Director - Energy Management

Linde GmbH, Gases Division

Director - Energy Management (m/f/d)

All major locations in EMEA | req32818

What you will enjoy doing

• You will lead and shape a newly scaled Energy Management organization across the Europe, Middle East and Africa region, ensuring strong commercial and operational impact
• In this role you will define and steer the regional energy procurement strategy, balancing risk and reward while ensuring disciplined and transparent decision‑making
• You shall take responsibility for supporting operational optimization of energy consumption, including technical load‑management opportunities, flexibility technologies and the interface between commercial strategy and plant operations
• You are the key driver of governance through RBU Energy Boards, guaranteeing alignment on strategic parameters and enabling high‑quality decisions with regional decision‑responsible individuals
• Additionally, you will deliver significant productivity contributions and oversee large‑scale energy purchase decisions within agreed strategic cornerstones
• Furthermore, you will build senior capability in a high‑performing team, ensuring technical excellence, commercial discipline and strong collaboration across regions

What makes you great

• You will demonstrate strong strategic judgement and decision quality under uncertainty, balancing financial exposure, operational impact and risk‑reward considerations
• You are experienced in leading senior stakeholders and bring the skill needed to influence and align diverse regional situations
• You shall uphold an enterprise mindset and commercial discipline, ensuring coherent strategies across the Europe, Middle East and Africa region
• You bring more than ten years of experience in energy management and at least five years in industrial gases operations or comparable energy‑intensive industries
• You hold an academic degree in a technical or financial discipline and have proven experience in building and leading senior teams with high technical expertise
• Additionally, you have deep know‑how in energy procurement strategy, portfolio and risk management, energy trading products, operational optimization and flexibility technologies
• Lastly you have a track record of preparing or making large‑scale commercial decisions with significant financial exposure and cross‑regional impact

Why you will love working with us

Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2025 sales of $34 billion. We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high-quality solutions, technologies and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain, decarbonize and protect our planet. Linde serves a variety of end markets such as chemicals & energy, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, metals and mining. Linde’s industrial gases and technologies are used in countless applications, enabling space exploration and launch technologies, delivering ultra-high-purity and specialty gases for semiconductor manufacturing, providing life-saving medical oxygen and enabling clean hydrogen production and carbon capture to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Linde also delivers state-of-the-art gas processing solutions to support customer growth, efficiency improvements and emissions reductions. For more information about the company and its products and services, please visit linde.com

What we offer you!

At Linde, the sky is not the limit. If you’re looking to build a career where your work reaches beyond your job description and betters the people with whom you work, the communities we serve, and the world in which we all live, at Linde, your opportunities are limitless. Be Linde. Be Limitless.

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Linde GmbH, Gases Division acts responsibly towards its shareholders, business partners, employees, society and the environment in every one of its business areas, regions and locations across the globe. The company is committed to technologies and products that unite the goals of customer value and sustainable development.

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