Strategy and business development

Join us in this role where you’ll serve as a consistent point of contact with landowners, local stakeholders, and community leaders throughout the development and execution of projects. You will assist the team in identifying appropriate community investments, donations, sponsorships, volunteer activities, and speaking engagements while tracking such activities. You will also develop presentations, identify venues, and ensure the proper Ørsted brand standards are met.

Welcome to Commercial Development
You’ll be part of Central and East Development where you, together with your colleagues, will coordinate and collaborate with various internal teams including the Head of Local Engagement on landowner and local stakeholder interactions and engagements.

As a team, we exercise initiative and independent, proactive planning within a team structure, guided by Ørsted’s mission and needs along with manager direction.

You’ll play an important role in:

• meeting with landowners once the project has achieved a critical mass of real estate acquisition in coordination with Development, land agents, and Land Administration
• developing and executing a program for proactive, regular communication with consistent messaging to landowners and local stakeholders through a variety of media in coordination with Development, Land Administration, Communications Branding and Marketing, Government Affairs, and external consultants
• coordinating landowner welcome gift program, including identifying appropriate gifts, ordering, and delivery
• building a wider supporter base using landowner connections, such as their friends, relatives, and community groups
• assisting the Government Affairs team and industry partners in mobilizing landowners to support pro-renewable policies and initiatives. 

To succeed in the role, you:

• demonstrate a strong customer service mindset 
• have excellent interpersonal skills to build friendly relationships with stakeholders in multiple demographics and backgrounds, both internally and externally 
• can clearly communicate ideas and concepts to a diverse range of stakeholders 
• track and organize data and information collection for proper record keeping, analysis, and reporting 
• have experience interacting with local officials and community leaders. 

Maybe you’ve read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don’t quite match all the points. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply. We would lilke to note that this position location is also flexible to other office locations outside of Austin, Chicago, and Houston.

Shape the future with us
Send your application to us as soon as possible. We’ll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis and reserve the right to take down the advert when we’ve found the right candidate.

As an applicant or employee, you may request reasonable work and position accommodation or adjustments via accommodation@orsted.com.

Please note that you’re expected to do some travelling in relation to your work, as you’ll

Please note that for your application to be taken into consideration, you must submit your application via our online career pages and answer the screening questions relevant for your country. We don't take applications or inquiries from external recruiters or agencies into account for this position.