For this challenging role, we are seeking a Regional Director for North Brabant (Coordinating Regional Stakeholder Manager). As a Regional Director, you will be the first point of contact, both internally and externally, for environmental and stakeholder management in North Brabant. You will develop and monitor the integrated regional approach and work closely with environmental managers, communications advisors, and project teams. You will also be responsible for coordination, knowledge sharing, and internal alignment within the regional team, and you will represent our Group in regional consultations such as the EnergyBoards in North Brabant. You will safeguard our reputation in North Brabant, translate current developments into actions, and ensure our stakeholders are well-informed.

As regional director of North Brabant:

• You are the point of contact for the Group in North Brabant (internal and external) and keep an overview of what is happening in the region.
• You participate in and prepare the EnergyBoard Noord-Brabant (BBOE), the EnergyBoard Moerdijk and the associated official preparatory groups (including annotations and briefings);
• Organize and manage the process for informing the region and stakeholders about broad topics of regional importance, such as grid congestion, grid visions, investment plans, and project delays.
• Carry out cross-project environmental and stakeholder management, including issue analyses and concrete interventions where necessary;
• Establish and maintain an overview of the most important stakeholders in North Brabant and actively maintain contact with them;
• Develop, maintain and implement the regional SOM-COM plan (environment & communication) and, together with the regional communications advisor, ensure actions that strengthen our reputation;
• Compile files on current topics and share relevant information within the project teams;
• Create your briefings and annotations for board members or directors;
• Translate current and corporate themes of our Group to the regional context of North Brabant and incorporate these into the stakeholder approach;
• Organize your internal multidisciplinary regional consultation;
• Monitor external communication and participation processes for North Brabant;
• Based on an overview of all projects in the region, you ensure a balanced distribution of work within the regional team;
• Work together with colleagues from Political Affairs, Corporate Communications and Media Relations;
• Report bi-weekly to the Head of Community Relations.

What do you need to be successful?

• A relevant HBO or WO education, for example in public administration, urban planning, communication or spatial planning;
• At least 5 to 10 years of experience with participation processes and stakeholder management in complex infrastructure projects;
• Good strategic insight and the ability to switch between operational, tactical and managerial levels;
• Strong analytical skills and a sense of political and administrative relationships;
• Diplomacy, empathy and persuasiveness in contacts with various parties;
• Experience in developing environmental strategies and participation processes;
• Knowledge of spatial and infrastructural developments, preferably within the energy sector;
• The ability to create internal and external support and make connections;
• A proactive attitude, natural leadership and a solution-oriented mindset;
• Knowledge of and a network in North Brabant is a clear advantage;
• You are enthusiastic and driven to work with your colleagues on the energy transition.

Important Information:

A team consists of environmental managers and communications advisors, spread across various regions (provinces) in the Netherlands. These are overseen by a regional director and a regional communications advisor. The candidate will be deployed as a regional director and will be responsible for the North Brabant region. North Brabant is a complex province in terms of complexity.

The regional director will address supra-regional themes. This includes preparations for the energy boards, the translation of national themes and issues, provincial grid visions, grid strategy, congestion issues per province, etc. The regional director will handle these and translate them. This concerns more important, strategic themes per province. Also consider the director's briefing and annotating for administrative meetings, where the regional director will also participate in the preliminary discussions.

Given the demanding nature of the role, the candidate must have specific experience in the energy sector. A highly experienced/skilled environmental manager with several years of strategic experience (a strict requirement!), for example, at Rijkswaterstaat (the Dutch Directorate-General for Public Works and Water Management) or ProRail, is also eligible. The candidate must understand the administrative structure of the Netherlands. This includes, for example, meetings with aldermen.

Location: 2 days a week Arnhem, 1 or 2 days a week appointments in the North Brabant region (where we also have an office), other days remote.