About the role
At FLS, we have simplified our business and strengthened our profitability in recent years. We are now shifting our focus to accelerating profitable growth. To steer this journey, we are establishing a Corporate Growth Office that leads our strategic growth and profitability initiatives in close cooperation with our Business Lines, Group Functions and other stakeholders.
As Director, Corporate Growth Office and Strategy, you will build and run the engine that turns our strategic ambitions into owned, tracked and delivered results. You will own the portfolio management, governance and operating rhythm of the Corporate Growth Office. This spans the monthly Growth Office reviews in our Executive Leadership Team and in each Business Line performance review. You will also connect the initiative portfolio to our corporate strategy process. As deputy to the Head of Corporate Growth Office, you will be a trusted sparring partner to Business Line Presidents, Finance and initiative owners.
Reporting to the Head of Corporate Growth Office, you will join a small, high-calibre team at our headquarters in Copenhagen. Around 80% of the role is dedicated to running the Corporate Growth Office and around 20% to corporate strategy work. The Growth Office enables, challenges and connects: our Business Lines own the delivery of their initiatives, and you will make sure it happens with pace, rigour and transparency.
What you gain
This is a rare opportunity to build a Growth Office from the ground up at a pivotal moment for FLS, and to shape how a global industrial company steers its growth. You will gain:
Close collaboration with our CEO, the Executive Leadership Team and Business Line Presidents and Business Line management teams.
An enterprise-wide view of how FLS creates value across Business Lines, Group Functions, sales areas and our mergers and acquisitions (M&A) agenda.
Visible impact, as your work shows directly in our results and in how we work together as one FLS.
A broad platform for your professional development, combining growth office leadership with corporate strategy.
The chance to help the mining industry move towards a more sustainable future.
You will play a key role in
Setting up and running the Corporate Growth Office
Designing and embedding the Growth Office operating model with the Head of Corporate Growth Office, including governance forums, roles and decision rights, the stage-gate process, value rules and reporting standards.
Turning our corporate management model into a working operating rhythm, including the monthly Growth Office review in the Executive Leadership Team and the Growth Office segment of each monthly Business Line performance review.
Building an in-house playbook and capability, so that FLS eventually runs its growth agenda with its own people, tools and routines.
Managing the growth portfolio
Owning one Group-wide view of growth workstreams and initiatives, with clear owners, milestones, value targets, risks and interdependencies.
Running the stage-gate process from idea to realised value, including gate-readiness checks and rigour tests before key decisions.
Keeping the pipeline healthy through quarterly re-prioritisation and backfilling of initiatives, and spotting off-track initiatives early.
Executive governance and reporting
Preparing decision-ready material for the Executive Leadership Team and Business Line leadership on value delivered against plan, value at risk, stage-gate decisions and blockers.
Maintaining decision and action logs, driving follow-up and escalating issues that need executive attention.
Contributing to Executive Leadership Team and Board updates and to the messages cascaded to the wider organisation.
Deputising for the Head of Corporate Growth Office in executive forums.
Value tracking with Finance
Defining the baselines, impact categories and validation rules that make reported value credible, together with Group and Business Line Finance.
Reconciling initiative…