Transformation Director - drive changes in a technically founded environment

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 an experienced transformation or change manager with a good business understanding, who is motivated by working with a wide range of stakeholders in an international matrix organization? Do you have a results-oriented mindset, and do you bring a proven history of achieving hard to reach targets? Do you want to play a significant role in the future of VELUX, by driving some of our most important transformation initiatives in the years to come?

Then join us in the exciting and influential role as our new Transformation Director!

Your Challenges
Joining us at our offices in Østbirk, you will report directly to Senior Director of Technology Portfolio and Exploration, Anne Kathrine Laursen. You will be part of a team with 5 close colleagues plus our leadership team, a department with 75+ colleagues and your daily tasks and assignments will give you a large span of contacts across the Products organization as well as across the full VELUX organization, especially our Supply organization (Procurement, Production, Logistics etc.).

You will join a company and an organization with flexibility to ensure that the personal and professional life goes hand in hand, and we value getting to know you as a person at the workplace. We are a multinational organization with 18 different nationalities, we are focused on creating a diverse work environment, and each year we successfully arrange a series of social events for our employees – and we hope you want to participate as well.

Your responsibility will be to lead multiple transformational changes across areas such as Products and Innovation, including but not limited to topics such as new material and technology introduction, sustainability and circular product topics. You will develop and implement transformation strategies to ensure effective transformation projects, e.g. by fostering collaboration across functions. It is important to underline that the transformation organization and the “how to” is not defined at point in time – we expect you to be part of the definition and establishment of this.

More specifically, you will:

• Develop and implement transformation strategies aligned with organizational goals, including new ways of working internally and with externals.
• Act as the face of the transformations.
• Lead the execution of strategic initiatives to drive transformational change.
• Create and communicate a compelling vision for change.
• Develop change management plans, including stakeholder engagement and communication.
• Fully integrate into the executive team, reporting directly to top management.
• Provide regular updates on transformation progress and milestones.
• Monitor progress and adjust tactical plans accordingly.
• Enable data-driven decisions.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and operational efficiency.

You should expect approx. 20-30 days of travelling per year within Denmark and Europe.

Your Qualifications
To be the ideal candidate for this role, it is important that you:

• Bring 10+ years’ of experience, hereof minimum 6-7 years within change management, transformation management or similar roles.
• Bring a solid technical understanding of and ability to work in a technically founded environment.
• Have a proven track record of leading large-scale transformation initiatives or projects in an international matrix organization, with exposure to VP and SVP Management levels.
• Bring a mix of practical experience and a “theoretical” tool box within transformation management.
• Have great business understanding.
• Are a great communicator, especially in your interaction with your key stakeholders and in presentations.
• Are able to work effectively and efficiently in an environment where resistance to change may be present, and where we progress by obtaining support for the transformation on all levels of the organization.
• Speak and write English proficiently.

Through our interactions, we'll recognize you as someone with a vibrant enthusiasm and independent initiative. You have a profound ability to inspire, lead, and challenge the status quo, and you always showing inspire enthusiasm and commitment in people around you. You thrive when challenging conventional thinking and encouraging innovative solutions. You are enthusiastic about driving meaningful change and shaping the future of an organization, while leveraging emotional intelligence to navigate complex organizational dynamics.

Your opportunities
This is your chance to become part of a department of skilled specialists in a technologically advanced, international environment where development, quality, procurement and production form the synthesis to deliver the VELUX products of tomorrow.

You will work in a setting where knowledge is shared, and responsibility is given to those who can and will. Our team is characterised by an informal tone and respect for each other both as team members and as individuals. We are a solid value-based company where commitment, courage, agility and mutual respect are among the core values and teamwork and professionalism is essential to the way we work.

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 as soon as possible! We will review candidates 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: Industrivej 20 Østbirk