Director CIO office (Vattenfall IT)

Director CIO office (Vattenfall IT) Amsterdam, Berlin, Hamburg, Gliwice, Katowice, Kolding, and Stockholm.
Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 20.000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We now want to make fossil-free living possible within one generation. To be able to reach this ambitious goal we are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission. In this position you will be working within the Vattenfall IT organization based in Amsterdam, Berlin, Gliwice, Katowice, Kolding, and Stockholm.
Vattenfall IT is the internal provider of IT infrastructure services for the entire Vattenfall Group and we are now looking for the right candidate to join us as Director CIO Office.


Main purpose of this role:
Director CIO Office oversees functions such as IT strategy, governance, performance management, compliance and the definition of IT ways of working (for example, common methodologies, processes). The position focuses on ensuring that the IT organization "does the right things" through strategy, governance, instructions as well as "doing things right" through organizational, operational model development, process management frameworks, compliance framework and performance management. The Director CIO Office also ensure sufficient communication in the IT organization.


Key Responsibilities:
Your key responsibilities will include:
• Development and maintenance of IT policies, procedures, methodologies, and governance — as well as performance management frameworks and metrics.
• IT process governance and framework and ensure implementation and follow up of process performance.
• Create an IT compliance risk assessment framework and periodically assess the regulatory, commercial and organizational, inherent and residual IT compliance risks.
• Identify the associated IT compliance control gaps and oversee the documentation, implementation and testing of the entire IT compliance control portfolio.
• Develop and direct IT compliance control monitoring programs to ensure IT compliance-related risks are managed to the appropriate level of acceptable residual risk.
• Responsible for development and maintenance of the IT strategy (coordination with Architecture, Vendor and Sourcing strategies)
• Establish and implement continuous-improvement programs for the IT organization.
• Stays current with developments in new market trends and the leadership of enterprise IT.
• Responsibility for IT quality management.
• Coordination of Communication within the IT department.
• Drive and facilitate effective collaboration and communications between the IT organization and the user and customer communities.
• Manage the communication for IT


We expect you have:
• Relevant University degree.
• 8-10 years of direct or indirect managerial experience in an international, complex organization with a clear business customer centric approach.
• Successful track record in leading through managers by vision, foster cooperation and achieving results.
• A Value driven management approach. You as a manager act as a role model connected to our leadership criteria’s, Clear, Visible & Courageous and you support and drive the right behaviors connected to our principles Positive Open Active Safety.
• High collaboration skills ensuring trustful and effectiveness professional relationship.
• Excellent communications & cross cultural skills.


Location: Amsterdam, Berlin, Hamburg, Gliwice, Katowice, Kolding, and Stockholm.


We welcome your application in English, including CV and cover letter as soon as possible, please do not wait until the last day. Applications will be handled continuously throughout the application period.
Application period ends on 10th of April 2022.


More Information
For information about the position please contact Teri-Anne Brink teri-anne.brink@vattenfall.com
In Sweden, the union representatives are Sofi Wadström (Akademikerna), Inger Strandberg (Unionen), Christer Gustafsson (Ledarna), Lennart Bengtsson (SEKO). They may all be reached via Vattenfalls switchboard +46 (0)8-739 50 00.
At Vattenfall, we are convinced that striving for diversity helps building a more profitable efficient and attractive company. Therefore we seek a harmonious balance of employees in terms of gender, age, and ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
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