Head of Development Client Solutions (m/f/d)

About the job

Head of Development Client Solutions (m/f/d)

What can you expect?

• You take on the personnel, organisational and strategic overall responsibility for the Development Client Solutions division and lead the directly subordinate managers.
• You understand the development of people as a central leadership task. You specifically develop leaders and employees, promote potential, strengthen personal responsibility and create the conditions for sustainable competence and know-how development.
• You are responsible for the sustainable further development and stable operation of customer-oriented IT solutions and ensure compliance with relevant quality, architecture, security, risk and compliance requirements.
• You develop the division into a high-performance, impact-oriented delivery organisation and strengthen implementation power along key products, services and customer journeys.
• You actively shape the introduction and sustainable anchoring of the new delivery model and create the organisational, technological and cultural conditions for stable teams, clear responsibilities and reliable delivery cycles.
• Together with the business managers, you establish end-to-end responsibility for the further development and operation of the solutions under your responsibility.
• You ensure cross-divisional delivery capability and provide effective management of roadmaps, capacities, dependencies, risks and delivery commitments.
• You drive the technological and organisational further development of the division, reduce complexity and technical legacy issues, while simultaneously creating space for strategic future topics and innovation.
• You work closely with the development, architecture, platform, security and infrastructure units and ensure clear interfaces, transparent responsibilities and effective escalation paths.
• You maintain a partnership-based collaboration with the business managers and other key stakeholders and represent the interests of the division in relevant steering and decision-making bodies.
• You establish a modern, empowering leadership culture, promote personal responsibility, cross-divisional collaboration and continuous learning.
• As a member of the IT department leadership team, you actively shape the IT strategy, the further development of the operating model and cross-departmental decisions.

What do you bring with you?

• You have a completed university degree in computer science, business informatics, engineering or a comparable field, ideally complemented by business or leadership-related further training.
• You bring several years of leadership experience in a large and complex IT organisation, ideally across multiple leadership levels and with different technological areas of responsibility.
• You have proven experience in leading and transforming software development, delivery or product organisations.
• You understand the development of people as a core leadership task and have a proven track record in developing leaders, talents and organisations.
• You possess a solid understanding of modern software development, application architectures and operating models as well as the requirements for security, compliance, quality and technological sustainability.
• You are familiar with product-oriented organisational models, end-to-end responsibility, agile working methods and collaboration in stable, interdisciplinary teams.
• You can assess technological issues competently, set clear guardrails and make sustainable decisions without falling into operational micro-management.
• You convince with pronounced strategic and conceptual skills as well as proven implementation strength in demanding transformation and change projects.
• You have experience in managing capacities, budgets, portfolios, external partners and complex dependencies, ideally in a regulated corporate environment.
• You present yourself confidently, act thoughtfully even in demanding situations and provide clear orientation to employees, leaders and stakeholders.
• You have strong communication and stakeholder skills and can bring together different perspectives from business and IT into a common vision.
• You think entrepreneurially, act result-oriented and constructively question existing structures and procedures.
• You have very good German skills as well as good English skills.

We offer flexible working models

The work-life balance of our employees is important to us. Therefore, we create the conditions for flexible working hours – with options for mobile working, home office and part-time positions.

We foster a family-like environment

Cooperative values are our cornerstones: Together. For each other. They shape our collaboration and our interactions. The informal "Du" culture creates personal closeness and equality across all functional levels.

We live diversity and equal opportunities

We promote the different perspectives, experiences and skills in our teams. Because this diversity makes us special and contributes decisively to our success.

We offer collective profit sharing instead of individual bonuses

We focus on collective performance. Therefore, we have collective profit sharing instead of individual bonus payments. This promotes a healthy corporate culture in which overarching goals are pursued together.

We support personal and professional development

Lifelong learning is part of our culture. We create space for individual professional and personal development and support our employees specifically – with a diverse internal training offer as well as cost sharing for external further training.

We make "healthy living & working" a programme

With our holistic offer "healthy living & working" we support our employees in finding and maintaining a healthy balance between work and private life in the long term.

Do you have questions?

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For questions about the application process:

Sarah Luschnig
HR Business Partner RCH
+41 (71) 2258945

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