Strategy and business development

Join us in this role where you’ll work at the intersection of digital technologies, strategy, and innovation to contribute to shaping our strategic direction in the years to come. You will be part of advancing Artificial Intelligence (AI) efforts and other Digital technologies at Ørsted. Helping to surface new, innovative and transformative opportunities/use cases that can step change our competitiveness. 

A position in the Digital Innovation Catalyst team not only offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the digital future of a leading sustainability company, but also provides significant opportunities for personal growth in problem solving, project management, and digital innovation/AI expertise. 

Welcome to Digital Innovation
You’ll be part of of the Digital Innovation Catalyst where you, together with your colleagues, will shape and drive our digital aspirations to support a world that runs entirely on green energy. This role involves staying at the forefront of digital technology trends, including AI, and requires you to understand and integrate perspectives from various business areas and disciplines to create tangible business value.

You’ll be part of the broader Strategy, Innovation & In-house consulting function, which defines the company’s strategic direction and drives toward it. We are a diverse and social team that enjoys collaboration and knowledge sharing, while putting a strong focus on delivering results and providing continuous development opportunities.  

You’ll play an important role in:

• identifying and driving complex, high-value digital innovation initiatives across the organisation
• facilitating a process to surface opportunities by engaging with colleagues across the organisation, helping to scope new ways of applying AI and other digital technologies
• supporting AI enablement activities across the organisation to maintain and evolve employee AI literacy
• driving the strategic direction of Digital and AI Innovation across the company, in close partnership with the Corporate Strategy team
• providing insights on mid- to long-horizon digital innovations to step change our competitiveness, including novel digital business models and emerging digital technologies
• collaborating closely with our agile organisation, IT teams, and technical colleagues in Digital Innovation to enable prioritisation of use cases and deliver priority initiatives
• where relevant, mentoring or managing the workload of more junior team-members.

To succeed in the role, you:

• have experience from either a management consultancy, another energy company, or from a digital, innovation or strategy function from a large corporation or scale-up
• have a holistic problem-solving mindset when taking on challenges, utilising systems thinking or other techniques to develop effective solutions
• have a strong drive to deliver high-quality work, a willingness to learn, and a self-starting attitude
• have hands-on experience with scoping and prioritising digital or innovation opportunities, ideally with AI, including quantifying value potential and feasibility
• have a sound analytical understanding and ability to grasp and communicate key insights which can help drive digital innovation across the organisation
• have a collaborative and diverse mindset and can create and sustain trust-based relationships with your stakeholders
• have a firm grasp of recent developments in the AI space, including but not limited to Agentic models, AI compliance and the challenges when implementing enterprise AI solutions.

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.

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 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.