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Sefar Group at a glance

Sefar is the world’s leading manufacturer of precision fabrics from monofilaments for the screen printing and filtration markets. Sefar products are used in a wide variety of industries, reaching from electronics, graphics, architecture, medical, automotive, food and pharmaceutical applications to mining and refining, aerospace and smart fabrics. 

Sefar operates weaving mills in Switzerland, Romania and Thailand.  With Monosuisse, the Sefar Group has its own yarn production with locations in Switzerland, Poland, Romania, Mexico and Germany.

Based on extensive know-how, our global network of subsidiaries, and manufacturing centers in 27 countries on 6 continents, we can quickly and efficiently help our customers to achieve the best results in their industrial processes and applications.
At Sefar, we lead the world in developing, producing, and fabricating innovative solutions with technical precision fabrics for filtration and screen printing applications. Our commitment to excellence is evident in the work of our over 3,000 employees globally, serving international customers from our 26 subsidiaries worldwide. This dedication ensures our sustainable success. 

Your Role

The Head IT Sefar Group shapes and owns the Sefar IT vision to drive digital transformation in the entire Sefar Group. Together with the global IT team, this role aligns strategic IT planning with business goals, spearheads IT project leadership and drives continuous process optimization. The incumbent drives and enables business to tap digital opportunities, maintains and enhances IT operations and infrastructure, manages core applications and ensures seamless, secure processes and system evolutions.
 
Your Tasks

• Digitalization and IT Strategy: As part of the extended Group management identify opportunities for digitalization and continuously align the IT Strategy with the company’s strategic objectives and growth plans.


• IT Planning and Management: Oversee the IT department’s operational and strategic planning, including business requirements, project planning, and organizing and negotiating the allocation of resources.


• Organization: Organizationally lead our 7 core IT teams with overall 40 employees. Be a subject matter lead for our IT managers and coordinators in each subsidiary.


• Together with the teams, you are ensuring:
  
  
  
  • Infrastructure Oversight: Ensure the continuous availability and resilience of IT infrastructure and service desk across all sites, including data centers, network systems, and cloud operations.
  
  
  • Core Applications and Operations: Manage the operations of core business applications ensuring their optimal performance, standardization and alignment with business processes.
  
  
  • Project Leadership: Direct the planning and implementation of projects with relation to IT (business/organizational projects and IT projects). Shape the way we do projects.
  
  
  • Process and Implementation Management: Oversee the continuous improvement of processes based on IT and their implementation in our applications, data, and infrastructure. Shape the way we optimize processes.
  
  
  • Information Security and Compliance: Lead the efforts to make Sefar safer (people, processes and technology), ensuring compliance with international standards and regulatory requirements. Oversee business continuity and disaster recovery planning.
  
  
  
  


• Vendor and Stakeholder Management: Manage relationships with software and hardware vendors, service providers, and internal stakeholders to support IT strategy and operations. Closely collaborate with our purchasing department.


• Leadership and Development: Lead, motivate, and develop a high-performing IT organization; manage talent acquisition and professional growth to align with IT and business objectives. Lead the transition a future proof and global IT organization.

Your Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in a similar role


• Proven experience in managing larger-scale IT operations and strategic planning within a global industrial setting.


• Profound technical affinity paired with solid state of the art knowledge of IT infrastructures, enterprise software applications and web technologies.


• Experience with data security, compliance, and risk management in IT contexts.


• Familiarity with enterprise architecture and the implementation of IT governance and best practices in project management.


• Master Degree in IT Management, paired with a solid business background; advanced degree or professional IT certifications preferred.


• Fluent in German and English.


• Excellent analytical, strategic thinking, and problem-solving abilities.


• Pragmatic personality with strong execution skills


• High degree of flexibility, stress resistance and resilience


• Strong organizational skills


• Willingness to travel to subsidiaries


• At least 10 years of international work experience


• At least 5 years experience in leading multiple IT teams.


• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, capable of working effectively across all levels of an organization and with external partners.


• Ability to drive digitization in a technically complex and dynamic environment.

Our Offer

We offer you an exciting and varied job in an international environment as well as good cooperation in a strong team.  You can expect transparency, freedom to act and to make your own decisions based on the Sefar Group strategy. We promote further training and career opportunities. Above-average social benefits and modern employment conditions are a matter of course for us.
Have we sparked your interest? Then we look forward to receiving your online application using the “Apply now!” button.

If you have any questions in advance, Arsim Luma HR-Business Partner (Phone +41 71 898 57 00) will be happy to provide you with more detailed information.