Head of External IT Operations (80 – 100%)
Zürich
Key information
- Publication date:07 January 2026
- Workload:80 – 100%
- Contract type:Permanent position
- Place of work:Zürich
Job summary
Join CISTEC AG as the Head of External IT Operations—an innovative health tech company. Enjoy a dynamic work environment with flexible hours!
Tasks
- Lead overall external operations including Service Desk and ICT.
- Ensure high first-contact resolution rates and effective customer communication.
- Manage incident, problem, and change processes efficiently.
Skills
- 10+ years in leadership, 5+ years in IT operations management required.
- Strong strategic and analytical skills essential for success.
- Fluent in German and English; French is a plus.
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Head of External IT Operations (80 – 100 %)
CISTEC AG is a successful SME and is continuously looking for qualified and motivated employees. If you are interested in working for an innovative software and service company in the healthcare sector, get in touch with us. Due to our growth, we are looking for a Head of External IT Operations for our team.
Your tasks
- Overall responsibility for external operations (Service Desk and ICT)
- Leading the Service Desk and ensuring a high first-time resolution rate as well as professional customer communication
- Ensuring operational stability across all customer systems (monitoring, alerting, release capability, security patches)
- Incident, problem, and change management, including escalation and communication processes
- Managing external service providers and monitoring their SLA compliance
- Resource management for operational capacities in operations (Service Desk, ICT Engineers, On-Call Services)
- Operational and service continuity: ensuring backup, recovery, emergency, and business continuity processes
- Ensuring compliance with contractual service levels (SLA/KPI reporting, throughput times, availability)
- Introduction and further development of operational governance, including processes, standards, tools, and continuous improvements
- Customer communication during disruptions: responsible for timely, precise, and transparent notifications to all customers
Your profile
- 10+ years of successful leadership experience, 5+ years of experience leading an IT operations organization
- Completed studies in medicine, computer science, or a related field
- Strong strategic and analytical skills
- Entrepreneurial thinking, decisiveness, and leadership qualities
- Successful experience in building and further developing IT operations organizations
- Very high self-motivation, energy, and resilience
- Fluent in German & English, French is an advantage
We offer you interesting and challenging projects in an interdisciplinary, highly qualified team of software developers, doctors, nursing professionals, and project managers. Our software product and company are in a rapidly growing market and offer you interesting professional and personal development opportunities. Part-time work, flexible working hours, and home office are a matter of course for us.
If you have any questions, Mr. Thomas Mauron, Special Projects Operations, will be happy to assist you (Email: moc.cetsic@noruam.samoht). Please send your complete application documents by email to moc.cetsic@gnubreweb.