Business Developer – Radical innovation

In the VELUX Group, we offer you a world of opportunities and the chance to create a bright future. From the forefront of the sustainable indoor living industry, we enable those who live, work and play under the roof transform their spaces and live a healthier everyday life with more daylight and fresh air.

The VELUX Group is an international, family-owned business with strong financial roots and each year we are able to create real impact by reinvesting in society, our employees and planet through our foundations.
Alongside the rest of our values, “courage” and “mutual respect” define our actions every day and how we wish to contribute to the world.

Are you commercially oriented, analytical and experienced in business development? Would you like to join a team that focus on discovering, incubating and accelerating business opportunities focusing on radical innovation?

Then come join us as Business Developer at VELUX!

This is your unique chance to join our Radical Innovation and New Business Development team in “Buildings of the Future” – a team that has been established to discover, incubate and accelerate business opportunities leveraging ecosystem insights, radical innovation, partnerships and start-up engagement.

The purpose of the “Buildings of the Future” is to lead the way towards sustainable and healthy buildings, while ensuring that VELUX solutions are an increasingly desired part of future building designs. “Buildings of the Future” serves as an innovation- and business development unit to our Products & Innovation organization with both highly specialized competencies within indoor climate, daylight, energy and sustainability, as well as more generic areas such as business and strategy development, partnerships and start-up engagement. Finally, “Buildings of the Future” is playing a key role in pioneering climate and nature action, and leads the strategic efforts in showing the industry how to build sustainably.

Your challenges

As a Business Developer in Radical Innovation and New Business Development at VELUX, you will support the assessment of market potential and the commercial viability of our innovation projects. You will assist in driving new product development and in building the relevant materials and training to support the commercial organization.

More specifically, you will:

• Assist in conducting market research and analysis.
• Develop and validate business cases for new innovation projects.
• Work closely with senior business developers and other teams to ensure project alignment.
• Help coordinate the go-to-market strategy for new product launches.
• Create training programs and materials to equip the sales team with the knowledge needed for successful product launches.
• Monitor and report on the performance of new business opportunities in the market.

Depending on where you reside, you will be based at our innovation hub, LKR Innovation House, in Østbirk or at our headquarters in Hørsholm. You will report directly to Senior Director of Radical Innovation & New Business Development, Nicolò Nielsen.

Your qualifications

You are known for your analytical and commercial mindset, and you are proficient in adapting to new information and unexpected changes. Naturally curious, you embrace the unknown and are open to exploring new methods, with innovative thinking being one of your strengths. Your eagerness to learn and drive progress motivates you to take initiative in your work, and you are dedicated to achieving your goals and taking ownership of your deliverables.

Your structured and systematic approach enables you to simplify complex tasks, meet deadlines, and create clear and precise pitch, launch, and presentation materials. Additionally, you thrive in collaborative environments and possess a strong team-oriented mindset. Your solid stakeholder management skills allow you to work and communicate effectively across all organizational levels and with a diverse group of stakeholders.

Additionally, you:

• Hold a relevant Master’s degree with a commercial focus
• Bring a few years of experience in business development or similar, which has made you proficient in one or more of the following disciplines; market analyses, customer engagement, pricing and product positioning
• Hold profound analytical skills and the ability to interpret data, build insights, make storylines and develop value propositions
• Communicate in English at a professional level – verbally and in writing
• Might have experience from building materials industry, though not a requirement

Your opportunities

Headquartered in Hørsholm north of Copenhagen, The VELUX Group is the world leader in roof windows and skylights. We are family and foundation owned with a long history of strong results.

The VELUX Group offers exciting challenges, great opportunities to influencing your own development and a chance to work with competent and dedicated colleagues where commitment and mutual respect are among the core values. In this role, you will have the opportunity to really impact the long-term perspective for VELUX as a business.

We are a company where you can have fulfilling and interesting work and still have balance in your life and time for your interests outside of work. We believe in empowering people, and we support this by providing a high degree of freedom and investing in people who have the will and the ability to make a difference.

Application and contact

Read more about the VELUX Group at www.velux.com, where you can also learn more about working at our company and what to expect in our recruitment process.

We look forward to receiving your application and CV. We will start reviewing candidates in January and conduct interviews on an ongoing basis. All enquiries will be treated confidentially.

Equal Opportunity Employer
VELUX Residential is fully committed to the concept and practice of equal opportunity in all aspects of employment. To further our goal of equal employment opportunity for all employees and prospective employees, it is the policy of VELUX Residential to recruit, hire, train, and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, protected veteran status, national origin, sexual orientation, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. All employment decisions shall be consistent with the principle of equal employment opportunity and only job-related qualifications will be required.

Location: Ådalsvej 99 Hørsholm

Additional location:

• Industrivej 12 Østbirk