IT & Digital Transformation Director

Do you want to be part of an innovative digital project that is transforming how people access mobility services
Office location: Wilanow
Hybrid work: 3 days in the office

Our client is a leading provider in Central and Eastern Europe offering mobility solutions that help businesses manage their fleets more effectively. They are creating a seamless digital experience that supports every step of the customer journeyfrom booking and managing vehicles to monitoring costs and optimizing fleet performance. Through innovative platforms such as customer portals and mobile apps they provide real-time insights and connected tools that make mobility management easier smarter and more efficient.

We are seeking a strategic and hands-on IT & Digital Transformation Director to lead the charge in building the technological future of our clients operations. This pivotal role is responsible for shaping and executing the digital agenda ensuring that technology serves as a powerful engine for business growth and operational excellence. You will be the key architect behind a robust scalable IT environment that supports ambitious business objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Strategy & Leadership: Define and execute the local IT and digitalization strategy that supports business objectives ensuring alignment with the broader EU group strategy while adapting it pragmatically to our scale and budget.
• Business Partnership: Act as the key liaison between technology and the business (Sales Operations Finance) challenging needs building strong business cases for investment and ensuring technology enables commercial success.
• Vendor & Ecosystem Management: Lead the management of all IT vendors outsourcing partners and cloud providers. Ensure service excellence cost-effectiveness and that architectural standards and security are maintained across all third-party solutions.
• Infrastructure & Operations Oversight: Provide overall governance for IT infrastructure (networks security on-prem cloud) support processes (1st/2nd/3rd line) and operations ensuring reliability and performance while managing outsourced day-to-day operations.
• Transformation & Project Governance: Drive key digitalization projects (e.g. cloud migration application integration identity management workflows genAI) from conception to delivery implementing best practices in project management.
• Financial Management: Develop and manage the IT budget P&L and forecasting. Conduct cost-benefit analyses for all technology investments clearly demonstrating ROI and total cost of ownership.
• Team Leadership: Manage small team (IT service management ERP support project management office) fostering a culture of business value delivery pragmatism and continuous improvement.

Who We Are Looking For:

• Proven experience in a Senior Leadership role with a strong focus on digital transformation and business partnering.
• Background in automotive banking or insurance industries strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of the link between IT and business able to articulate and deliver business value through technology.
• A unique blend of strategic vision and hands-on pragmatism. You are equally comfortable discussing high-level architecture with group experts and diving into details to solve a critical issue.
• Extensive experience in vendor management negotiating contracts and managing outsourced IT services and infrastructure.
• Solid understanding of modern IT concepts: hybrid hosting model (cloud/on-prem including legacy ERP systems) integration patterns (APIs microservices IAM) cybersecurity enterprise architecture machine learning/genAI tooling data governance and management best practices. You dont need to be a deep technical expert but must be able to credibly manage experts and vendors.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to influence negotiate and explain complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Leadership mentality: A proactive driver personality who takes ownership. You are willing to be hands-on when needed and lead by example without considering any task beneath you
• Experience with budgets and P&L management (preferred)
• Results-driven process-oriented and business-focused.
• A true driver of digital transformation and a trusted partner to top management
• Fluency in English is mandatory

You will love to join this company for:

• Impactful Work: You will have the autonomy to build shape and own a product that is critical to the companys future directly seeing the results of your work.
• International environment
• B2B or permanent contract
• Competitive compensation package (base salary performance-based annual bonus)
• Private medical care
• Sports card
• Car leasing benefits
• Parking in the building
• Company events
• A hybrid type of work
• Strong work-life balance
• Friendly & Supportive Atmosphere
• Support in learning and development further while also providing multi-year career opportunities