Head of U.S. Competency Center

Imagine a future where you work as a People Leader in the world’s most innovative energy enterprise aiming to create a world that runs entirely on green energy. 

Join us in this role where you’ll lead a thriving, motivated, and supportive competence team. You’ll participate in or drive different leadership initiatives, such as global competence strategy development, talent development, inclusion and diversity, and leaders’ development.

Welcome to U.S. IT

You’ll be part of US IT Capability Area where together with your colleagues you will be accountable for the performance, growth, and job satisfaction for one or more groups of employees, the total number of people vary depending on the context, but usually a team of approximately 25-30 employees across the Americas Region. As a team, we… are very passionate about our work and our company vision and collaborate with local and global stakeholders to achieve our business goals and embrace learning opportunities.

You’ll Play an Important role in:

• people management/leadership for approximately 25-30 people and a varying number of external consultants
• recruiting, hiring, developing employees in collaboration with Delivery Organizations
• driving and ensuring job satisfaction, motivation and retention under the agreed People Leadership methodology
• ongoing dialogue with and evaluation of the employees, eg. regular 1:1 with employees, dialogues with key stakeholders in the delivery organization and/or the Center of Excellence. Relevant roles could be Scrummaster, (IT) Product Owner, Release Train Engineer, Solution Manager, IT Architect, Product Manager
• using stakeholders’ feedback to drive necessary improvements and adjustments to competencies, job satisfaction and performance
• executing the annual people processes e.g. conducting employees’ People Review, Personal Development Dialogue (PDD), High-potential talent cycle, Salary Review, Follow-up PDD, Performance Rewards (Special Recognition Awards and Promotions), and People Matter (employee satisfaction survey). All will be done in close collaboration with the delivery organization 

To succeed in this role, you:

• bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Science, Business Administration or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in software development, with 4+ years of experience in coaching and mentoring Agile skills, the Scrum Framework, Scrum of Scrums leadership and working in SAFe
• SAFe SASM, CSP, PSC or other advanced Agile certification required.
• Have the ability to understand, execute, and coach the team and program levels of SAFe: e.g. RTE, Product Management, Architects etc.
• have the ability to work directly with technical and product teams, as well as program and senior IT leadership
• have experience in leading in a matrix organization in a larger enterprise, including complexity, influencing without direct authority and managing multiple stakeholders (remarkable networker and relationship-builder)

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.

Join a global leader in renewable energy
Ørsted is a growing green energy major and global leader in climate action. With us you’ll play a part in driving change towards a green energy future. You’ll grow your talent in a fast-paced and high-growth industry where you have plenty of opportunities to learn and develop through challenging assignments and industry-leading experts. Here, you can perform in a friendly work environment based on trust, respect, and collaboration.

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 accomodation@orsted.com.

Please note that you’re expected to do some travelling in relation to your work, as you’ll visit our domestic locations incl. operating and under construction project sites, external partner offices and attend various industry related events.  You can expect to travel less than a quarter of the time

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.