Strategy and business development

Join us in this role where you’ll lead the strategic direction of digital and AI innovation across Ørsted, ensuring alignment with our broader innovation and business goals. You’ll identify high-impact opportunities, shape use cases, and orchestrate their progression from concept to business-aligned scaling through cross-functional collaboration, while fostering digital capability and AI literacy across the organisation.

Welcome to Digital Innovation
You’ll be part of the Digital Innovation team where you, together with your colleagues, will collaborate across business units, IT, and Strategy to drive forward-thinking digital initiatives.

As a team, we combine curiosity, collaboration, and a passion for shaping the future through new digital technologies.

You’ll play an important role in:

• setting and communicating a clear strategic vision for enterprise-wide digital and AI innovation in close partnership with Strategy and senior leadership
• identifying and prioritising digital opportunities with measurable business value that enhance our competitiveness
• overseeing the creation of robust business cases and value frameworks to inform investment decisions
• serving as a strategic advisor to senior leaders on the potential, limitations, and implications of digital and AI initiatives
• leading a five-people team of digital innovation strategists and fostering a high-performance culture
• championing AI and digital literacy as key enablers of organisational transformation and future readiness.

To succeed in the role, you:

• bring experience from strategy consulting, corporate innovation, or leading digital transformation at scale
• excel at influencing senior stakeholders and leading through ambiguity
• possess excellent analytical and communication abilities, including story lining and content creation
• understand emerging digital technologies and their business applications and are an experienced user of generative AI yourself
• thrive at the intersection of business and technology, building bridges between strategic goals and digital capabilities
• are passionate about capability-building and embedding innovation mindsets across the organisation.

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.