Global IT Team Lead R&D, Quality and Operations Applications - OESL (m/f/diverse)

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Global IT Team Lead R&D, Quality and Operations Applications - OESL (m/f/diverse), Hanover

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Location: Hanover, Germany

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference: 342bee692006

Job Views: 1

Posted: 27.04.2025

Expiry Date: 11.06.2025

Job Description

Are you an ambitious IT professional looking for challenges, growth, and flexibility? You are structured and enjoy communicating and exchanging with stakeholders while driving things forward? Then you've come to the right place.

The OESL IT department is newly conceived and being built now! With this pioneering effort, OESL IT will be flexible, fast, and forward-thinking. Our IT team will become a strategic advisory partner, strengthening digital capabilities and driving business success.

In your role as Global IT Team Lead R&D, Quality and Operations Applications, you will work in a dynamic environment to modernize and optimize the IT system landscape. You will handle relationships with business customers and internal/external suppliers for all R&D, quality management, and operations applications. You will be part of the new business applications team, responsible for approximately 20+ FTEs.

Your Responsibilities:

• Define and manage the IT product portfolio strategy for R&D, Quality, and Operations applications, ensuring seamless integration into the organization’s IT architecture to support business needs.
• Develop and maintain application roadmaps that drive innovation, agility, and operational effectiveness across product development, quality management, and operations.
• Take full responsibility for the IT product lifecycle, including planning, demand management, delivery, and performance tracking, ensuring continuous improvement and issue resolution.
• Foster a product-oriented culture with a BizDevOps approach, managing both domestic and international teams and ensuring effective collaboration across time zones and business units.
• Build and lead cross-functional product teams, promoting accountability, innovation, and high performance while empowering them to work independently using agile methods.
• Ensure effective resource allocation, maintain alignment with business priorities, and provide mentorship to foster team development and career growth.
• Act as the central liaison between IT and business stakeholders, translating the needs of engineering, manufacturing, and quality teams into scalable, value-driven IT solutions.
• Maintain relationships with key technology partners and suppliers in the R&D, quality, and operations applications space, ensuring strategic alignment and support.
• Drive IT innovation by leveraging emerging technologies (IoT, AI, digital twins, advanced analytics) to modernize systems.
• Promote continuous improvement and digital transformation, optimizing IT-enabled processes for product development, quality assurance, and operational efficiency.

Qualifications

• Degree in IT, business informatics/engineering/administration or equivalent.
• Proven experience managing a portfolio of R&D, Quality, and Operations applications, ensuring seamless integration into modern IT architecture.
• Expertise in IT solutions supporting R&D, such as PLM, QMS, and smart factory applications.
• Experience driving digital transformation initiatives in R&D, quality, and operations.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong knowledge of modern IT architectures, including cloud solutions, IoT, AI, data analytics.
• Understanding of product development, quality control, compliance, and manufacturing operations.
• Business acumen and ability to analyze complex operational requirements.
• Experience leading IT projects across stakeholders and teams, locally and internationally.
• Multi-project management skills.
• Leadership and coaching skills to motivate teams.
• Ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Applications from severely handicapped people are welcome.

Additional Information

About OESL IT

OESL IT is at the forefront of our transformation, built to be agile, forward-thinking, and strategic. Our IT team will play a pivotal role as a strategic advisory partner, driving digital capabilities and enabling business success.

Why Join OESL IT?

• Greater Impact: Shape the future of a newly formed, dynamic IT organization, with opportunities to bring ideas to life.
• Growth and Innovation: Work in a cloud-based environment that encourages innovation and continuous growth.
• Creative Space: Experience a start-up culture within a global organization, with creative freedom and responsibility.
• Tight-Knit Team: Join a collaborative team where individuals can make meaningful contributions.