Senior Business Developer, Radical Innovation & New Business Development
VELUX
Meet your future team
You will join the Radical Innovation and New Business Development team, a small, highly skilled and entrepreneurial unit working at the frontier of future growth for the VELUX Group. The team operates as a venture-building environment, combining strategic rigour with hands-on execution to explore, validate and launch new business opportunities beyond the core portfolio.
The team works closely with senior leadership, Sales, R&D, Digital, Finance and external partners. Collaboration is characterised by high trust, strong ownership and a bias towards action and learning. As a Senior Business Developer, you will play a central role in shaping and progressing key innovation projects. Over time, you may step into a Venture Lead role as opportunities mature towards launch and scale.
What We Offer
In this role, you will take on significant responsibility, gain exposure to senior stakeholders and have the opportunity to influence the long-term growth agenda of the VELUX Group. You will work on strategically important innovation projects where commercial validation, speed and learning are critical.
More specifically, your tasks will be to:
- Lead key innovation projects end-to-end, taking ownership of problem framing, work planning, stakeholder alignment and delivery of tangible commercial outputs.
- Conduct rigorous market and competitive analyses using a hypothesis-driven approach to identify key uncertainties, quickly build a robust fact base and shape clear strategic recommendations.
- Develop, stress-test and validate business cases, including market sizing, value pool logic, unit economics, pricing hypotheses and scenario-based financial modelling to support investment decisions.
- Design and drive commercial validation activities, including pilot design, customer testing and partner discussions, ensuring projects progress through evidence-based decisions and clearly defined learning milestones.
- Develop and lead go-to-market strategies for selected opportunities, driving pilots, external partnerships and product launches in close collaboration with Sales and key stakeholders.
- Provide indirect leadership across cross-functional teams and external partners, ensuring clear ownership, high-quality outputs and strong momentum towards commercial outcomes.
- Communicate clearly and confidently with senior stakeholders through structured, executive-ready presentations, including recommendations, trade-offs and clear decision asks.
You bring a strong combination of strategic thinking, analytical depth and execution capability, together with the ability to navigate uncertainty and influence senior stakeholders.
Moreover, we expect that you:
- Hold a Master’s degree in Business, Economics or a related field.
- Have experience from a management consulting firm or an equivalent in-house strategy, venture building or corporate development role, with clear delivery expectations and a well-developed consulting-style toolkit.
- Have a proven track record of moving initiatives from ambiguous early stages to tangible commercial outcomes, such as pilots, partnerships, launch decisions or measurable pipeline or revenue.
- Demonstrate strong structured problem-solving capabilities, including hypothesis-driven work, MECE structuring, issue trees and clear synthesis, supported by strong analytical skills and data interpretation.
- Possess commercial acumen, including experience with market sizing, competitive strategy, pricing and value capture, unit economics and business case development.
- Are able to manage stakeholders effectively and lead cross-functional teams through influence rather than formal authority.
Learn more about the VELUX Group online at www.velux.com, where you can read more about working at the company and what to expect of the recruitment process.
We look forward to receiving your application and CV as soon as possible. We are conducting interviews on an ongoing basis until the right match has been found.
All inquiries will be treated confidentially.
About VELUX
In the VELUX Group, we offer a world of opportunities and the chance to create a bright future. From the forefront of the roof window category, solutions are developed that enable people who live, work and play under the roof to transform their spaces and enjoy a healthier everyday life with more daylight and fresh air.
The VELUX Group is an international, family-owned business with strong financial roots. Each year, real impact is created by reinvesting in society, employees and the planet through foundations. With 20 production companies in 12 countries and sales companies in 37 countries, products are widely available across the world. The company employs around 12,000 people and is headquartered in Denmark. Courage and mutual respect define daily actions and the way contributions are made to the world.
Equal Opportunity Employer
At VELUX Residential, a diverse workplace is fostered where everyone can thrive, develop and perform at their best, and where people feel welcome, respected and valued. Equal opportunities are provided for all, whether applying for a role or already part of VELUX Residential. Recruitment, hiring, training and promotion are based on skills and potential, without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, age, neurodiversity, disability, protected veteran status, national origin, sexual orientation or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
Diversity is valued, and employment decisions are made fairly and inclusively, focusing only on qualifications and the ability to contribute to shared success.