Senior Digital Innovation Specialist

Ørsted; Ørsted; Hybrid; DKK 55,000 - 82,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer-paid pension

Insurance coverage (health, life, etc)

Five weeks vacation + 10 days off

Holiday allowance 3%

Wellbeing programme access

Company canteen access

Multimedia package (phone, laptop)

Job summary

Ørsted is seeking a leader to drive AI and digital innovation within the Strategy, Innovation & Transformation function. You will shape the strategic direction, surface high-value opportunities, and partner with Corporate Strategy and Digital Technology to translate ideas into business impact.

In this role you will lead structured problem-solving with senior stakeholders, mentor junior colleagues, and help elevate AI literacy across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Holistic problem-solving mindset using service design, systems thinking or process design.
• Strong drive to deliver high-quality work and a self-starting attitude.
• Good understanding of recent AI developments and how to apply them at scale.
• Experience scoping and prioritising AI or digital opportunities with measurable value.

Responsibilities

• Identify and drive high-value digital innovation initiatives across the organisation.
• Shape the strategic direction of Digital and AI Innovation in partnership with Corporate Strategy and IT.
• Lead structured problem-solving with senior stakeholders to translate challenges into opportunities and business cases.
• Provide insights on mid- to long-horizon digital innovations to strengthen competitiveness.
• Mentor or manage workload of junior team-members and support AI literacy across the organisation.

Skills

Digital transformation

AI strategy

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Consulting toolkit

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Imagine a future where you lead the way in harnessing the power of AI and digital innovation to create a world that runs entirely on green energy

Join us in this role where you’ll work at the intersection of digital technologies, strategy, and innovation to contribute to shaping our strategic direction in the years to come. You will be part of advancing Artificial Intelligence (AI) efforts and other Digital technologies at Ørsted. Helping to surface new, innovative, and transformative opportunities/use cases that can step change our competitiveness. A position in the Digital Innovation Catalyst team not only offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the digital future of a leading sustainability company, but also provides significant opportunities for personal growth in problem solving, project management, and digital innovation/AI expertise.

Welcome to Strategy, Innovation and Transformation

You’ll be part of the broader Strategy, Innovation & Transformation function, which defines the company’s strategic direction and drives toward it. As part of the Digital Innovation Catalyst team, you’ll help turn Ørsted’s most important digital and AI opportunities into tangible business impact, working with leaders across the organisation to shape the future of green energy. This role involves staying at the forefront of digital technology trends, including AI, and requires you to understand and integrate perspectives from various business areas and disciplines to create tangible business value. We are a diverse and social team that enjoys collaboration and knowledge sharing, while putting a strong focus on delivering results and providing continuous development opportunities.

You’ll play an important role in:

• Identifying and driving complex, high-value digital innovation initiatives across the organisation
• Driving the strategic direction of Digital and AI Innovation across the company, in close partnership with the Corporate Strategy team and the Digital Technology (IT) function
• Lead structured problem-solving with senior stakeholders across the organisation to identify, scope, and shape high-value AI and digital opportunities, translating ambiguous business challenges into clear opportunity areas and business cases
• Providing insights on mid- to long-horizon digital innovations to step change our competitiveness, including novel digital business models and emerging digital technologies
• Collaborating closely with our agile organisation, IT teams, and technical colleagues in Digital Innovation to enable prioritisation of use cases and deliver priority initiatives
• Where relevant, mentoring or managing the workload of more junior team-members
• Supporting activities that enable the organisation to maintain and evolve employee AI literacy

To succeed in the role, you:

• Bring a robust consulting toolkit, ideally gained from management consulting, corporate strategy or digital innovation teams working with large corporate or scale-up environments
• Have a holistic problem-solving mindset when tackling challenges, utilising service-design approaches, systems thinking, process design or other techniques to develop effective outcomes which are underpinned by AI & Digital technologies
• Have a strong drive to deliver high-quality work, a willingness to learn, and a self-starting attitude
• Have a firm grasp of recent developments in the AI space and a curiosity to continue learning, including but not limited to Agentic models, Implementing AI at scale within enterprises, AI compliance etc.
• Have hands‑on experience with scoping and prioritising digital or innovation opportunities, ideally with AI, including quantifying value potential and feasibility
• Are comfortable using quantitative and qualitative analysis to structure complex problems, test hypotheses, size opportunities, and communicate crisp, insight‑led recommendations to senior stakeholders
• Have a collaborative and diverse mindset and can create and sustain trust‑based relationships with your stakeholders

As an applicant or employee, you may request reasonable work and position accommodation or adjustments via [e-mail].

Position salary range:

For this position, the expected base pay range is kr54,880.00- kr82,320.00 for the advertised location. The offered base salary will be determined within this range based on relevant skills, experience, and expected role fulfilment within the stated pay range to ensure a fair and competitive offer. Where applicable, you may also be eligible for variable payment and a comprehensive benefits package.

Our benefits package:

• employer‑paid pension (11% contribution)
• full insurance coverage (accident, life, critical illness, and health insurance)
• five weeks of paid holiday plus 10 additional paid days off per holiday year
• a 3% holiday allowance
• access to Ørsted Life & Fitness Vitality including fitness classes, physiotherapy, massage, and wellbeing programmes
• a multimedia package (mobile phone, PC, internet)
• staff club membership with sport and cultural activities
• access to the company canteen (monthly lunch scheme or daily tickets)

Pre‑employment background check:

Certain positions may require a background check as part of the hiring process. If applicable, you will be informed during the recruitment process. Background checks are conducted by an external provider in accordance with local legal requirements.

About Ørsted

• We provide countries, companies, and communities with sustainable, reliable, and cost‑competitive energy solutions, including offshore and onshore wind, solar PV, and energy storage.
• Our vision is to create a world that runs entirely on green energy.
• We built the world’s first offshore wind farm, Vindeby in Denmark, in 1991, and completed the world’s largest, Hornsea 2 in the UK, in 2022.
• We were founded in Denmark in 2006 and now have approximately 8,000 employees, working in 15 countries and counting.

An inclusive team

At Ørsted, we strive to be an inclusive workplace where you’re respected for who you are, valued for the unique perspectives you bring, and rewarded fairly for what you achieve. We want all employees to have the same opportunities for impact and growth, no matter their age, race, ethnicity, place of birth, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.

Application deadline

3 September 2026

Location

Gentofte, DK

Area of work

Strategy and business development

Employment type

Permanent

Work hours

Full‑time

Workplace

Hybrid (office and home‑working)