocation decisions within your mandate

Scaling profitable strategies and growing the certificates franchise

Maintaining disciplined execution and compliance standards

This is where you’ll work
You’ll join Eneco Energy Trade (EET), Eneco’s international trading hub, based in Rotterdam (next to Rotterdam‑Alexander station). With 160 professionals, EET operates across power, gas, LNG, environmental markets and renewable molecules. The culture is entrepreneurial, collaborative and performance‑driven, combining trading sharpness with long‑term transition impact.

What We Have To Offer

Gross annual salary between €95,000 and €145,000 including Flex Budget, 8% holiday allowance, and depending on your role a bonus or collective profit sharing

Personal and professional growth – Eneco is fully committed to help you in your personal and professional development

Hybrid working: home, office or abroad – 40% at the office, 40% from home, and 20% flexibly; with manager approval, you may work abroad (within approved countries) up to 3 weeks per year, max 2 consecutively

Want more information about our terms of employment?
Here’s what you get from us:
Work that works for you and the climate. If you decide on a career at Eneco, you are choosing ambition, growth and opportunities. You will have all the space you want to improve yourself and do your job the way that suits you best, which includes having a good work‑life balance. You can work to a flexible schedule and work partly from home if your role allows it.

That is how you can work on your own future and on the future of the world. After all, you and your 4,000 colleagues are committed to our mission: climate neutrality by 2035. We assist customers to accelerate their sustainability efforts, devise innovative solutions and seize opportunities with both hands. Are you ready?

The phases of our application procedure
With this job opening, we want to recruit a new Eneco colleague ourselves. This is not a call for acquisition.

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