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About us
Damen Maritime Ventures is a division within Damen and part of Damen’s overall efforts to drive the transformation of the shipbuilding industry and shape the future of maritime solutions. Our effective, efficient and pragmatic strategic portfolio management enables our division to maximize shareholder impact, by adding value through collaboration and pro-active engagement with and between our maritime ventures. We connect our ventures and ideas with operational expertise and world-class infrastructure. We scale the most promising ideas to deliver meaningful impact to Damen.
By setting up an ecosystem we strive to further sustain profitable growth through carefully governed meaningful (ad)ventures. By acting rapidly and agile on existing and new opportunities we can differentiate ourselves from competition and become leading in our selected distinct product, service and local shipbuilding markets.
The role
Are you ready for a challenging and innovative job to make the difference from strategic innovation perspective? We are searching for a Corporate Venturing Manager!As Corporate Venturing Manager you actively support the Corporate Venturing Unit (CVU) in scouting, investing and growing highly innovative startups and scale-ups. You will be part of a small specialized team, reporting directly to the Head of Corporate Venturing. With the team, you are responsible for evaluation, selection and execution of startup investment opportunities. You will do this in close cooperation with top management, Damen Divisions and multi-disciplinary projects teams. The CVU actively manages multiple startups and focusses on integrating startup innovations within the Damen group.Within this role, you need to have great stakeholder management skills and you need to be able to operate on all hierarchical levels. You are responsible for creating valuable and creative links between business opportunities and technological advancements
Key accountabilities
To support and manage the process that leads to strategic innovation integrating, start-up investments and startup growth, we expect you to be able to:
In addition to the above described main tasks, the Corporate Venturing Manager is actively involved in:
Skills & experience
What we offer
Here at Damen we realize supporting and managing many talented individuals is of great essence. We understand that the key to success is to find the right person for the right job. That’s why we continually invest in your development. Damen offers you (in case of full-time employment):
We’re a family company that has been building ships for almost 100 years. Our ambition is to become the most sustainable and connected maritime solutions provider there is. Working at Damen offers the best of several worlds. Active in more than 100 countries, with over 30 shipyards, we are internationally renowned for quality. We offer you an ocean of possibilities.
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