Executive Director IT, Business Relationship Manager

TL;DR

Executive Director IT, Business Relationship Manager (Business Partner): Building business-IT strategy and aligning IT roadmaps to business initiatives with an accent on service management, risk management, and trusted-advisor stakeholder relationship management. Focus on leading large complex IT initiatives, owning IT budget & compliance (GDPR, SOX), and overseeing ERP/engineering/sales enablement support teams.

Location: Stuttgart, Germany

Company

hirify.global is a global industrial company providing highly engineered processing equipment and solutions.

What you will do

• Establish and maintain strategic relationships with key business stakeholders and represent business priorities to IT.
• Develop business-IT strategy and align IT roadmap to enable short- and long-term business goals.
• Lead planning and execution of initiatives that enable business teams through effective technology use.
• Manage business demands by setting priorities with business leaders and coordinating with Applications teams for Build and Run.
• Partner with business to evaluate, build business cases, and implement new technologies (including Digital, Industry 4.0, IoT solutions).
• Own IT budget and compliance (GDPR, SOX) and manage a team across regional site managers, project managers, business analysts, and developers.

Requirements

• 15+ years of internal/external IT experience and 10+ years in IT management, business analysis, consulting, process engineering, or solutions management.
• Experience leading large, complex projects and/or business/IT consulting/management roles.
• Proven experience implementing and supporting ERP and CRM/technical support teams (e.g., SAP, IFS, Navision, Mapics, Salesforce).
• Experience implementing and leading engineering and technical support teams (e.g., SolidWorks, AutoCad, Plant3D).
• German and English language required; ability to communicate clearly, negotiate, listen, mitigate conflict, and build alliances.
• Ability to work autonomously.

Culture & Benefits

• Global, matrixed organization with cross-functional collaboration across corporate teams.
• Focus on compliance and risk management across IT initiatives (GDPR, SOX).
• Leadership role overseeing regional and project delivery teams.

Hiring process

• Interviews focused on business-IT alignment, stakeholder management, and leadership experience.
• Discussion of experience with ERP/CRM, service management, and compliance ownership.