People Lead (all genders) | 80-100%
Key information
- Publication date:08 October 2025
- Workload:80 – 100%
- Place of work:Basel
Your job in brief
- Empower and develop people. You coach, accompany, and support IT professionals in unlocking their full potential. In doing so, you promote growth, motivation, and continuous learning.
- Shape the future of leadership. You live modern, agile leadership within the framework of our Dual Leadership Model and actively drive cultural transformation as well as organizational resilience.
- Connect strategy and people. You translate corporate goals into concrete team and individual goals, ensuring that the right skills, appropriate collaboration, and a shared mindset are anchored in our IT landscape.
What awaits you
As a coach and leader, you support your team members in their development and help them unlock their full potential. You strengthen existing competencies, address development areas constructively, and create opportunities for continuous learning. Together with product managers, product owners, and organizational developers, you ensure the right interplay of skills and effective collaboration within IT.
Specific areas of responsibility include, among others:
- Translation of corporate strategy into clear team and individual goals as well asaccompaniment of processes for implementing strategic initiatives.
- Design and anchoring of cultural values, leadership principles, andforms of cooperation that promote organizational resilience and transformation.
- Conducting regular development and career discussions to recognize strengths,address growth areas, and support employees through change phases.
- Promotion of long-term talent development that builds on strategic skills and aculture of continuous learning.
- Responsibility for recruitment, compensation, promotions, evaluations, workload, andon-/offboarding in close collaboration with HR.
- Full responsibility for personnel costs as well as learning and development budgets.
- Promotion of motivation, cohesion, and psychological safety in the team – as astabilizing contact person in times of change and as a supporter in thefurther development of leadership roles.
- Leadership and networking of teams across departments and regions tostrengthen matrix-based, agile collaboration and connect organizational levels.
Your team
You will become part of a People Lead community that lives a shared understanding of modern, human-centered leadership. Together, we support our teams and the organization in growing, developing further, and achieving sustainable impact.
Our common goal is to redefine leadership based on trust, openness, and mutual responsibility. We create an environment where people take responsibility, actively shape change, and continuously develop themselves.
By combining strategic thinking and empathy, we promote cross-departmental collaboration and strengthen a culture of learning and shared progress. In our community, we understand leadership as a shared responsibility. We inspire, empower, and support each other, thus creating a work environment where people and organizations succeed together.
At Baloise, we value curiosity, collaboration, and personal growth because we are convinced: leadership starts with people.
What we expect
You love new challenges, take responsibility, and actively drive things forward. With your strong service mindset and genuine interest in people, you contribute to teams growing and unlocking their full potential. You are curious, open to new ideas, and see continuous learning as a natural part of your personal and professional development.
As a coach and leader on equal footing, you promote the strengths of your employees, address development areas constructively, and accompany them through change processes. You create an environment where motivation, collaboration, and psychological safety are a given.
Your professional qualifications:
- You have at least 5 years of experience in disciplinary team leadership, ideally in organizations with separate functional and personnel leadership
- A university or technical college degree in (business) informatics, business administration, psychology, or equivalent professional experience
- Proven competence in coaching, mentoring, mediation, and other leadership and development methods
- Experience in personnel strategy, resource, and skill management
- Knowledge of current IT process standards and trends (e.g., DevOps, AI, IT service, management, cloud, cybersecurity, operational resilience)
- Practical experience in agile frameworks such as Lean, SAFe, Scrum, or Kanban
- Solid knowledge of HR processes, especially talent development and acquisition
- Very good English skills; German skills are an advantage
