Head of IT Management & Governance

Quick Facts

• Role: Head of IT Management & Governance (m/w/d)
• Focus: IT strategy, governance, architecture, controlling, service management, and sourcing
• Team building: Lead a newly established function with 85 employees across six teams
• Central priority: Responsible IT advancement through technological change, including AI integration

Description

You will lead and further develop the IT Management & Governance function, ensuring strategic and operational progress on core IT topics such as business alignment, IT architecture, governance, controlling, service management, and sourcing. The role steers the IT strategy in line with business goals and advances IT architecture in a forward-looking, strategy-conform way, including holistic integration of AI technologies. You will build a connected team culture focused on transparency, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Build, develop, and effectively network the function across six teams (85 employees total)
• Develop and align the IT strategy with company and business strategy, including end-to-end integration of AI technologies
• Ensure efficient, binding collaboration within IT and with business units
• Steer implementation of the IT strategy to ensure secure, high-performing, and future-ready IT
• Design and evolve IT architecture in a strategy-aligned and proactive manner
• Strategically steer IT procurement, IT controlling, IT service management, and IT governance; ensure consistent standards are implemented
• Promote a culture of ownership, transparency, and continuous improvement

Requirements

• Completed degree in Computer Science, Business Informatics, or comparable qualification
• Several years of leadership experience in strategic IT or IT strategy
• Initiative-driven, convincing leadership personality
• Ability to holistically capture stakeholder/customer needs and implement future-oriented, pragmatic solutions
• Strong networking and cooperation skills
• Proven experience with architectures in complex application landscapes

Benefits

• Permanent full-time role
• 35.5-hour workweek
• Company pension plan
• 30 vacation days plus additional days off on 24.12. and 31.12.
• Savings-based employer contributions (vermögenswirksame Leistungen)
• Life working time account (Lebensarbeitszeitkonto)
• Subsidies for the Deutschlandticket (Deutschlandjobticket)
• In-company sports (Betriebssport)
• Flexible working hours and partial home office
• TK-Jobrad bike leasing option