Responsibility for central corporate and business area development projects., Focus on project development, citizen participation, and citizen financing for renewable energies with interfaces to energy supply., Direct collaboration with management and steering of external and internal experts to achieve strategically important goals., Identification and evaluation of opportunities for cooperations, participations, or joint ventures and accompanying their implementation within the cooperative network of Bürgerwerke., Initiation and coordination of piloting new business areas and strategic options, bringing them to implementation readiness for scaling., Development of effective innovation management and monitoring of relevant market developments in renewable energies and decentralized energy transition (e.g., regulation, technology, trends, competition), deriving impulses for strategy, product development, and risk management.