Innovation Research Specialist - Radical Innovation and New Business

Are you experienced in early stage research, identifying untapped pockets of opportunities based on insights, macro trends, and customer needs? Would you like to join a team that focus on discovering, incubating and accelerating business opportunities focusing on radical innovation?

Then you might be exactly the Innovation Research Specialist we are looking for!

This is your unique chance to join our Radical Innovation and New Business Development team in “Buildings of the Future” – a team that has been established to discover, incubate and accelerate business opportunities leveraging ecosystem insights, radical innovation, partnerships and start-up engagement.

The purpose of the “Buildings of the Future” is to lead the way towards sustainable and healthy buildings, while ensuring that VELUX solutions are an increasingly desired part of future building designs. “Buildings of the Future” serves as an innovation- and business development unit to our Products & Innovation organization with both highly specialized competencies within indoor climate, daylight, energy and sustainability, as well as more generic areas such as business and strategy development, partnerships and start-up engagement. Finally, “Buildings of the Future” is playing a key role in pioneering climate and nature action, and leads the strategic efforts in showing the industry how to build sustainably.

About the job

As our new Innovation Research Specialist you will join our Radical Innovation and New Business Development team. Your role is pivotal in driving the early stages of our innovation process, from initial scouting to concept development and maturation. You will leverage AI tools and desktop research methods to gather critical market insights, identify new customer target groups, compile quantitative as well as qualitative data to test and validate new product offerings and support innovation projects.

More specifically, your responsibility will include:

• Research and Insight Collection: Conduct in-depth market research and insight collection for the early innovation process, encompassing activities from scouting to concept development and maturation.
• Trend and Data Analysis: Analyse collected insights and macro trends to identify new opportunities and/or validate key project hypothesis. Translate insights, customer needs, and trends into clear value propositions and product concepts that can be tested with customers.
• Support Development Projects: Assist teams throughout the development process, from scouting to incubation. Set up data collection goals, design questionnaires, recruit participants, conduct research, and collect valuable learnings.
• Utilize Advanced Tools: Employ AI tools and desktop research to gather comprehensive market insights, identify new customer target groups, and compile quantitative data to build robust cases for new projects.

You will be based at our innovation hub, LKR Innovation House, in Østbirk, or at our headquarter in Hørsholm – depending on where you reside.

About you

As you will be working very early stage in the innovation funnel looking at market trends and spotting opportunity spaces, it is key that you hold strong analytical skills and an ability to interpret data, macro trends and future forecasts. You are experienced in conducting research and desk search, collecting information and summarizing key findings and conclusions in a structured way. Additionally, utilising your advanced communication and writing skills, you clearly articulate future scenarios and research findings.

Naturally curious, you embrace the unknown and are open to exploring new methods, with innovative thinking being one of your key skills. Your eagerness to learn and drive progress motivates you to take initiative in your work, and you are dedicated to achieving your goals and taking ownership of your deliverables.

Additionally, you thrive in collaborative environments and possess a team-oriented mindset. Your solid stakeholder management skills allow you to work and communicate effectively across all organizational levels and with a diverse group of stakeholders.

Moreover, you:

• Bring several years of experience in innovation-focused research roles, preferably within a radical innovation context
• Are proficient in using AI tools and desktop research tools for market analysis and data collection
• Hold a relevant Master’s degree – could be business focused, anthropologically focused or equivalent
• Communicate in English at a professional level – verbally and in writing

Your opportunities

Headquartered in Hørsholm north of Copenhagen, The VELUX Group is the world leader in roof windows and skylights. We are family and foundation owned with a long history of solid results.

The VELUX Group offers exciting challenges, great opportunities to shape your own development and a chance to work with skilled and motivated colleagues where commitment and mutual respect are among the core values. In this role, you will have the opportunity to really impact the long-term perspective for VELUX as a business.

We are a company where you can have fulfilling and interesting work and still have balance in your life and time for your interests outside of work. We believe in empowering people, and we support this by providing a high degree of freedom and investing in people who have the will and the ability to make a difference.

Application and contact

Read more about the VELUX Group at www.velux.com, where you can also learn more about working at our company and what to expect in our recruitment process.

We look forward to receiving your application and CV no later than 4th May 2025. We will review candidates and conduct interviews on an ongoing basis. All enquiries 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 sustainable indoor living industry, we enable those who live, work and play under the roof transform their 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 are able to create real impact by reinvesting in society, our employees and planet through our foundations.
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

VELUX Residential is fully committed to the concept and practice of equal opportunity in all aspects of employment. To further our goal of equal employment opportunity for all employees and prospective employees, it is the policy of VELUX Residential to recruit, hire, train, and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, protected veteran status, national origin, sexual orientation, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. All employment decisions shall be consistent with the principle of equal employment opportunity and only job-related qualifications will be required.

Location: Ryvej 37 Østbirk

Additional location:

• Ådalsvej 99 Hørsholm