IT Strategy Manager/Enterprise Architect (m/f/d)

IT Strategy Manager/Enterprise Architect (m/f/d)

Country: Germany

Department: Corporate Functions

Job ID: 44429

Professional | Permanent | Full-time | Hybrid

Our Corporate Functions teams make sure everything at Grünenthal runs smoothly by bringing together people with a wide range of skills – from experts in finance, IT, HR, law and compliance through to business strategists and creative media minds. If you’re a great collaborator and a strong communicator, you’ll feel right at home here. Join our team and join forces with colleagues across our business to maximise our company’s positive impact on patients and their families.

What the job looks like
Each day you’ll enjoy a variety of challenges, such as:

• Shape Grünenthal’s IT strategy by driving key strategic initiatives transforming the IT operating model and architecture management
• Prepare and present strategic IT topics to C-Level and manage senior leadership stakeholders to buy into IT initiatives
• Define and align architecture specifications (e.g., data architecture, application architecture, technical architecture) for the enterprise, aligned with business goals, IT strategy and enterprise architecture standards
• Shape and execute enterprise architecture processes such as application portfolio management or technology risk management
• Establish and maintain architecture standards, policies and procedures to keep in control of the enterprise architecture
• Provide architecture direction, guidance and vision to architect group and technical staff

What you’ll bring to the table
To make the most of this role and truly thrive, you should have:

• Professional degree in business informatics, computer science, engineering or economics
• 5+ years’ experience as IT strategy consultant and/or enterprise architect with strategic focus
• Broad IT knowledge, including technologies, frameworks, and IT management processes (IT4IT, TOGAF, ITIL)
• Strong communication, presentation, and facilitation skills; highly independent and stress-resistant; excellent networking abilities
• Business fluent in English and German; strong organizational and project management skills, including agile methodologies

Grünenthal is a global leader in pain management and related diseases. As a science-based, fully-integrated pharmaceutical company, we have a long track record of bringing innovative treatments and state-of-the-art technologies to patients worldwide. Our purpose is to change lives for the better – and innovation is our passion. We are focusing all of our activities and efforts on working towards our vision of a world free of pain.

Grünenthal is headquartered in Aachen, Germany, and has affiliates in 27 countries across Europe, Latin America and the US. Our products are available in approx. 100 countries. In 2023, Grünenthal employed around 4,400 people and achieved revenues of € 1.8bn.