Head of IT Business Domain

HARTING stands for strong connections – across the globe. As one of the leading international suppliers of industrial connectivity, we are connecting customers to their digital future. And as an employer? We connect around 6,000 people at our headquarter in Espelkamp and at locations worldwide. Here you’ll find great colleagues, as well as ever new opportunities and innovations revolving around IoT and artificial intelligence.

In everything we do, we remain true to our roots: as a regionally connected family business that always stays firmly grounded in spite of our stellar high-tech. Here’s to your unique future with us:
Yours!

• Lead and develop the IT Business Domain department within the overall IT Target Operating Model.
• Establish the IT Business Domain as the central business-facing IT function for domain-related business-IT topics.
• Define and continuously improve the operating model, collaboration principles, governance routines and interfaces of the IT Business Domain.
• Ensure clear roles, responsibilities and decision rights across IT Business Domain Leads, IT Domain Project Managers and IT Domain Solution Architects.
• Provide leadership, coaching and direction to the IT Business Domain organization.
• Foster a culture of ownership, transparency, business orientation, collaboration and continuous improvement.

• Act as senior IT partner for business leadership on strategic, cross-domain and high-impact IT topics.
• Ensure that business strategies and priorities are translated into coherent IT domain roadmaps.
• Drive alignment between business demand, IT strategy, enterprise architecture, portfolio planning, budget and delivery capacity.
• Ensure that business stakeholders have a clear and structured interface into IT.
• Strengthen IT’s role as a business enabler and value contributor.
• Support business and IT leadership in understanding dependencies, trade-offs, risks and investment priorities.

• Oversee the domain roadmaps across all IT Business Domains.
• Ensure consistent demand intake, structuring, evaluation and prioritization across domains.
• Establish transparency on business value, urgency, dependencies, risks, capacity needs and architectural implications.
• Ensure that IT investments are aligned with business priorities and HARTING’s overall IT strategy.
• Drive cross-domain prioritization and prepare decision proposals for IT and business governance bodies.
• Resolve or elevate priority conflicts, resource constraints and cross-domain dependencies.
• Ensure that roadmaps remain realistic, value-oriented and aligned with available delivery capabilities.

• Define and operate governance mechanisms for domain-related IT demand, roadmap planning, project initiation and decision-making.
• Ensure that domain-related decisions are prepared in a structured, transparent and decision-ready manner.
• Drive consistency in portfolio management, project initiation, architecture alignment and business value assessment.
• Ensure compliance with IT governance, enterprise architecture, security, data governance, compliance and financial steering standards.
• Represent the IT Business Domain function in relevant IT leadership, portfolio and governance forums.
• Ensure that escalations are raised with clear options, impact assessments and recommendations.

• Coordinate dependencies and priorities across all business domains.
• Ensure alignment between domain roadmaps and shared enterprise platforms, especially SAP, CRM, PLM, data, integration, infrastructure and security.
• Identify cross-domain synergies, duplication, conflicts and…