Stakeholder Manager North-East Brabant

• A permanent contract with a two-month probationary period, based on 32 to 40 hours per week.
• A salary in scale 8: €4,276 to €8,443 per month with 8% holiday allowance, 6% year-end bonus, and 70% pension contribution.
• A solid pension via ABP: we pay 70% of your premium.
• 43 vacation days per year.

All mentioned employment conditions apply to full-time employment, unless stated otherwise.

We attach great value to a good work-life balance and your personal development. Therefore, we offer flexible solutions such as:

• Hybrid working, including a travel allowance, internet allowance, and a home office allowance.
• Support for your vitality, with a contribution towards a sports subscription and health insurance.
• Development opportunities via the TenneT Academy, so that you can continue to expand your knowledge and skills.

We stimulate initiative and give you the space to come up with new ideas. Together, we ensure that the Netherlands stays in motion and is ready for the energy of tomorrow.

Keeping the Netherlands running: that is what we work on every day at TenneT. More and more companies, homes, and means of transport run on electricity. This requires a stronger high-voltage grid, especially in Brabant. As a Stakeholder Manager, you ensure that this grid is implemented in good consultation with the surrounding environment. In this way, you keep the Netherlands running, today and tomorrow. Ready to make that connection?

In North-East Brabant, around the Wijchen sub-grid, TenneT is working on solutions to enable the energy transition in this and the surrounding areas. Before we can build, space must be found. For this, spatial decisions are needed that the environment can support. As a stakeholder manager, you ensure that the voice of the environment counts: from landowners and interest groups to local governments and the ministry.

Because projects intersect, you always look further than your own project. Sometimes you work in one environment while the solution is intended for an adjacent area. This requires insight, diplomacy, and a good sense of what is happening in the entire region. The workload is increasing. Therefore, we are expanding team South with an experienced stakeholder manager who will become the face of TenneT here. You build sustainable, long-term relationships with stakeholders.

As a stakeholder manager, you connect the environment with our projects. You translate the wishes of the environment into the project. Conversely, you make the importance and necessity of the project clear to the environment. You are the permanent face of TenneT for the environment, from planning to realization. You always keep the long-term relationship with the environment in mind. You ensure support and understanding, inform the environment in a timely and careful manner, and prevent surprises. With clear plans, securing customer requirements in the correct systems, and communication in the right tone, you contribute to a traceable, transparent, and therefore supported environmental process.

• You are the primary point of contact for the environment surrounding one or more TenneT projects in North-East Brabant. You engage in dialogue with external stakeholders and landowners, know what is happening in the region, and maintain intensive contact. You know the region, understand the cultural differences between the areas, and therefore always strike the right tone.
• You listen well to the environment, signal important points of attention among stakeholders, and act decisively yet thoughtfully. You work extensively with stakeholders who are emotionally involved. You take their concerns seriously and handle them with care.
• You shape participation processes and coordinate their execution. Together with the communications advisor, with whom you form a tandem, you prepare the external communication and participation processes of the projects.
• You follow current events, political-administrative developments, and TenneT's plans in the region for the medium and long term. You translate these into what they mean for the region and your projects. You also make the technical choices of our grid strategists understandable to the environment. You prepare dossiers, maintain them, and share the information with the project teams.
• You work closely with your fellow stakeholder managers, the communications advisors, the regional directors, the regional grid operator, partners in the region, and colleagues within and outside the team who also have external contacts in this region. Because many projects run simultaneously in a small area, you work integrally and continuously keep an eye on overarching issues and the effect on other projects. Together, you build a broad network, an integrated stakeholder approach, a consistent story, and a strong reputation for TenneT in the region.
• You work according to a uniform approach and with standardized tools for environmental management. Where possible, you involve market parties. You delegate work to them and monitor the quality of what they deliver.

You are regularly found in the region and are visible to stakeholders. Your base is Weert: that is where we come together for team days and meetings. Furthermore, you work at project locations in North-East Brabant or from home. It also frequently occurs that you are out in the evenings for information evenings and meetings with the environment.

Do you not yet have much substantive knowledge of the electricity grid? No problem: you will simply learn that with us on the job.

To truly make a difference in this role, you recognize yourself in the following competencies:

• Customer orientation: You know the region and know what is happening with landowners, residents, administrators, and other stakeholders. You anticipate their needs independently and follow up on matters so that questions and problems are truly resolved. You use their feedback to improve your approach.
• Balancing interests: You work across projects and look beyond your own project. You explore the expectations and requirements of internal and external stakeholders, take all relevant interests into account, and respond to potential conflicts with fair, transparent, and balanced considerations.
• Interpersonal insight: You have an eye for others. You build a good rapport with many different people, both inside and outside TenneT, by finding shared interests. In difficult situations, you are diplomatic and you are good at picking up on what is happening beneath the surface.

Additionally, you recognize yourself in our core value Connection: strengthening each other for a better result. You are curious, proactive, and understand what others need.

At TenneT, much attention is paid to diversity and inclusivity. By working together with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and perspectives, we get better ideas, work more safely, and everyone feels they belong.

TenneT offers you the chance to contribute to a sustainable energy future. Together with colleagues, partners, and stakeholders, you will work on innovative solutions that make the energy transition possible. With us, you will get the space to develop your talent and work in an environment where your growth is central.