Senior Digital Innovation Specialist

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 

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.