Senior 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 and analytical and do you hold several years of experience in business development, identifying opportunities, bringing new products to market, and leading go-to-market strategy? 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 Senior 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 Senior Business Developer in Radical Innovation and New Business Development at VELUX, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our innovation projects. You will be responsible for assessing market potential, ensuring the commercial viability of our innovation projects, and driving new product launches.

Your expertise will be crucial in building business cases, identifying target markets, detailing go-to-market strategies and driving successful product launches together with the sales organization.

More specifically, you will:

• Conduct comprehensive market analysis to identify opportunities and challenges.
• Develop and validate business cases for innovation projects.
• Lead the go-to-market strategy for new business opportunities, driving pilots, external partnerships and product launches as required.
• Drive the commercialization of new business opportunities in collaboration with regional stakeholders, identify market challenges and proactively address them to scale new solutions
• Collaborate with technical and commercial teams to ensure alignment on project goals..

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 characterized by your analytical and commercial mindset, and you easily adjust to new information and unexpected changes. You are curious by heart, comfortable with the unknowns and open to exploring new ways of doing things, and innovative thinking is one of your specialties. Your eagerness to learn and move things forward, drives you to take initiative in your work, and you are committed to achieving your goals and take ownership of your deliverables.

With your structured and systematic approach, you have an ability to simplify what’s complex, deliver on your deadlines and make clear and precise pitch, launch and presentation materials.

Moreover, you enjoy working with others and hold a collaborative mindset. Utilizing your solid stakeholder management skills, and you efficiently work and communicate across all levels of an organization and with a diverse group of stakeholders. You quickly establish rapport with people at all levels and your demeanor instills trust and confidence by which you are able to incentivize and motivate stakeholders to buy-in. You actively propose, recommend and lead the way, but you understand that to succeed, you must be an even stronger listener.

Additionally, you:

• Hold a relevant Master’s degree with a commercial focus
• Bring several years of experience in business development or related field (e.g. launch, start-up/scale-up), which has provided you with a sharp commercial toolbox related to e.g.; market analyses, customer engagement, pricing and product positioning
• Solid experience in successfully bringing new products/solutions from idea to market
• Hold profound analytical skills and proficiency in interpreting data, demonstrating an ability to build insights, storylines and value propositions from a complex set of information sources
• Work holistically, taking into consideration the larger portfolio and organization
• Are skilled in managing (larger) programs
• 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