Electric-Mobility Roaming Board Sounding Partner — Charging Networks

The mandate

The board repeatedly asks whether wider roaming coverage improves driver trust or adds partner routes whose failed authorisation, opaque tariff and delayed settlement create support cost. Management reports reachable connectors and sessions, but directors cannot see successful first-time charge, price comprehension, remedy, counterparty concentration and margin by roaming path. The next geographic expansion needs a firmer investment test.

The adviser will reserve two days monthly for chair preparation, management challenge and review of a partner or market paper, plus five committee meetings. A written view on a material roaming outage or tariff dispute is expected within one Swedish business day. Partner negotiation, regulatory advice or incident command requires a separate scope and cannot be absorbed into cadence.

The appointment runs ten months from January 2027. At month eight, the board will evaluate whether management can apply the roaming value and control framework independently. One four-month renewal may be approved by full-board vote for a named expansion decision; executives cannot extend the role, roll days forward or use advisory access for operational escalation.

This partner has no line authority, executive responsibility, tariff approval, regulatory role, procurement vote or power to bind a roaming counterparty. Advice challenges evidence, while accountable commercial and operations executives decide. The appointment cannot be presented as assurance of charger availability, correct billing or compliance, and management must record its response to material challenge.

Up to three other appointments are allowed with disclosure of roles involving charge-point operators, mobility providers, automakers, utilities, roaming hubs and payment firms. Compensation from an active partner or bidder may require recusal. Another network’s confidential tariff, failure or settlement data cannot be reused as anonymous benchmarking without permission.

Why the board wants this voice

Directors understand mobility growth and infrastructure finance but lack someone who has operated roaming journeys across authentication, charger, tariff, payment and settlement boundaries. Partnership teams emphasise coverage while customer operations sees failures. The board wants an independent practitioner who can expose when expansion creates durable utility and when it imports costly dependence.

What you will own

• Press directors to trace discovery, tariff display, authorisation, start, metering, stop, payment, settlement and remedy across each roaming path.
• Test whether connector reach translates into first-time successful sessions, comprehensible price, timely correction and retained driver use.
• Challenge economics that omit failed-session support, delayed settlement, tariff dispute, hub fees and partner-integration maintenance.
• Shape expansion gates around customer outcome, path resilience, counterparty concentration, margin and feasible bilateral fallback.
• Probe accountability where charger operator, mobility provider, hub, payment firm and utility each control part of one journey.
• Frame scenarios involving expired credential, stale tariff, offline charger, meter correction, hub outage and counterparty exit.
• Coach the committee to separate technical interoperability, commercial availability, regulatory obligation and customer trust.

Candidate qualifications

• Led EV charging, mobility roaming, payment or another multi-party transaction platform across several national operator networks.
• Reconciled charger sessions through authentication, tariff, metering, payment, settlement and customer remedy using retained event evidence.
• Changed a roaming expansion or partner decision after exposing support, failed-session, concentration or delayed-settlement economics.
• Governed degraded and bilateral fallback journeys across charge operators whose platforms and customer policies could not be controlled directly.
• Presented network-platform and tariff evidence to boards or regulators without assuming accountable commercial or compliance authority.
• Managed disclosed conflicts across charge operators, mobility services, utilities, automakers, roaming hubs and payment providers.

Non-negotiables

• Can attend all five Stockholm meetings despite remote regular delivery and preserve two days monthly for the term.
• Will disclose charging, mobility, utility, automotive, hub and payment relationships before receiving partner evidence.
• Accepts that tariff, partner, regulatory and operational decisions remain with accountable client executives.
• Must bring live roaming journey evidence; general EV infrastructure or platform strategy alone is insufficient.

1. 49 words maximum. Describe a roaming route whose connector coverage concealed poor first-time charge or remedy outcomes.
2. 49 words maximum. Which current operator, automaker, utility, hub or payment interests require board disclosure?
3. 49 words maximum. How would you price a roaming path’s full margin after failed-session and settlement effort?