Head of IT

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Overall accountability for IT and digital transformation across the organization, emphasizing standardization, scalability, and value generation.

• Formulate and execute a comprehensive IT and digital transformation strategy for the Group, including roadmap creation, budget management, and prioritization.

• Standardize and enhance the ERP and application landscape throughout all subsidiaries.

• Direct the IT integration process for newly acquired enterprises.

• Guarantee stable, secure, and scalable IT operations across all sites, encompassing infrastructure, networks, cloud services, and production IT.

• Ensure and advance IT security, business continuity, and regulatory compliance.

• Create policies, contingency plans, and enhance organizational awareness.

• Lead and cultivate IT departments throughout the Group's companies.

• Oversee external service providers and partners, managing contracts, costs, and performance.

• Act as the central liaison among business functions, Group companies, management, and private equity investors.

• Serve as a collaborative partner for digital transformation and automation initiatives.

⛳️ Requirements

• A completed degree in computer science, business informatics, engineering, business administration with a focus on IT, or an equivalent qualification.

• Several years of relevant experience in IT, preferably with leadership roles and close engagement with executive management in a corporate group or mid-sized industrial company.

• Extensive knowledge of ERP systems, IT infrastructure, cloud technologies, and IT security.

• Experience in building and harmonizing IT structures, processes, and systems within dynamic organizations, ideally in a growth and acquisition context.

• Strong analytical and strategic thinking abilities, paired with a hands-on approach and excellent execution skills.

• Experience in managing projects and service providers, along with responsibility for IT budgets.

• Familiarity with production or industrial IT is a plus.

• Proficient in both written and spoken German and English.

🏝️ Benefits

• Permanent employment contract.

• Three-month probationary period.

• 40-hour work week.

• 30 days of annual leave.

• Performance-based compensation and attractive benefits.

• Development opportunities across the entire PolymerCycle Group.

• Collaboration within a dynamic, interdisciplinary team.

• Exciting role in a growing, future-oriented market.