Head of Business IT Energy Networks

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E.ON is one of the strongest operators of European energy networks and energy-related infrastructure, as well as a provider of advanced customer solutions for more than 50 million customers. With a total of over 75,000 employees we are represented in 15 countries. By focusing on two sustainable growth areas and with the acquisition of innogy, we are ideally positioned to drive the energy transition in Germany and Europe. At E.ON diversity matters. We welcome all people and are convinced that differences make us stronger. Become part of our inclusive and diverse company culture!





About the position
As Head of Business IT Energy Networks you will have a huge impact in driving the digital transformation and manage our IT foundation within Energy Networks. To your help you will have a team of 130 highly motivated people, both employees (7 direct reporting) and consultants.

You will be a part of the management team of Business IT, a unit with responsibility for IT in the Nordic countries. You will also be part of the leadership team Digital and Business transformation within Energy Networks. You will, together with great colleagues, maintain, operate and modernize our IT foundation to drive our digital transformation which is the most important success factor for E.ONs future. You will also have close collaboration with the E.ON Digital Technology (EDT) team within E.ON Group and be a part of the international EDT Energy Networks management team to optimize and scale IT solutions throughout the E.ON Group.

Examples of your responsibilities:

* IT application management from a life cycle perspective, operations, support, and development for the Nordic Energy Networks business
* Maintenance and development of existing system landscape
* Modernization and cloudification of our IT legacy
* IT performance and IT budget management
* IT security and compliance
* Optimizing and scaling group-wide IT solutions, working closely together with IT colleagues throughout the E.ON Group
* Driving digital transformation throughout our businesses, with IT and businesses working closely together
* Developing our IT organization to be even more customer oriented, agile, performance driven and cooperative with increased DevOps thinking

You will report to Director of Business IT, Urban Schill. Urban's leadership is characterized by performance, commitment, curiosity, and trust. He loves to be challenged and looks forward to sharing your ideas, preferably ones that haven't been tried before. He will give you a high level of freedom to build and develop your area of responsibility, and that you will lead with commitment and a genuine will to make a difference for our customers and businesses. But last and not least, Urban values being able to laugh and have fun together along the way.

About you
To be successful in the role you need experience of leading and developing a large IT organization on a digital transformation journey in cooperation with many stakeholders. You also need to have a technical competence within IT/digital and experience in transforming a legacy IT-landscape into modern digital solutions. Since you will have accountability for a significant IT budget, you have prior experience of handling a large IT investment portfolio and delivering projects and operations with high focus on financial targets.
We are looking for you who want to drive change and we are convinced that innovation comes from curiosity and courage. We therefore hope that you are curious, creative, and have an open attitude to change. We are also convinced that action, not just words, brings success. Therefore, we hope that you are a reliable person and through your commitment and ability to act, make things happen. 
To thrive in this position, you need to have a natural curiosity for building personal relations throughout our organization, enabling us to be better together, both IT and the business together in the Nordics as well as IT within the E.ON Group.

The role is in Malmö, and we believe that you can reliably commute or relocate as a local presence to be successful in the role. If you are interested, please apply by 27/03/2023.

Do you have questions?
For further information please contact:
Urban Schill
Director of Business IT
+46 705870803

Kerstin Lindahl
Recruiter  
+46722256805
If you have questions related to the unions, please contact:
Hanna Rosén, Unionen, +46 705 705254
Carl-Johan Johansson, Akademikerna, +46 702 163611
Michael Andersson, Ledarna, +46 705 250129

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