Business Partner: Become the gateway for businesses into the Municipality of Køge

Do you want to lead the single entry for companies and help make it easy to be a business in Køge Municipality? Køge Municipality has high ambitions for our business service. Companies should experience a municipality that is professional, accessible and solution-oriented

It should be a good experience for businesses in Køge Municipality to contact the municipality, get answers to inquiries and have cases processed – whether it concerns building permits, planning law, environmental issues, workforce or also when their project or needs involve multiple parts of the municipality.

Therefore we are strengthening our business effort with a business partner who, together with the current One Window for business, will be the clear gateway for companies into Køge Municipality. We are looking for you who are strong in meeting with businesses, have a sense for both people and processes, and thrive in a role where you create progress through collaboration.

A central role in the municipality's business service As a business partner, you will be a key person in the way companies meet Køge Municipality. You will gain an understanding of the company’s situation, clarify the needs and find the right way forward. Some inquiries can quickly be sent to the right professional area. Others require multiple authorities to be involved, and here you will have an important role in creating overview, coordinating the process and following up on progress.

You do not take over the authority handling from your colleagues, but ensure that the company knows what needs to happen, who does what, and what the next step is. Your task is to make the collaboration succeed so that businesses experience the municipality as one single organization.

In 2027, Erhvervshus Sjælland will take over the operation of the local business service. Some employees from Erhvervshuset will be physically located in the Technical and Environmental Administration. You will therefore have direct collaboration with them. You will also work closely with the municipality’s business coordinator in the Staff and the other business ambassadors in the One Window team, to create coherence between the concrete business service and the municipality’s broader business effort.

Your most important tasks

• Be the companies’ fixed point of contact and part of One Window, which receives and clarifies inquiries, finds the relevant area and follows the case until the company has received its answer.
• Keep an eye on progress and follow-up, including by obtaining status from relevant areas and agreeing internal deadlines.
• Ensure that the company within the set deadline receives a qualified reply about who is responsible for the case, any missing information, next steps and the time of the next status update or anticipated decision.
• Agree fixed times for status updates in longer cases and ensure that the company is continuously informed about the process and progress – even when a decision has not yet been made.
• Ensure cross-cutting coordination of processes across, among others, construction, environment, planning, roads and parks as well as local business service, the business coordinator, Rekruttering Køge Bugt, educational institutions, etc.
• Early dialogue and pre-screening, for example by arranging pre-dialogue meetings, so that the company, relevant authorities and business service sit together from the start and align possibilities, authority requirements and next steps.
• Contribute to the development of tools and procedures that support case overview, follow-up and ongoing contact with companies.
• Support the business coordinator with planning and conducting company visits and events for the business community, as well as act as deputy in case of absence
• Collaborate with the Staff’s business coordinator and translate experiences from companies into development of the municipality's overall business effort.
• Contribute to an even more service-oriented and solution-focused authority handling as well as better cross-cutting forms of collaboration
• Contribute to follow-up on relevant service targets and evaluation of the arrangement, so experiences of response times, progress, companies' experiences and any bottlenecks are translated into ongoing improvements, e.g., through optimization of the municipality’s response processes, as well as service to business life, via optimization of the municipality’s digital channels. The evaluation of the arrangement must also be communicated to the political level
• Proactive communication to the business community about changes in legislation or similar that can help businesses with their operations.

Who are you? There are several paths into the position, and your concrete educational background is not decisive. You may have experience from municipal business service, public administration, project or process management, authorities work, advice or another cross-cutting function with close contact between business life and public authorities.

We especially emphasize that you

• have experience from a politically governed organization – preferably a municipality – and understand the interplay between law, politics, service and authorities roles
• have good business sense and understand the importance of timing and clear processes. Experience from the private business sector is an advantage
• have organizational acumen and can navigate between different professional disciplines, interests and roles
• can build trust, bridge between authority requirements and companies' needs, and translate good intentions into concrete results
• communicate clearly, simply and at eye level with both small and large businesses
• can maintain an overview in complex processes and follow agreements through to the end.

Personal competencies To succeed in the role, you must be curious, proactive and skilled at building relationships. We would like you to be:

• good at building relationships and creating a positive collaboration with both small and large companies, as well as with the different people in the administration
• solution-oriented, pragmatic and proactive
• diplomatic and trustworthy as a bridge-builder
• flexible and possessing a good sense of situation
• motivated by many points of contact and different interests
• able to create engagement among both businesses and colleagues.

Why you should choose us You will get an exciting, newly created position with a lot of independence, wide contact surface and opportunity to lead an effort with great significance for businesses, management and politicians. You can help companies here and now and influence the way Køge Municipality meets the business community.

You will become part of the Technical and Environmental Administration, where we help each other, share knowledge and prioritize professional sparring. We have an informal tone, high trust and freedom to solve the tasks in the way that creates the most value.

Do you want to help make it easier to be a business in Køge Municipality? If you are passionate about relationships, collaboration and development, and if you can see yourself as the companies’ strong entry point into the municipality, we look forward to hearing from you.

The position is full-time. Salary and employment terms follow the applicable collective agreement and Ny Løn principles.

Application The application deadline is 30 November 2026.

We wish to fill the position as soon as possible and no later than 1 February 2027.

Send your application and CV online via the button “Search for the position”.

Read more about Køge Municipality at www.koege.dk

We look forward to receiving your application.