Business Development Manager – Strategic Projects

DNV; Oslo; On-site; NOK 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

6 weeks annual vacation

International working environment

Well-equipped facilities

Company cabins & sports clubs

Job summary

DNV is seeking a Business Development Manager – Strategic Projects in Oslo to translate strategy into customer-value opportunities and lead cross-functional change across the maritime domain. You will work with shipowners, operators, yards, and regulators to shape scalable services and partnerships.

You will balance external stakeholder engagement with internal alignment, leveraging DNV’s independent credibility to drive long-term growth and market positioning in a complex, global environment.

Qualifications

• Strategic, commercial, or business development change experience.
• Maritime industry network and knowledge.
• Technical fluency with data and digital services.
• Ability to drive opportunities autonomously within a large matrix organization.
• Willingness to travel as required.

Responsibilities

• Translating strategy into phased, value-delivering plans for customers and internal teams.
• Collaborate with ship owners, operators, yards, OEMs, ports, and regulators.
• Align direction across regional organizations and local anchors.

Skills

Strategic experience

Maritime expertise

Technical expertise

Autonomy

Experience

Education

BSc or MSc in relevant subject area

Job description

About Us

We are the independent expert in assurance and risk management. Driven by our purpose, to safeguard life, property, and the environment, we empower our customers and their stakeholders with facts and reliable insights so that critical decisions can be made with confidence.

About Us

We are the independent expert in assurance and risk management. Driven by our purpose, to safeguard life, property, and the environment, we empower our customers and their stakeholders with facts and reliable insights so that critical decisions can be made with confidence. As a trusted voice for many of the world’s most successful organizations, we use our knowledge to advance safety and performance, set industry benchmarks, and inspire and invent solutions to tackle global transformations.

About Maritime

We help enhance the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of our customers in the global shipping industry, covering all vessel types and mobile offshore units. As a partner to industry, we offer services in testing, certification, training, and technical advisory through the energy value chain. That means we’re continually investing heavily into R&D for new services and solutions while proactively assessing what the industry needs today and tomorrow.

About The Role

The maritime industry is undergoing significant changes driven by decarbonization, safety enhancements, and cost reduction needs. Digitalization is key to these changes, requiring and enabling new levels of cooperation across the maritime supply chain involving ship owners, cargo owners, yards, OEMs, financing, ports and regulators including classification societies. DNV, with its global presence and strategic industry involvement, has a leading role in shaping and implementing these transformational changes. We aim to strengthen our position through industry foresight, collaboration, and state-of-the-art digital solutions.

As a Business Development Manager – Strategic Projects in our Strategic Business Development and Innovation unit, you will be at the heart of strategic growth opportunities that can become scalable products and services. Backed by DNV’s leading reputation, global network, and extensive resources, you will help turn industry insight into customer value and long-term impact.

Who You Are

The role calls for a business developer who can take the strategy, translate it into what it means for customers and for DNV, and lead the change through practical, phased steps that build the foundation while delivering value along the way. Your contribution will help address some of the maritime industry’s most important challenges. Externally, this means working with shipowners, operators and partners to understand their operations and shape services that create real value for them. Internally, it means connecting the relevant parts of the organization towards shared goals and direction. You will balance between external customer engagement and internal alignment, depending on where you can create the most value in each case.

You should excel at understanding customer needs and challenges, and leverage DNV’s strengths to help drive innovation into commercially viable and operationally realistic services for both DNV and our customers. You will earn and strengthen DNV’s reputation every day by representing our independent third‑party role with credibility and by building trust through insight, collaboration, and delivery. While sales focus on closing deals and driving immediate revenue, Business Development in DNV emphasizes identifying and developing strategic opportunities, partnerships, and market positioning leading to new and long‑term growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Translating the strategy into phased plans that builds the foundation while delivering value to customers along the way, rather than waiting for a finished platform.
• Collaborate with external stakeholders, including ship owners, charterers, cargo owners, yards, OEMs, ports, and regulators.
• Working closely with colleagues across the business area and the wider regional organizations to align direction and anchor locally.
• Representing DNV's third‑party role with credibility: understanding what independence and verification are worth to customers, and how they change as assurance becomes continuous and data driven.
• Enhance DNV’s market position in the maritime industry by building trusted relationships, identifying growth opportunities, and contributing to services that customers can rely on.
• Act as a catalyst for collaboration across teams, ensuring colleagues feel valued, heard, and connected to a shared direction.

What we offer

• Meaningful work you can feel proud of, contributing to safer, smarter, and more sustainable maritime solutions
• A total compensation package and flexible working scheme, with the opportunity to work from home and maintain a healthy work/life balance
• 6 weeks annual vacation
• Great colleagues who value teamwork, support, and making different perspectives heard
• Interesting and challenging customer dialogues, projects and services with a truly global scale
• International working environment. DNV has 15 000 employees around the world and is headquartered in Norway
• Opportunities to learn, grow, and develop your competencies and ambitions within DNV
• A strong company culture where expertise, collaboration, competence development, and recognition are central to how we work
• Possibility for future assignments abroad
• Well‑equipped exercise center, a large selection of company cabins, and over 30 different company sport clubs
• Free shuttle bus from Sandvika and Skøyen
• Plenty of opportunities to meet other young professionals through established networks and informal events by DNV CONNECT

DNV is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to gender, religion, race, national or ethnic origin, cultural background, social group, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age or political opinion. Diversity is fundamental to our culture and we invite you to be part of this diversity.

About You

What we are looking for

• Strategic Experience: A track record of driving strategic, commercial, or business development change with limited direction, not only contributing to it. This may come from strategy, business development, management or technical consultancy, and/or complex sales, with the confidence to take ownership and move opportunities forward.
• Maritime Expertise: Experience and network in the maritime industry including keen understanding or interest in DNV’s 3rd party role/classification (or a comparable setting), including how that role is changing.
• Technical expertise: Enough fluency with data and digital services to be a credible partner to the technology side, or a clear appetite to build it.
• Ability: The ability to hold a complex strategy in your head and act on it with autonomy, moving things forward in sensible steps without waiting to be told what to do next, in a large matrix organization. You are motivated by learning, growth, and turning ambiguity into progress.
• Experience: Min 5 years of relevant experience.
• Education: BSc or MSc in relevant subject area.
• Location: Oslo, Norway
• Travel: Willingness and ability to travel as required.

Application deadline is 30th August.

Security and compliance with statutory requirements in the countries in which we operate is essential for DNV. Background checks will be conducted on all final candidates as part of the offer process, in accordance with applicable country-specific laws and practices.