Head of IT
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Head of IT leading technology, ERP, cybersecurity, and digital transformation for PolymerCycle, an integrated plastics recycling group. Driving scalable systems across its recycling businesses.
Responsibilities:
- Overall responsibility for IT and digital transformation across the Group, with a focus on standardization, scalability, and value creation
- Develop and implement a Group-wide IT and digital transformation strategy, including the roadmap, budget ownership, and prioritization
- Harmonize and further develop the ERP and application landscape across all companies
- Lead the IT integration of newly acquired companies
- Ensure stable, secure, and scalable IT operations across all locations, including infrastructure, networks, cloud services, and production IT
- Ensure and further develop IT security, business continuity, and compliance
- Develop policies, contingency plans, and organizational awareness
- Lead and develop IT functions across the Group’s companies
- Manage external service providers and partners, including contract, cost, and performance management
- Serve as the central interface between business functions, Group companies, management, and the private equity investor
- Act as a sparring partner for digital transformation and automation initiatives
Requirements:
- Successfully completed degree in computer science, business informatics, engineering, business administration with a focus on IT, or a comparable qualification
- Several years of relevant professional experience in IT, ideally with leadership responsibility and close interaction with executive management in a corporate group or industrial mid-sized company
- In-depth knowledge of ERP systems, IT infrastructure and cloud technologies, and IT security
- Experience building and harmonizing IT structures, processes, and systems in dynamic organizations, ideally in the context of growth and acquisitions
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking combined with a hands-on mentality and excellent execution skills
- Experience managing projects and service providers, as well as responsibility for IT budgets
- Knowledge of production or industrial IT is an advantage
- Very good 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
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