Senior Grid Manager

At Alight, we’re on a mission to kick carbon off the grid by helping large businesses transition to solar energy. As we continue expanding across the Nordics — including utility-scale solar, BESS, Energy Hubs, and powered land initiatives — grid strategy is becoming one of the most critical enablers of our growth.

We’re now looking for a Senior Grid Manager to own and shape Alight’s Nordic-wide grid strategy and help ensure our development pipeline is built around what is actually grid-realistic.

This is a highly strategic role sitting within the Development team, where you will act as the senior grid voice across the business — guiding origination, portfolio decisions, partner selection, and cross-functional initiatives related to grid capacity, congestion, and connection strategy.

Your impact

What you’ll do

Shape Alight’s Nordic grid strategy

• Develop and continuously evolve Alight’s grid strategy across the Nordic markets

• Translate country-specific grid realities, congestion, reinforcement plans, regulations, and connection processes into actionable guidance for Development and Origination teams

• Advise on which project concepts (solar, solar+BESS, Energy Hubs, powered land, co-location with wind) are most viable depending on local grid conditions

• Support portfolio steering and investment decisions from a grid feasibility perspective

Act as Alight’s senior grid counterpart

• Lead senior-level relationships with TSOs, DSOs, and relevant regulatory bodies across the Nordics

• Anticipate and interpret regulatory and market developments related to grid access and connection procedures

• Support escalations and strategic discussions with grid operators and authorities

Support strategic development and acquisitions

• Partner closely with JDAs & Acquisitions teams to evaluate partner pipelines and M&A opportunities

• Develop practical grid evaluation frameworks and decision criteria for project screening

• Assess grid risks, opportunities, and constraints for strategic investment decisions

Guide complex grid execution

• Provide guidance and decision support to Project Developers and Grid Connection Managers on complex or high-risk connection cases

• Review and sign off on major connection strategies and grid offers for strategically important projects

• Capture lessons learned and continuously improve internal standards, policies, and decision-making frameworks

Collaborate cross-functionally

You’ll work closely with:

• Development teams on project strategy and pipeline prioritisation

• Revenue and Asset Management teams on how grid conditions affect tariffs, imbalance exposure, and commercial opportunities

• Engineering teams on BESS, Energy Hubs, and grid integration concepts

• External stakeholders including TSOs, DSOs, regulators, and development partners

We’re looking for you

• Has strong experience working with grid connections, grid strategy, power systems, or grid development within the energy sector

• Understands Nordic grid markets, connection processes, congestion challenges, and regulatory environments

• Has experience engaging with TSOs, DSOs, utilities, regulators, or large infrastructure stakeholders

• Can combine strategic thinking with practical understanding of how projects get connected in reality

• Is comfortable operating cross-functionally between Development, Revenue, Engineering, and external partners

• Has strong communication and stakeholder management skills

• Enjoys solving complex infrastructure and development challenges

• Is fluent in English

Experience within renewable energy, utility-scale solar, BESS, or energy infrastructure projects is highly valued.

What's in it for you

You will be part of an entrepreneurial scale-up in a flat, coaching, and knowledge-driven culture with a high degree of autonomy and accountability. Ever since we started, we've defined ourselves as a diverse company with global reach, which means that remote and flexible work is how we operate and our people are at the center of everything.

OTHER THINGS WE WANT YOU TO KNOW

• At Alight, we know the benefits that follow a diverse team, hence we’re looking broadly for talent!

• Our largest hubs are in Stockholm and Madrid, but our staff is spread across Europe, and our hybrid ways of working provide everyone with a fully flexible work setup

• We have a fun office vibe with regular team dinners, breakfasts and AWs, and sports activities. For example, we have a session with a running coach every Tuesday, and other ad hoc sports activities organized by employees, always paid for by the company

• Quarterly company events where we gather our remote team for a few days. This always includes some fun activities such as sailing, skiing etc.

• Flexible working hours and full flexibility to decide when to work remotely/at the office
  

Sounds like a fit? Apply today!