Senior Governance & Change Manager (f/m/d)

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Governance & Change Manager to help shape and continuously improve how Digital Technology operates within E.ON Energy Markets (EMDT).

This role sits at the intersection of governance, transformation, operational excellence and organizational effectiveness. You will work closely with Digital Leadership, Product Teams, Enterprise Architects, Controllers and stakeholders across E.ON Energy Markets and Digital Technology to drive transparency, improve execution and ensure that strategic priorities are translated into measurable outcomes.

As E.ON Energy Markets continues to evolve its Digital Technology operating model, this role will play a central part in shaping how change is governed, how performance is managed and how cross-functional initiatives are delivered. You will challenge the status quo, identify opportunities for improvement and help create an environment that enables high-quality delivery in a fast-moving trading technology landscape.

This role goes beyond traditional project coordination or PMO activities. We are looking for someone who combines strong governance and organizational skills with an understanding of digital technology and energy trading, can challenge stakeholders constructively and is able to drive outcomes across organizational boundaries without formal authority.

What You Will Own

Governance and Change Management

• Own and continuously evolve the EMDT change management process within our SAFe/DevOps approach
• Drive improvements to governance, efficiency and delivery quality across the change lifecycle and ensure transparency across decisions, priorities, dependencies and organizational risks. Establish governance mechanisms that balance agility, quality and operational stability while adapting to AI-native product DevOps.
• Close collaboration with Energy Markets Business

Performance Management and Leadership Support

Own the preparation, coordination and continuous improvement of Performance Dialogues for EMDT and work closely with the digital leadership team to transform operational data management insights and prepare respective decision-ready content.

• Challenge assumptions, identify root causes and help ensure that actions result in measurable outcomes.
• Track commitments, actions and outcomes to strengthen accountability across the organization.

Operational Strategy Alignment

• Support the consolidation of product and domain-level strategies into a coherent operational target picture for Digital Technology.
• Work closely with Enterprise Architects, Domain Leads and Product Teams to identify synergies, dependencies and alignment opportunities.
• Facilitate cross-domain discussions and help ensure consistent execution against agreed priorities.
• Maintain transparency on strategic progress, risks and interdependencies.

Cross-Functional Management and Disaster Recovery

• Drive initiatives across teams (Product teams, Finance, Strategy) with different objectives, priorities and perspectives.
• Lead activities related to Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Management. This includes ensuring that recovery objectives, documentation and governance requirements are understood, maintained and monitored, as well as supporting the identification and resolution of recovery gaps.
• Contribute to the further development of resilience capabilities as an increasingly important pillar of Energy Markets Digital Technologies’ operational excellence.

What We Are Looking For

Required

• 10+ years of experience in IT governance, organizational effectiveness, operational excellence, transformation or comparable roles with a minimum of 5 years experience in C-level stakeholder management
• Knowledge of Energy Markets, Energy Trading and Trading Technologies
• Strong hands-on knowledge of AI technologies & tools, familiarity with AI-native product development
• High degree of resilience, ownership and organizational awareness.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with the ability to translate complex situations into structured decisions processes and actions.
• Excellent communication skills in English (German is a plus), facilitation and stakeholder management skills

Preferred

• Strong understanding of software delivery organizations
• Experience in collaborating with architects, developers as well as financial and business analyst functions.
• Understanding of IT-Infrastructure, Business Continuity Management and Disaster Recovery concepts.
• Experience preparing senior management material and facilitating decision-making processes.

What Success Looks Like

You will help build a Digital Technology organization that is:

Transparent in its governance. Efficient in its execution. Accountable in its delivery. Resilient in its operations. And continuously improving in the way it manages change.

You will be recognized as a trusted partner who enables leaders and teams to focus on delivering value by creating clarity, driving accountability and helping turn strategic ambition into operational reality.