Head of Department Application Management & Digitalization

Deutscher Caritasverband e.V.

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In this role, you will be responsible for the strategic evolution of application landscapes and digitalization, manage projects, and promote collaboration across hospital locations in Saarland.

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Your role in the team

  • As Head of Department (m/f/d) Application Management & Digitalization, you will be responsible for the professional and organizational development of the Application Management & Digitalization department, focusing on the areas: Applications, Interfaces & Interoperability, Digitalization & Processes.
  • Your responsibilities include, in particular: leading and developing the department's staff, ensuring the stable and economical operation of specialized applications, further developing the application landscape and integration platforms, managing digitization, optimization, and transformation projects, ensuring standards, architecture guidelines, and compliance requirements, resource, budget, and capacity planning within the department, managing external service providers and manufacturers, and promoting cross-location collaboration within the corporate group.
  • As Department Head (m/f/d) Hospitals Saarland, you act as the strategic IT contact person (m/f/d) for the hospital locations in Saarland.
  • In this role, you will primarily undertake the following tasks: close collaboration with hospital management, directorates, and specialist departments; capturing, assessing, and prioritizing IT requirements; developing and aligning a sector-specific IT roadmap; identifying digitalization and innovation potentials; supporting KHZG, digitalization, and transformation projects; translating technical requirements into concrete IT initiatives; serving as an escalation point for cross-sector IT issues; representing the hospitals' requirements to the central IT department.

Our expectations of you

Education

  • Successfully completed studies in Computer Science, Business Informatics, Medical Informatics, Health Economics, or a comparable qualification.

Qualifications

  • Knowledge in hospital IT, healthcare IT, or clinical processes is advantageous.
  • Strong communication and moderation skills.
  • Strategic thinking as well as a structured and solution-oriented way of working.
  • High customer and service orientation.
  • Willingness to collaborate across locations and actively contribute to the charitable mission.

Experience

  • Several years of professional experience in a responsible position in the IT environment.
  • Ideally leadership experience as well as experience in managing projects and change initiatives.
  • Experience in application management, process management, or digitalization projects.

What we offer

  • A responsible leadership position with significant scope for shaping and influence.
  • The opportunity to significantly influence the future IT and digitization strategy of our hospital locations.
  • Employment in a modern and continuously evolving central IT department.
  • Exciting and innovative digitization projects in healthcare.
  • An attractive tariff-based salary (cts-AVR) commensurate with the responsibility and significance of the position, as well as additional retirement benefits and other social advantages.
  • Individual training and development opportunities.
  • Flexible working hours and options for remote work.
  • Employee benefits within the cts network, e.g., bike leasing or subsidy for the Deutschlandticket.
  • Various support options for childcare.

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Job locations

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  • Location Saarbrücken
    Saarland, Germany

About your employer

The German Caritas Association is the welfare association of the Catholic Church and the umbrella organization of the social welfare sector. The Federal Centre coordinates the work of the Association and its political representation, thus committed to a fair and solidarity society.

Company type
Established Company
Work model
Onsite, Hybrid
Industry
Healthcare, Social Sector

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Head of Department Application Management & Digitalization

Deutscher Caritasverband e.V.