Business Unit Manager (Identity & Access Management)

Quick Facts

• Role: Business Unit Manager (Identity & Access Management)

• Location: Poland (Katowice), with collaboration to Düsseldorf (Germany)

Description

As Business Unit Manager, you will build and lead a new Identity and Access Management business unit in Poland. You will grow a team (up to 10 IAM consultants and engineers within 12 months) while acting as a key link to the Düsseldorf team and staying hands-on in client delivery across the full IAM lifecycle. The role blends team leadership with delivery, planning, and operational support in an agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Build up and head a new Business Unit in Poland

• Lead professional and disciplinary management of the team: recruitment, onboarding, mentoring, and development

• Develop IAM competencies and recruit missing skills

• Own budget, timeline, and delivery success (staffing plans, utilization, forecasts, monthly reporting)

• Plan and steer assignments across multiple parallel client engagements; balance delivery commitments with team capacity; flag risks early

• Supervise delivery and report on KPIs against the business plan in agile mode with an international team

• Support proposals and bids with realistic effort estimates and staffing concepts

• Stay hands-on in client engagements: solution assessments, technology scouting, integration, implementation, data migration, and operations

• Support operational run of IAM platforms: troubleshooting, maintenance, and continuous improvements in production

• Collaborate with Düsseldorf leads and architects with clear handoffs and shared tooling (Jira, Confluence)

Requirements

• Completed university degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or comparable field

• Several years of professional experience, including experience leading and managing a team (ideally in consulting/professional services)

• Entrepreneurial mindset to build a unit from scratch

• Solid commercial project management skills: planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting in billable multi-project environments

• Strong stakeholder management skills

• Strong communication skills in English and Polish

• Willingness to travel occasionally to Germany (mainly Düsseldorf) and to client sites

Benefits

Opportunity to build a new IAM practice chapter in Poland from scratch and grow the team over the next 12 months.