Job Description

As our new Vertical Integration and Footprint Specialist, you will join our global Team within the O&S organization, which also encompasses Portfolio Management Office, CAPEX Portfolio Management, and Operations Analytics.

O&S Strategy supports VELUX’s global value chain consisting of approximately 8.000 employees in Production Companies, Logistics or QHSE&E. We are responsible for driving the organization’s growth and profitability by identifying opportunities that enhance performance, efficiency, and market positioning. It is also crucial to build relationships and drive projects in collaboration with other Functions (e.g., Finance and Commercial) as well as other O&S Global departments (e.g., Procurement, Technical Services or Supply Engineering & Product Introduction).

The team’s core purpose is to guide and lead the transformation of O&S ensuring alignment with long-term objectives. Collaborate across functions to ensure robust supply chain performance and cost efficiency. The main responsibilities within the team are to develop and execute strategies related to business continuity methodology and contributing to enterprise risk management, vertical integration enhancing operational transparency, capacity planning, and footprint optimization.

As our new Vertical Integration & Footprint Specialist, you will support O&S Management and cross-functional teams to identify, analyze and solve complex business challenges and opportunities. You will specifically contribute to the success of O&S by supporting the facilitation of strategy development and deployment, guiding and collaborating with the functional areas to deliver on the strategy, monitoring and tracking the overall delivery of the strategy.

In this role, your core tasks will be:

• Develop and deploy business continuity and risk management frameworks, collaborate with Sites on risk mapping updates and improvements
• Support capacity management initiatives, including utilization analysis, equipment lifecycle planning, and dashboard development (e.g., OEE, asset aging)
• Co-develop the global strategy and methodologies for footprint network
• Foster a culture of strategic thinking, data-driven decision-making, and continuous improvement
• Build strong cross-functional and cross-geographical relationships
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels, from shop floor to executive leadership
• Define priorities, track key metrics, highlight roadblocks and network changes for periodic Management reviews

Since this is a role covering global supply projects and the team is international, you should expect up to 20 days of international travel per year to other VELUX locations.

In this role, we will come to know you as:

• A capable partner with a strategic mindset and strong business understanding, enabling you to engage in sparring and support of senior leaders.
• A structured Professional with excellent problem-solving skills and a robust analytical toolbox, which you use to guide and facilitate effective decision-making processes.
• A strong communicator with a natural ability to break down complex topics into well-rounded storylines, ensuring buy-in from top management, functional teams, and factory teams.
• An appreciated team member in our O&S Strategy team, as well as an engaged collaborator in cross-functional teams, contributing to strategy deployment and execution of strategic projects.

An exceptional stakeholder manager who can build and maintain strong relationships across the organization, ensuring needs and expectations are met while aligning with the O&S strategic direction.

In this role, we expect an ideal candidate to bring:

• Some experience either from management consulting, an in-house strategy team in a larger company, or as a project manager delivering strategic transformation projects.
• Experience in a global production and supply chain environment would be an advantage.
• A well-developed toolbox for problem-solving, disaggregation of complex tasks into clear roadmaps, stakeholder management, and strategy communication.
• A Master’s degree in a relevant field.
• A willingness to learn and take more responsibility to own focus areas with time
• A holistic business perspective with an innovative, challenge-the-status-quo mindset
• Proficiency in speaking and writing English at a professional level.

Analytical skills able to handle complex data structures and generate strategic outputs.

Ready to apply? 

Learn more about the VELUX Group online at www.velux.comwhere you can read more about working at our company and what to expectofour recruitment process. 

We look forward to receiving your application and CV as soon as possible. We are conducting interviews on an ongoing basis until we have the right match. 

All inquiries will be treated confidentially. 

About VELUX 

In the VELUX Group, we offer you a world of opportunities and the chance to create a bright future. From the forefront of the roof window category, we enable those who live,workand play under the rooftransformtheir spaces and live a healthier everyday life with more daylight and fresh air.

The VELUX Group is an international, family-owned business with strong financial roots and each year we can create real impact by reinvesting in society, our employees and planet through our foundations. With 20 production companies in 12 countries and sales companies in 37 countries, our products are widely available. We employ around 12,000 people, and our company is headquartered in Denmark. Alongside the rest of our values, “courage” and “mutual respect” define our actions every day and how we wish to contribute to the world.

Equal Opportunity Employer 

At VELUX Residential, we believe in fostering a diverse workplace for everyone to thrive, develop, and perform at their best, and where you feel welcome, respected, and valued. We are committed toproviding equal opportunities for all- whether you are applying for a role or already a part of VELUX Residential. That means we recruit, hire, train, and promote people based on their skills and potential without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, neurodiversity, disability, protected veteran status, national origin, sexualorientationor any other basis prohibited by applicable law.  

 We value diversity and strive to ensure that our employment decisions are fair and inclusive, focusing only on what truly matters: your qualifications and how you can contribute to our shared mission and success.