Job
- Level
- Lead
- Location
- Munich
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Job Field
- IT, Project, System
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
Job Summary
In this role, you shape the digitalization and infrastructure of the Fraunhofer Society, develop unified ERP and IT architectures, and drive efficiency through process digitalization and AI initiatives.
Your role in the team
- The Executive Board, working as a collegial body coordinated by the President, bears overall responsibility for the Fraunhofer Society as a registered association.
- As a board member, we are seeking an entrepreneurial-minded, character- and decision-driven personality with strong leadership, social, and implementation skills who does not see Digitalisierung, Prozessmanagement, and Infrastrukturen as administrative functions but as strategic areas for shaping the future viability of the entire Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft.
- Designing and ensuring a shared ERP and IT architecture for a decentralized organization like the Fraunhofer Society, while maintaining the entrepreneurial flexibility of its decentralized units, is one of the most complex and effective management tasks within the organization.
- The board member plays a key role in this, as they significantly shape the strategic direction of this architecture, the organization-wide governance, as well as the acceptance and implementation of shared standards.
- The board member for 'Digitalization and Infrastructures' oversees the IuK management of the Fraunhofer Society and is responsible for the digitalization strategy at the corporate level, with a focus on the headquarters and the institutes of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft.
- In this way, you are responsible for the company's digital core architecture, which includes, among other things, the management and further development of the organization-wide ERP system, strategic IT portfolio management for the central IT services, as well as information/cybersecurity.
- The board member additionally bears responsibility for business process management and is thus a key driver of organization-wide efficiency initiatives, which are advanced through the management of the central Business Process Management, the digitalization of business processes, as well as the provision of AI platforms and the development and deployment of AI applications (including ensuring AI security).
- Infrastructures at the Fraunhofer Society include the development and reinstallation of institute buildings, laboratory equipment, as well as hardware and software in the IT sector.
- The board member thus creates the infrastructural prerequisites for research, innovation, and transfer at the Fraunhofer Institutes.
- In this context, the infrastructure strategy, the central budgeting, prioritization and oversight of all construction projects, as well as the procurement strategy and central purchasing, fall under the responsibility of the board member.
- Furthermore, the board member actively promotes the sustainability agenda of the Fraunhofer Society and is responsible for energy and climate management.
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Our expectations of you
Education
- The position requires a completed, relevant university degree in a field suitable for the department, preferably in digitalization/informatics or engineering sciences, as well as extensive leadership experience - ideally in a board or executive management role within a complex, decentralized, and/or research-oriented organization or company.
Qualifications
- Your leadership qualities are characterized by strong communication, implementation, and decision-making skills, combined with a high level of integrity and trustworthiness.
- With foresight and a focus on the essentials, you act in a dialogue-, team-, and results-oriented manner.
- You have a robust network and maintain trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Fluent German and English skills, high willingness to travel, and flexibility complete your profile.
Experience
- They have relevant experience in managing large digitalization and ERP (transformation) programs, as well as a solid understanding of the strategic and operational potentials and risks of artificial intelligence.
- You have experience in managing research construction or comparable infrastructure projects as well as in strategic procurement and supply chain management.
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What we offer
- The Fraunhofer Society values gender equality in the workplace and promotes the advancement of women into leadership positions.
- People with severe disabilities will be given preference in hiring if they are equally qualified.
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About Your Employer
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
The Fraunhofer Society is the largest organization for applied research in Europe. We align our research fields with people's needs: health, safety, communication, mobility, energy and the environment. We are creative and design technology. We design products, improve processes and open up new avenues.
Description
- Company Size
- 250+ Employees
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Science, Research
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Board Member for Digitalization and Infrastructure
- Location
- Munich
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
