Commercial Activation Manager

Join a fast-growing, listed company with a purpose! Fastned owns and operates a network of over 270 large fast charging stations across Europe, allowing electric vehicle drivers to charge their car with 100% green energy in just 15 minutes. At Fastned you will actively contribute to combating climate change by accelerating the transition to sustainable mobility. Fastned currently operates in seven countries (offices in Germany, the Netherlands, France, the UK, Switzerland, Belgium and Denmark) and we are pioneers in a progressive industry.

⚡Your role

As Commercial Activation Manager at Fastned, you are responsible for developing and maintaining our roaming commercial partnerships with mobility service providers (MSP), interoperability platforms and charge point operators (CPO). Working closely with our Legal, Product & Engineering, Network Operations and Finance teams, you will lead the development of the overall interoperability strategy and represent Fastned at industry associations.

So what specifically are you going to be working on?

• Developing Fastned’s overall roaming and interoperability strategy

• Leading initial outreach, prioritization and contract management with prospective partners

• Working closely with Legal and Product & Engineering teams on establishing contractual relationships and technical connections with partners

• Maintaining existing partnerships, managing contract renewal, new business development and scalable quality improvement initiatives

• Supporting Operations and Finance teams in escalating contact with strategic-level contact with partners, when necessary

• Representing Fastned’s interest at relevant industry associations (e.g., eViolin), and in setting industry roaming standards

• And lots more!

Requirements

Even though you might not have worked in the EV sector before, an affinity for our mission to accelerate the transition to sustainable mobility is key. At Fastned we hire builders - you are therefore a true entrepreneur! You are hands-on and want to do bold things while at the same time looking at the impact and effectiveness of what you are doing. This mindset helps you to make sound commercial and financial decisions. Additionally you tick the following boxes:

• We think that proven professional experience in a relevant role (e.g., commercial development, account management, consulting) is needed to succeed.

• Your curious mindset helps you to continuously learn, challenge the status quo and make improvements based on your ideas.

• Your organizational skills help you to manage the various projects efficiently and take commercially sound decisions

• You should demonstrate prior experience in negotiating with commercial partners, resolute, solution oriented and results driven

• You should have experience working with interdisciplinary teams with the ability to manage different stakeholders, both internally and externally

• Because we are an international company, fluent English is necessary, ideally you also speak one of the other relevant languages: Dutch, German, French.

Electric mobility is new territory for you? No problem! As part of your onboarding, you will participate in a series of exciting workshops where you will learn everything important about electric driving and fast charging infrastructure. This role is situated in our Amsterdam office, where you will join a team of fun & driven colleagues who are passionate about creating freedom for electric drivers. We are looking forward to welcoming you to our innovative and rapidly growing company!

⚡Join us in building a better future!

We work hard to change the world, but we don't forget to celebrate our successes, big and small. Our benefits include participation in the company stock options program and an attractive pension plan (fully covered by Fastned). Continuous development is important to us and our industry offers endless opportunities for knowledge enhancement, so each employee receives a €3,000 training and development budget per year. We provide daily vegetarian lunches & the best coffee at our Amsterdam headquarters close to the Amstel station. In or