CCO - PowerQ

PowerQ offers a challenging executive position with plenty of room for entrepreneurship, initiative, and personal impact. You get the chance to help shape a growing organization and make a decisive contribution to the international ambitions.

You work in a compact, professional environment with short decision-making lines and direct influence on the commercial direction, organization, service delivery, and development of new propositions.

The location is Rotterdam. The international responsibility entails regular travel to clients and partners at home and abroad.

PowerQ is building a leading European position in independent energy procurement and energy management, with the ambition to subsequently grow beyond that. With an international partner network and its own technology platform PowerQ Connect, the company is laying the foundation for further expansion. To realize this ambition, we are looking for an entrepreneurial Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) who opens new markets, wins multinationals, and builds a commercial organization capable of supporting that growth.

A versatile executive position for a commercially strong leader who thinks big, opens doors personally, and knows how to turn opportunities into concrete results.

As CCO, you hold ultimate commercial responsibility for PowerQ in the Netherlands and Europe. You develop the commercial direction and translate international ambition into new clients, strong partnerships, and growth in revenue and margin. You sell personally at the board and executive level while simultaneously building a commercial organization that operates with increasing independence and scalability.

Together with the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and the founder, who is also the majority shareholder and chairman, you form the executive team. You share collective responsibility for growth and business results. You focus primarily on commercial development and the expansion of the international network. The COO ensures that this growth is realized operationally and technologically.

The main responsibilities are

• International growth and market development: determining where the greatest commercial opportunities lie, opening new markets, and developing propositions that align with large organizations and multinationals.
• Multinationals and strategic client relationships: personally building relationships with executives, CFOs, and those responsible for energy and procurement. Translating complex client issues into multi-year agreements and appropriate pricing and profit-share models.
• Partner network and commercial collaboration: selecting, activating, and developing international partners and connecting local expertise to a shared commercial direction. Assessing the commercial potential of possible acquisitions, with the founder leading the acquisition process.
• Leadership and commercial organization: managing and developing account management, client relationship management, and channel management, and providing direction to the external acquisition and sales agency and the brand agency.
• Technology and new revenue models: translating the possibilities of PowerQ Connect, data, and AI into concrete client value, distinctive propositions, and additional commercial opportunities.
• Entrepreneurship and results: realizing revenue and margin growth and, together with the founder and COO, weighing commercial opportunities, operational feasibility, investments, and returns.

You operate at the intersection of strategy and execution. You set sharp priorities, remain personally involved in important commercial trajectories, and roll up your sleeves. You will be given the space to exert actual influence on the development and future of PowerQ.

You do not necessarily have to come from the energy sector. Candidates from other complex business environments can also fit excellently, provided they master new subject matter quickly and have demonstrated commercial responsibility. A background in consultancy may also be a match, provided you have personally won clients and taken responsibility for commercial results.

Above all, we are looking for someone who consciously chooses an entrepreneurial building task. A leader who takes independent initiative, knows how to bring people and partners along, and feels comfortable in direct collaboration with a committed founder and a complementary COO. You form your own opinion, dare to provide substantive counterweight, and feel responsible for PowerQ as a whole.