As a Lead Innovation Commercial Manager you’ll be part of a small, senior Innovation “SWAT team” supporting innovation leaders and project teams across Ørsted. You’ll work closely with the Head of Operations & Enablement to accelerate initiatives through our innovation funnel, strengthen business cases, unblock challenges, and help teams turn promising concepts into commercially viable solutions. 

You’ll act as a trainer, problem‑solver and hands‑on partner, stepping into projects when teams need support with market validation, commercial logic, stakeholder alignment, or go‑to‑market thinking. This is not an advisory role alone, you’ll work side by side with innovation leaders to build momentum, increase project velocity, and raise the strategic impact of our innovation efforts. 

You’ll play an important role in:

• accelerate innovation projects by helping teams validate solutions early, strengthen business cases, and navigate commercial and stakeholder challenges
• act as an entrepreneur‑in‑residence, bringing venture, accelerator, or scale‑up experience into Ørsted’s project teams
• coach innovation leaders on commercial models, customer logic, go‑to‑market strategies, and investment readiness, and train colleagues to build stronger business cases
• strengthen our innovation pipeline by identifying promising ideas and supporting teams in maturing them into well‑structured opportunities
• support strategic discussions by collaborating with the Senior Portfolio Manager on insights, challenges, and opportunities emerging from the innovation portfolio
• create clarity and momentum by helping teams frame opportunities, align stakeholders, and prepare for gate reviews or commercial assessments.

To succeed in the role, you:

• bring strong innovation experience, ideally from venture building, accelerator programmes, startups, corporate innovation, or commercialising new products or services
• thrive in hands‑on problem‑solving, stepping into complex situations and helping teams build clarity, confidence, and commercial logic
• have sharp commercial instincts and can assess market potential, scalability, and viable business models
• are experienced in navigating large, technical organisations and partnering effectively with engineers, analysts, designers, and strategists
• demonstrate excellent communication skills, simplifying complex topics, facilitating discussions, and crafting clear, compelling narratives
• thrive in a collaborative, entrepreneurial team where pace is high, ambition is strong, and impact is visible
• bring experience working with corporate innovation programmes will be considered an asset.

Maybe you’ve read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don’t quite match all the points. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply.

Shape the future with us
Send your application to us as soon as possible. We’ll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis and reserve the right to take down the advert when we’ve found the right candidate.

As an applicant or employee, you may request reasonable work and position accommodation or adjustments via accommodation@orsted.com.

Please note that for your application to be taken into consideration, you must submit your application via our online career pages and answer the screening questions relevant for your country. We don't take applications or inquiries from external recruiters or agencies into account for this position.