Senior Dir., IT Business Relationship/Demand Manager for HR, Legal Risk & Compliance, Audit, Co[...]

Olympus Corporation; Hamburg; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours (remote up to

30 days holidays

Modern office

Employee restaurant with healthy food

Public transport subsidized

Company gym

Employee Assistance Program

Pension scheme

Vaccination offers

Childcare support

Bike leasing

Job summary

Olympus is seeking a senior IT Strategy Lead to own and drive a global IT strategy for Finance, HR (including Employee Experience), Internal Communications and Corporate Governance functions. You will steward demand, shape investments, and ensure initiatives deliver measurable business value across geographies.

Leading executive stakeholders, you will guide transformation programs, oversee delivery, and foster digital/AI literacy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Master’s Degree strongly preferred, or equivalent relevant experience.
• 5+ years of senior leadership or senior consulting experience leading enterprise-wide technology strategy.
• Experience transforming processes and systems in global regulated environments.
• Proven ability to influence Executive, SVP, and VP stakeholders across regions.

Responsibilities

• Plan, develop, own, and drive an effective global IT strategy for Finance, HR, Internal Communications, and Corporate Governance Functions.
• Foster and manage business demand for IT investments across geographies and divisions; define optimal approaches and ensure valid projects.
• Provide executive oversight to delivery teams and ensure value realization and risk management.
• Identify strategic sourcing, vendor engagement, and execution approaches to support enterprise priorities.
• Coach executives to raise digital/AI literacy and articulate technology needs to improve business performance.
• Inform and influence Global Function executives to align with IT goals, enterprise architecture, and security strategy.
• Establish a Voice of the Customer process to measure IT service satisfaction and collaboration.
• Lead, motivate, and develop IT team members to meet current and future business needs.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Executive stakeholder management

Global program leadership

Change management

Education

Bachelor's in CS/Business

Master's degree preferred

Tools

SAP SuccessFactors

ERP systems

AI solutions

Job description

Your Responsibilities

- Plan, develop, own, and drive an effective global wide IT strategy for Finance, HR (incl. Employee Experience), Internal Communications, Corporate Governance Functions (Legal Compliance Risk Audit).

• - Foster, shape and manage the business demand for the IT investment in those Domains across all geographies and Divisions. Identifies the optimal approaches to meet the business's needs, as well as the cross-functional dependencies (both risks and synergy opportunities) with other Domain & Division BRM and the Regional IT Heads. Ensures that the prioritized demand is satisfyingly translated into valid IT solutions and clearly defined projects set up for success (right scoping, proper project setup, and clear benefit definition)
• - Once initiatives are in flight, provide executive oversight to ensure the Delivery teams commitments remain aligned with agreed business outcomes, and with value realization / risk management / executive stakeholder expectations satisfyingly managed. After completion, establish learning and continuous improvement mechanisms to enhance business value generation.
• - Identify required strategic sourcing, vendor engagement, analysis, recommendations, and execution approaches to successfully support enterprise priorities and sustained value realization.
• - Coaches executive business stakeholders and their direct reports and continuously raise their digital/AI literacy ; enables them to articulate technology needs and requirements that will advance business performance and maximize return on investment; proactively shares technology advancements and market success stories in respective Functional Domain.
• - As the IT organization's chief advocate, informs and influences the Global Function executives so that they understand and support projects that are in concert with IT goals, such as enterprise architecture and the infrastructure/application/security strategy.
• - Establish and run a Voice of the Customer (VoC) process to measure satisfaction with IT services and identify opportunities to improve IT and business unit collaboration and value delivery
• - Lead, motivate, develop, and performance-manage team members to ensure individual and collective performance meets current and future business needs

Your qualification

- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field required.

• - Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field strongly preferred, or equivalent relevant experience.
• - 5+ years of senior leadership or senior consulting experience leading enterprise-wide technology strategy, transformation programs, and executive stakeholder management.
• - Solid experience driving medium-to-large-scale process and system transformations in global organizations, preferably within a regulated industry.
• - Proven experience influencing Executive, SVP, and VP stakeholders across regions and functions to drive strategic decisions, investment prioritization, and organizational change.
• - Exceptional stakeholder management and collaboration skills, with experience engaging Western and Asian executives, aligning diverse perspectives, and driving convergence across functions, divisions, regions, and management levels.
• - Strong leadership, business acumen, and strategic thinking, with the ability to challenge the status quo, navigate ambiguity and complexity, bridge business and IT perspectives, and drive organizational change.
• - Minimum 5+ years of value creation and demand planning experience. Knowledge of Design Thinking, Value Stream Mapping, and Business Capability Modelling is a plus.
• - Experience in both solution consulting and project implementation.
• - High integrity and proven global operating experience, with expertise in Finance and HR technologies, including ERP, SAP SuccessFactors (or equivalent), and AI solutions.
• - BRM Institute Certification is an advantage but not required.

Your benefits

- Flexible working hours, remote work possible (up to 60%)

• - 30 days of holidays per year
• - Modern office and an inspiring working environment
• - Employee restaurant with live cooking and healthy food (subsidized)
• - Public transport ticket (100 % subsidized) or free parking space
• - Company sport groups and an inhouse company gym
• - Employee Assistance Program to support your health, mental and emotional well-being
• - A comprehensive company pension scheme
• - Company medical officer and vaccination offers
• - Childcare through our ‘Buttje&Deern’ partner
• - Bike leasing

About Olympus

At Olympus, we are committed to Our Purpose of making people’s lives healthier, safer and more fulfilling. As a global medical technology company, we partner with healthcare professionals to provide best-in-class solutions and services for early detection, diagnosis and minimally invasive treatment, aiming to improve patient outcomes by elevating the standard of care in targeted disease states.

For more than 100 years, Olympus has pursued a goal of contributing to society by producing products designed with the purpose of delivering optimal outcomes for its customers around the world.

For more information, visit www.olympus-europa.com and

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