Head of IT Strategy (all genders welcome)

Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germanythyssenkrupp AG


Type of contract:Full-time, Permanent
Experience level:Professionals
Remote work:Hybrid
Job field:IT
Status:Ongoing recruitment, entry date flexible
Posting date:2025/05/07
Job number:DE_RS_16320
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https://jobs.thyssenkrupp.com/en/job/Head-of-IT-Strategy-all-genders-welcome-Essen?id=929011

Your responsibilities

Key responsibilities:

  • Enterprise IT Strategy Development: Define and drive a comprehensive IT strategy that aligns with business objectives, digital ambitions, and financial targets.
  • Investment & Portfolio Governance: Establish strategic governance models to guide IT investments, enabling data-driven portfolio decisions and maximizing value creation.
  • Governance Frameworks & Compliance: Design and oversee IT policies, compliance controls, and risk governance mechanisms that enhance operational resilience.
  • Technology Operating Model Leadership: Lead the evolution of the IT operating model, balancing centralized governance with business unit flexibility.
  • Performance Management: Develop and implement KPI frameworks and dashboards to track strategic impact, IT maturity, and value realization.

Strategic Impact:

  • Business-Driven IT Governance: Shift governance from a controlling role to a strategic enabler of business innovation and agility.
  • Enterprise-Wide Strategic Alignment: Ensure that all IT initiatives, investments, and operating models are strategically integrated across segments.
  • Informed Decision-Making: Introduce structured steering committees and architecture boards to ensure informed, enterprise-wide prioritization.
  • Risk Reduction & Policy Coherence: Promote standardization and compliance to reduce operational inconsistencies and IT-related risks.

Your profile

We are seeking a visionary and conceptual thinker, not just an executor. The ideal candidate brings:

  • A university degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business IT, or a related field.
  • Several years of experience in defining and operationalizing enterprise-wide IT strategies, not just managing project portfolios or agile transformations.
  • Strong background in IT governance models, enterprise architecture alignment, and policy design.
  • A consultative, structured approach with the ability to engage at board level and challenge business priorities from a strategic IT perspective.
  • Sound understanding of strategic investment governance and long-term IT capability building.
  • Proven success as an agile Product Owner, Flight Levels Architect, or OKR Champion.
  • Confident and persuasive communication across hierarchies, including top management levels.

Your benefits

  • An attractive compensation package commensurate with the importance of the job, comprising a fixed salary, a performance bonus and a long-term incentive
  • A modern, flexible company pension plan with high employer contributions that utilizes the opportunities of the capital market (while providing guaranteed minimum interest)
  • A good work-life balance due to flexible working time models and the possibility to work from home
  • Free parking on the company premises / subsidized parking in the immediate vicinity of the workplace
  • Good public transport connections
  • Regular healthcare offers through our company physicians / Medical Center, e.g. skin cancer screening, flu vaccinations
  • In-company child daycare center on the company premises
  • An extensive range of training courses, e.g. via the thyssenkrupp Academy and the Group's further training center at Haus Rheinberg

Collegial cooperation and respect in our dealings with one another - that's what you'll find at our company for over 200 years. If this is as important to you as it is to us, then apply now!

Contact

thyssenkrupp Services GmbH

Verena Hinse

HR Business Partner

Tel.: +49 1724116216

We kindly ask staffing and recruitment agencies to refrain from submitting inquiries regarding this position.

Important to us

Health & Safety

Highest health & safety standards and a wide range of health promotion and healthcare activities.

Highest health & safety standards and a wide range of health promotion and healthcare activities.

We value diversity

We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications, irrespective of gender, nationality, ethnic and social background, religion and beliefs, disability, age, or sexual orientation and identity.

Company

The Head of IT Strategy has a pivotal leadership position within the newly established CIO Office. The role is responsible for defining, shaping, and institutionalizing the strategic IT direction for the enterprise. Rather than executing isolated transformation initiatives, this position focuses on creating a long-term IT strategy and governance framework that enables sustainable, scalable, and business-aligned growth across the entire group.

From receiving your documents to acceptance: the application process

Step 1

Online application

Have you found an interesting vacancy? Then apply online. You won’t need more than 10 minutes. The entire application process – from initial contact to response – usually takes between four and six weeks.

Notes on application

You will have submitted your online application to thyssenkrupp in no time! As long as the position is available on our career page, you have the opportunity to apply.

We have adapted the application process to the current situation and conduct our interviews by video (not in the U.S.), telephone and also personally - in compliance with the applicable and necessary distance and hygienic rules. You will receive detailed information on this topic from our recruiting experts during the application process, while you can find general information and application tips here finden.

Further information about thyssenkrupp, our products and locations can be found directly on the company website.

We wish you every success with your application and stay healthy!

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Because together we dare to do something new and take things into our own hands.

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