Lead Commercial Planner for Business Customers

Do you thrive with planning commercial initiatives, identifying new growth opportunities and implementing activities to drive real business impact? And do you have strong skills in in planning, prioritising and executing commercial activities in close cooperation with different stakeholders? If so, we have an exciting opportunity as our new Lead Commercial Planner!
Our Forward ’28 strategy in Business Customers is a growth strategy with a clear goal to capture market shares in the Nordic region. This involves acquiring new business customers and expanding our engagement with existing customers.

To enable us to deliver on our strategic goals, we are looking for two experienced Lead Commercial Planners to join our team. In the position you will play a key role in the execution of our Forward '28 strategy by ensuring seamless planning and execution of commercial activities to help us achieve our growth ambitions.

You will be part of our Strategy Execution and Commercial Excellence team within Business Customers, comprising 30 highly skilled colleagues in the Nordic region. The team includes three sub-teams: ‘Strategy Execution’, ‘Analytics & CRM’ and ‘Commercial Planning and Execution’. In this role, you will be part of our ‘Commercial

“We believe in collaboration and innovation. As a Commercial Planner, you'll team up with skilled colleagues to create the most impact for our business customers, advisors and product specialists. We utilize a test-and-learn approach, in which all good ideas are welcomed, and data serves as the foundation for prioritisation, evaluation, and ongoing optimisation."

Manage commercial activities – and fulfill our goals[KS1]

You will be owning the responsibility for planning projects, campaigns, programs and bringing activities to market. You are data-driven and have a solid commercial instinct for implementing and optimising activities to drive growth. It comes naturally to you to prioritise tasks against effort versus impact.

In this position, you will be instrumental in supporting our business unit in reaching its commercial targets by planning, prioritising, and optimising commercial activities, while ensuring transparency and ongoing optimisation of activities as well as identifying new commercial opportunities and ways of working to create the most impact:

• Driving and owning our commercial plan with a focus on identifying and prioritising various commercial activities to support our commercial targets
• Identifying and optimizing commercial activities and processes to increase performance and ensure synergies across markets and teams ie. for lead generation, sales material and digital touchpoints
• Collecting input and facilitating collaboration between multiple stakeholders (e.g. data analysts and advisors) to develop, plan, and implement commercial activities
• Evaluating and reporting on the success of our commercial activities for ie campaigns or pilots as well as ongoing activities
• Acting as a sparring partner for commercial activities for the business units

What skills do we want you to bring?
In this position you can come with various background experience like project management, consulting, marketing, growth, sales, CRM etc. The most important is that you are a structured project manager with a strong commercial mindset for creating results.

We expect that you have:

• 5 years of experience in planning, project management, or a related role.
• Experience in working with business-to-business (B2B) – preferably within the banking or financial service industry (however, not a must)
• Strong and effective project management and stakeholder management skills
• A strong commercial mindset and drive – optimally combined with relevant commercial excellence experience from positions within marketing, commercial, data, sales, CRM or product teams
• Ability to set a direction and prioritise commercial activities together with stakeholders across different levels
• A structured and solution-oriented approach for timely, high-quality deliveries.
• Ability to leverage data to improve and plan commercial activities
• Fluency in English, both spoken and written.

These positions will be place in Copenhagen (Denmark).

A great opportunity to advance your career
In this role, you will get the chance to influence the future of Danske Bank’s business customer services and a unique opportunity to build a broad network within the bank. To thrive, you should be a proactive planner with strong stakeholder management skills, capable of setting commercial direction, driving tasks to completion.

You should bring an optimistic approach and collaborative spirit to the team, ready to address issues with a solution-oriented mindset. In return, you will join a motivated and effective team, where we value collaboration and flexibility, allowing for remote work 1-2 days a week.

Sounds engaging and interesting? Then don’t hesitate to apply.
We encourage you to submit your CV as soon as possible, as we are processing applications and inviting candidates for interviews on an ongoing basis.

If you have any questions, please reach out to Kenneth Skovsted (Head of Commercial Planning & Execution) at kskov@danskebank.dk or Louise Hulvej, Head of Strategy Execution ＆ Commercial Excellence at lohu@danskebank.dk

About Us

Danske Bank is a Nordic bank with bridges to the world around us. For 150 years, we have supported people and businesses in releasing their potential. A career with us is an opportunity to join a community of 22,000 colleagues in a culture where we are committed to Teaming Up, Owning It and Being Open. Together, we are on a journey to transform Danske Bank into a better bank. For our customers, our employees and the societies around us.

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