Strategy Officer

Do you want to join a global leader in renewable energy infrastructure investments? To work at the intersection between strategy, private equity, and the green transition? And to work in a highly driven and fun team? Then Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners’ Strategy Team in Copenhagen is the place for you.

About CIP – Building Value that Matters

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) is the world’s largest dedicated fund manager within greenfield renewable energy investments, having raised EUR +28bn across 12 funds and +160 institutional investors since the firm was established in 2012. Today, CIP employs ~500 people across 10+ offices globally, and practices a diversified investment focus, covering offshore and onshore wind, solar, power-to-x, advanced bioenergy, transmission, distribution and storage - globally, and across equity as well as debt strategies.

By 2030, CIP will have further accelerated its role in the global energy transition with a target to surpass EUR 100bn in funds raised. This will enable CIP to address ~1% of the world’s required GHG reduction by 2030 to be on track for Net-Zero in 2050 – and hence address the climate emergency at a scale that truly matters. For more information, visit www.cip.com.

About the team

The Strategy department reports directly into one of the original founders of CIP, Senior Partner, Christina Grumstrup Sørensen. Established a couple of years ago, the department has gained momentum with increasing responsibilities, and hence CIP is now looking to further grow the team.

Today, the team consists of a VP of Strategy, 4 Strategy Officers and an Analyst. Hence, a potential candidate would become part of a 7-person team. The Strategy Team is highly driven and international, with backgrounds from management consulting, private equity, venture capital and renewables. Becoming part of the Strategy Team means joining an ambitious and tight-knit team with a genuinely fun, positive, and social work environment.

In close collaboration with CIP’s global management, the Strategy Team is responsible for formulating and orchestrating the execution CIP’s Corporate Strategy, and the department’s focus is based on a continuous and dynamic evaluation of the most critical strategy projects to realize CIP’s 2030 EUR +100bn ambition. The Strategy unit works on these projects either in teams (i.e. in subsets of the Strategy Team) or individually, but most-often together with stakeholders from across the CIP organization and often accompanied by external advisors.

Main objectives

• Coordinate the development of CIP’s Corporate Strategy, together with CIP Management and Board
• Own select strategic projects (often subsets of the corporate strategy process), incl. e.g. evaluating; new product/investment avenues to pursue, positioning towards investors and competitors, or how to build a scalable company
• Support on strategic fundraising topics, e.g. evaluating CIP’s fundraising roadmap towards 2030, or how to tap into growth from non-institutional investor segment
• Deliver select Chief of Staff / Management support to CIP’s Founders and Management Team (e.g. owning and developing material for select Board and Management meetings and designing workshops/offsites with the Partner group)

Working directly with the senior management team, the Strategy department sits at the heart of CIP, and offers a unique opportunity to meaningfully influence the company’s development and gain significant leadership exposure. Combined, this will provide a solid stepping-stone to a range of future career paths across the organization.

Key responsibilities will consist of

• Scope and lead / project coordinate major strategic projects and initiatives
• Develop corporate strategy and the end-to-end strategic planning process
• Ptovide Chief of Staff / Management Support for CIP top leadership
• Plan and execute quantitative and qualitative analyses
• Contribute to a positive, efficient, supportive and fun team environment

You

You have solid experience analyzing strategic issues, e.g., from 3-4 years in a leading management consultancy, an in-house strategy team or similar complex and international environment. Moreover, experience within the private equity industry or energy infrastructure would be considered a strong plus.

Additionally, you are:

• Skilled in problem solving and have advanced analytical skills, including the ability to think creatively and develop ‘out of the box’ frameworks / solutions
• Able to create and deliver influential communication with clarity, confidence and enthusiasm, including to key executives and senior leadership
• Able to handle / coordinate key internal stakeholders
• Able to convert strategic analyses into executable recommendations
• Proactive and able to actively seek input and take initiative without hesitation
• Able to work well both individually and in a team environment
• Positive with an ability to inspire the people around you

Are you interested?

To apply for the position, please upload your CV as soon as possible as interviews will be held on an ongoing basis as applications are received. If you have any questions please reach out to the recruitment team at recruitment@cip.dk. We do not include CV's and Cover Letters sent by email.

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