Sales & Technology Lead FACTS

Overview

FlexGrid-HV is DNV's specialized global venture focused on providing strategic advisory, engineering and assurance services in High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) and Flexible Alternating Current Transmission Systems (FACTS). These technologies are pivotal for integrating renewable energy, enhancing grid stability, and ensuring efficient long-distance power transmission, essential for achieving a sustainable energy future.

You will join our innovative FlexGrid-HV venture, dedicated to scaling up HVDC and FACTS technologies globally. We work with diverse clients—utilities, system operators, developers, investors, government agencies, EPCs, and OEMs—offering services that range from Technical Advisory and Owner’s Engineering to Independent Engineering and Strategic advisory. Your leadership and expertise will directly contribute to shaping the future of high-voltage electricity transmission.

What we offer

As our new joiner to our FlexGrid venture, you will collaborate with skilled, passionate colleagues in a dynamic, international setting. Each day brings exciting challenges and opportunities to work with diverse topics, projects and clients. You will have flexibility to shape your role and make a real impact in the team and on our business.

• Healthy work/life balance.
• Hybrid working model.
• Opportunities for personal growth: based on your experience, we will create a plan together with you for your personal development for the next years. We will do this through our 70-20-10 philosophy: 70% learning on the job, 20% coaching and 10% training.
• You will be given the opportunity to grow into a people leadership or a commercial leading role where you sell, lead and execute projects to help our customers succeed and therefore achieve our mission to promote an equitable energy transition.

About you

Are you passionate about FACTS (and HVDC) technology, the role it plays in advancing the energy transition and about Sales, BD, leading growth globally?

Join us at DNV and play a key part in building our FACTS consultancy business, developing cutting-edge FACTS transmission solutions that enhance affordability, sustainability, and reliability in electricity networks worldwide.

As our Sales & Technology Lead for FACTS you will be responsible for growing DNV’s FACTS consultancy business globally. You will interact closely with our customers, working closely with our Key Account Managers and Regional Business Managers, achieving order intake and revenue. You will also be responsible for FACTS thought leadership, FACTS proposition development and positioning as well as optimizing the competence level and capacity of the FACTS consultants within DNV. You will safeguard the technical quality of our offers as well the delivery of our services, working closely together with our Bid- and Project Managers and the team of FACTS consultants. You will present at conferences and represent DNV towards major technology institutes (e.g. IEEE, IEC, CIGRE). You will report to the Head of FlexGrid HV and be part of the global management team.

We are looking for a collaborative professional who’s excited to contribute their expertise in FACTS, their market understanding, stakeholder network, business development-, sales and managerial experience and competences. If you’re passionate about sales, business development and delivering innovative solutions, thrive in diverse teams, and enjoy making a real impact, this role is for you.

Additionally, we are looking for:

• A university degree (preferably a master’s degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering or a related field) and have preferably 5 or more years of experience in FACTS business development, sales and projects.
• You have solid technical knowledge of FACTS integration studies, software tools, and regulatory standards.
• You’re curious and solution-focused, using your expertise to create innovative ideas and drive opportunities.
• You thrive in dynamic, diverse, and collaborative international and multi-cultural environments.
• You’re a clear communicator who excels at simplifying complex concepts, and you’re open to traveling some of the time to connect with clients, attend conferences, visit project sites and meet with colleagues.

Security and compliance with statutory requirements in the countries in which we operate is essential for DNV. Background checks will be conducted on all final candidates as part of the offer process, in accordance with applicable country-specific laws and practices.

Benefits

Please note, benefits may depend on your contract type.

Profit Share

You’ll be part of our global profit share scheme that means we all share in our success as a business. If we profit, so do you. This will be part of our Total Compensation approach each year and depends on our year-end results.

Insurance

Taking care of you with travel, life, and accident insurance.

Pension Schemes

We care about your long-term financial security and prioritize pension and retirement benefits to reflect our caring values.

Professional Development

We believe in the 70/20/10 learning model, where 70% of your learning comes from performing your everyday tasks and working on different projects, new areas and initiatives to gain new skills. 20% from working with others and mentoring and the rest from formal education.

Hybrid Working

Adapting to the changing world of work around the world.

Purpose-led organization

You become part of a world-leading company where we know and live our purpose; to safeguard life, property, and the environment, with the opportunity to tackle global change through your work.

Supportive and caring culture

We offer opportunities to connect through social and professional networks. Our largest community CONNECT, organizes after-work events and informal meetings throughout the year.

Attractive rewards

We focus on work/life balance and offer employees flexible working hours and workplace, annual vacation allowance, competitive pension, insurance, and a global profit share scheme.