As Vice President Business IT, you will be part of the Senior Leadership Team and report directly to the COO. Together with the Vice President Corporate IT, you will lead our IT department and make a decisive contribution to the company's success.

Job Definition

• Discovering and implementing new technologies that yield competitive advantage
• Re-aligning the state of the art cloud strategy with business short and long-term needs and consulting regarding refactoring
• Working with the leadership team to set clear priorities and aligning our global business units balancing the long-term and immediate needs
• Defining our IT Architecture and Data Science and Machine learning strategies as well as leading the related consulting and support functions
  
• Use stakeholders’ feedback to make necessary improvements and adjustments to technology
• Maintaining a consumer-focused outlook and aiding in the delivery of IT projects
• Ensuring tight collaboration across departments to drive knowledge share, strategic initiatives, including understanding of the alignment between technology strategy and various technology road maps
  
• Managing captive offshoring development team
  
• Managing IT resource allocation, KPI setting, performance metrics, and employee/people resources
  

Job Qualification

• Proven experience as a senior manager or similar IT leadership role
• Good knowledge in modern cloud usage e.g. serverless computing
• Knowledge of technological trends to build strategy
• Experience designing and managing an effective IT governance framework across the spectrum of IT service delivery
• Experience leading complex, major changes and initiatives; demonstrated skills in change management of an organizational and interpersonal level
• Expertise integrating teams across multiple business units and managing a geographically dispersed workforce
• Excellent communication skills with ability to convey technical topics in easy-to-understand business terms in connection with a problem-solving attitude
  
• Very good communication and presentation skills in English and German language