Senior strategy analyst

Senior Strategy Analyst
Location
Aarhus, Denmark

Job Type & Start Time
Full-time, as soon as possible.

Deadline
20.09.2024. We will be screening candidates on an ongoing basis.

Are you passionate about data-driven strategy work? Are you motivated by converting numbers into valuable findings and recommendations for decision makers? And do you have a solid understanding of the energy markets or alternatively financial markets? If the answer is "yes, yes and yes", keep reading.

Here's what the job entails
In the role, you will be a primary driver of analyses that will impact strategic decision making. The analyses revolve around market insights, trend forecasting, competitor benchmarks and business performance.

Your areas of responsibility will include the following:

• Conduct market research for corporate-level strategy work and underpin strategic decision making with market intelligence.
• Build strategic bridges to our parent company Equinor and identify commercial opportunities for shared value-creation.
• Act as strategic advisor on various strategy topics, including must-win projects, commercial deep-dives and operating models.
• Understand and evaluate business performance with the Finance team.
• Strengthen the company's external positioning with commercial and analytical insights.

Meet the team
Our Strategy & Communications team is a key staff function at Danske Commodities, reporting directly to the CEO. The team plays a dual role, covering both corporate strategy and communications. On the strategy side, we handle development and execution of our company strategy, including commercial advisory, management support and reporting to the Board of Directors. We are also responsible for our efforts on driving sustainability.

This is a high-impact role with a unique opportunity to contribute to the development and execution of the corporate strategy for a global energy company.

Your qualifications
As you will play an important role in our corporate strategy work, we imagine that you are a driven professional, who's motivated by engaging with stakeholders across corporate levels and different areas of expertise. We're also looking for someone who's self-propelled and has the skill set to move things forward, sometimes in a team setting and sometimes independently.

We imagine that you:

• Hold a relevant master's degree in Finance, Economics, Business or similar.
• Have 3-5 years of experience from a similar position, alternatively from management consulting or the financial sector.
• Have great communication skills as we work with many different internal and external stakeholders.
• Have industry experience, e.g. from energy trading or financial markets.

We'll take good care of you
At Danske Commodities, we take great care of our people. Joining us means you'll get a lot of great perks – including social events, cultural experiences, tasty food and benefits to better your health, your life and your future.

Here are some of the benefits we offer our employees:

• Flexible working hours
  including the opportunity to work part-time as well as the option to work from home up to two days per week.
• Vast development opportunities
  with the help of your own individual development plan, access to our DC University with 50+ courses as well as remote courses through Harvard Learning.
• Global career prospects
  as part of the Equinor group with +20,000 colleagues across the world.
• 10% paid pension
  as well as a beneficial health care and insurance package.
• Great parental leave conditions from day one
  including 26 weeks of paid maternity leave and 16 weeks of paid paternity/co-parent leave.
• Unlimited paid children's sick days
  no limit on paid absence days in relation to child sickness.
• Extra days off
  five, to be exact, as well as a Yay Day (an additional day off dedicated to 'me time') every year – adding to the standard five weeks off each year.
• Senior days
  if you're over 55 years old.
• Bonus scheme
• Share savings
  meaning you have the opportunity to participate in our parent company Equinor's attractive share savings programme.
• Paid at home internet and equipment
  including a mobile phone with paid subscription and IT equipment for when working from home.
• 100+ yearly social and professional events
  including DC Sports and DC Talks events, gatherings in our book club, bicycle club, student network, wine club, CS:GO team and more.
• Various free tickets
  to family-friendly and cultural attractions.
• Discounts
  at hotels, restaurants, sports clubs and more.
• Organic food
  including a light breakfast, lunch buffet and snacks throughout the day.
• An office in the heart of Aarhus
  right next to the central train station.

Recruitment process and relocation
You can read more about our recruitment process here. Please note that if you are an international candidate, we will reimburse travel expenses in connection with potential interviews and support you with the relocation process.

What we're about
We're a tech-driven energy trading company present in 42 markets across five continents. Our +600 people are driven by a need to constantly better things. If you are too, we could very well be the right place for you. You'll join a collective of thinkers and doers. Aspiring chefs, runners, parents, beekeepers, gamers – the list goes on. We're highly specialised experts within our fields. But it's actually our diversity of ideas we're most proud of, which is why we continuously work on strengthening an inclusive culture where diverse teams thrive.

Our organisation is flat with an open-door policy. We expect you to care. About your work. About your own and your colleagues' collective successes. And about the difference we make at Danske Commodities. Together with our parent company Equinor, we have the vision and strength to accelerate the energy transition and make an impact. Like no other.