Sustainability Manager
Keeping the Netherlands powered, that is our mission.
As a Sustainability Manager, you ensure that sustainability is structurally embedded in our organisation. Together with your team, you work on topics such as climate and human rights, contributing to a stable and sustainable energy system.
Your profile and background
- A completed Master’s degree in Sustainability, Sustainability Management, Environmental Sciences, or Human Rights and Business
- 5–10 years of experience in sustainability / CSR with a proven track record of delivering results
- Knowledge of EU sustainability reporting and due diligence frameworks such as CSRD, CSDDD, EU Forced Labour Regulation, and OECD Guidelines
- Strong skills in translating data and insights into clear narratives, reporting, and presentations across disciplines
- Solid planning, organisational, and cross\-functional collaboration capabilities
- Proficiency in English (minimum B2 level, written and spoken)
- Knowledge of the Dutch language is a plus
- Strategic thinking – translates sustainability ambitions and external developments into actionable strategies, ensuring long\-term impact across the organisation
- Stakeholder management – effectively engages and aligns internal and external stakeholders, ensuring collaboration across teams and the wider ecosystem
- Result orientation – drives execution of sustainability initiatives and ensures delivery of measurable outcomes in a complex environment
- Advisory capability – acts as a trusted expert and supports teams in translating strategy into practical actions
- Analytical capability – interprets regulatory frameworks and performance data, translating them into insights and metrics that steer decision\-making
- Collaboration – builds and strengthens internal sustainability networks, ensuring alignment and ownership across the organisation
Your contribution to TenneT
How do you keep the Netherlands powered?
As a Sustainability Manager, you are responsible for translating sustainability strategy into concrete actions across the organisation and its stakeholder landscape, ensuring that the Netherlands can continue to rely on reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy.
- You analyse the full sustainability framework and translate it into concrete actions across the organisation and value chain, ensuring strategic ambitions are embedded in operations and decision\-making.
- You develop and drive strategies for key themes such as climate and human rights, ensuring alignment with regulations and frameworks like CSRD, OECD guidelines, CSDDD and EU forced labor and due diligence requirements.
- You advise and guide internal teams as a subject matter expert, supporting them in implementing sustainability actions in line with TenneT’s strategic ambitions.
- You collaborate closely with reporting and compliance functions, ensuring sustainability performance and reporting meet regulatory and organisational standards.
- You represent TenneT in external stakeholder forums and working groups, strengthening positioning and ensuring alignment with societal, regulatory, and industry developments.
- You develop performance metrics and strengthen internal awareness and networks, ensuring sustainability is measurable, embedded, and continuously improved across the organisation.
Our recruiting process
Our offer
Flexibility
We are family friendly and flexible
Flexible working hours without fixed times and home office options allow you to organize your work individually. Our external partners also provide you with support services for various phases of life \- for example, in matters relating to household services or care and career.
Payment \& more
Attractive remuneration and social benefits
We offer great benefits such as a salary based on our Collective Labor Agreement, an annual bonus and excellent pension scheme.
Wellness Balance \& Personal Growth
Health \- your basis
Because we think it is important that you are healthy and feel good, we offer all kinds of great extras: we provide various opportunities to work out via our Always Energy program which offers a wide range of opportunities to indulge in sports (organised training for different sports, competitions and events). And you will receive a sports allowance if you are a member of a sports club.
Technology \& Innovation
Modern working environment
- Modern IT\-tools
- Ergonomic workstations
- Very well equipped conference rooms and communication solutions that enable cross\-location and cross\-border collaboration
This will be our challenge
Design translates TenneT’s strategy into a future\-proof vision of the energy system. Colleagues within this division have a front\-row view of today’s energy system and especially of tomorrow’s.
Design provides direction for system choices, designs the foundation of the energy system of the future, and creates room for faster implementation. In close alignment with our customers and public stakeholders, Design determines what is needed in the long term to ensure security of supply and system integrity.
Additional information
Our recruitment process consists of two interviews.
TenneT offers you the opportunity to contribute to a sustainable energy future. Together with colleagues, partners, and stakeholders, you will work on innovative solutions that enable the energy transition. At TenneT, you will have the space to develop your talent and work in an environment where your growth is central.
We offer you:* A permanent contract with a trial period of 2 months based on 40 hours per week
- A salary in scale 9: € 4\.816,\- to € 9\.472,\- per month with 8% holiday allowance and 6% year\-end bonus. Job grading is based on education, experience, knowledge and internal equity.
- A solid pension via ABP: we pay 70% of your premium.
- 43 vacation days per year.
- Hybrid working, including travel, internet, and home office allowances.
- Support for your vitality, with a contribution towards a gym membership and health insurance.
- Development opportunities through the TenneT Academy, so you can continue to expand your knowledge and skills.
Ready to make an impact?
Apply today and become part of our team!
Salary
4816 € \- 9472 €
Diversity
Since we use AI as part of our recruiting process, we would like to create transparency and clarity at this point. The AI serves exclusively as a supporting and recommending tool to make our processes even faster and more efficient. At no time are automated decisions made.
TenneT keeps the Netherlands powered. We transport electricity 24/7 across the high\-voltage grid, connect customers, and enable the energy transition by expanding the grid and using it more intelligently. Together with our partners, we work towards a reliable, affordable and resilient energy system. This is how we connect the Netherlands to a sustainable future.
Connecting everyone to a brighter energy future.
Recruiter
Recruiter
Miguel.Ortiz@tennet.eu
Human Resources
Talent Acquisition DEN/OPN/DTT/EN
Akshaya Prabakar
Fachlicher Ansprechpartner
akshaya.prabakar@tennet.eu
Design
Innovation \& Sustainability
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