Senior Risk and Insurance Specialist

Imagine a future where your insurance expertise helps protect a global renewable energy business

Join us in this role where you’ll manage key insurance activities across the organisation, respond to changing risk exposures, and help ensure appropriate coverage in line with our insurance policy. You’ll coordinate day-to-day delivery, renewals, tenders, and projects while working closely with colleagues, insurers, and brokers.

 

Welcome to Group Risk:

You’ll be part of Insurance where you, together with your colleagues, will support business units, companies, and regions and manage insurance for the organisation’s global risks. The team consists of seven specialists, primarily based in Gentofte, with two colleagues in London. As a team, we share expertise, take responsibility, and help each other deliver high-quality solutions.

 

You’ll play an important role in:

  • managing local Danish insurance arrangements, including motor, workers’ compensation, and accident insurance
  • coordinating global employee-related insurance programmes for international assignments and business travel
  • handling daily enquiries, annual renewals, and relevant tender activities with internal and external stakeholders
  • supporting insurance activities for power generation, pipeline, and storage operations, including communication with the business
  • coordinating insurance-related technology tasks and contributing to the implementation and continuous improvement of the insurance management system
  • leading or contributing to projects in the Insurance team, preparing documents and presentations, and maintaining effective administrative controls.

 

To succeed in the role, you:

  • have an experience with corporate insurance, insurance broking, or a related risk and insurance role
  • understand employee-related insurance programmes and have experience with, or a strong interest in, property insurance
  • can manage renewals, tenders, enquiries, documentation, and multiple stakeholders with attention to quality and detail
  • communicate clearly and confidently in written and spoken English in an international working environment
  • feel comfortable using Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, and can work with business systems such as SAP and SharePoint
  • work independently, collaborate openly, take initiative, and stay effective in a changing environment.

 

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.

 

Position salary range:
For this position, the expected base pay range is kr45,000.00- kr65,000.00 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:
For this position, employees who meet eligibility requirements have access to: 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 well-being programmes; a multimedia package (mobile phone, PC, and internet); staff club membership with sport and cultural activities; and access to the company canteen (monthly lunch scheme or daily tickets).

 

Pre-employment background check:
This position requires a background check as part of the hiring process and the offer is dependent on the outcome of this check. You will receive more information during the recruitment process. Background checks are conducted by an external provider in accordance with local legal requirements.

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Join a global leader in renewable energy

Ørsted is a global leader in offshore wind and is one of the largest renewable energy companies in the world. With us, you’ll play your part in creating a world that runs entirely on green energy. As a leading green energy company, we leverage the curiosity and passion of our people to innovate and develop new technologies or bring existing technologies to scale, collaborating with governments, suppliers, and our industry partners to make renewable energy solutions a reality. At Ørsted, we work together with openness and respect and seek fresh perspectives to solve any task at hand: big or small. 

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

19 October 2026

Location

Gentofte, DK

Area of work

Finance and controlling

Employment type

Permanent

Work hours

Full-time

Workplace

Hybrid (office and home-working)

Some of our benefits include