Leiter (m/w/d/x) Head of Strategic Initiatives & Projects Public Sector

Job ID: 751139

Leiter (m/w/d/x) Head of Strategic Initiatives & Projects Public Sector

Berlin

Professional

Regular

Deutsche Telekom Geschäftskunden GmbH

Deutsche Telekom Business Customers GmbH

Whether it's a craft business, a large corporation or a government agency — we support everyone in the decisive steps of DIGITALIZATION. We passionately turn our clients' businesses into our business and develop future-proof solutions TOGETHER with them. What sets us apart? We roll up our sleeves, get involved and MAKE it happen.

Be part of our team! We value diversity and equality, move forward together and promote growth — with the clear goal: Becoming the Leading Digital B2B Telco!

task description

As Head of (Strategic Initiatives & Projects), you will manage personnel and technical staff from a wide range of tasks. They are the point of contact for complex and particularly difficult issues with distinctive decision/determination expertise.

Your main tasks also include:

• You are responsible for selecting new employees, organizing the team, motivating employees, initiating training and development, and promoting talent
• You cascade the overarching strategy into your own area and develop strategies and policy regulations
• You optimize the area of responsibility based on key figures, increase process efficiency and perform tasks as part of budget planning
• You represent work results vis-à-vis the higher level of management
• You are involved in projects
• You manage strategically relevant, cross-divisional projects and initiatives for the public with clear responsibility for structure, prioritization, progress and implementation and ensure the transfer of strategic projects into operational implementation and regular operation
• They create transparency about the progress, dependencies and road blockers of strategic initiatives, evaluate their implications and, based on their own analyses, develop well-founded recommendations for decision and action for public management
• You design and manage strategic future and transformation topics for public — in particular AI and data-based applications, go-to-market initiatives and the development of sales processes, IT and systems — from requirement definition to implementation to adoption in specialist areas
• They form an essential interface to the strategic units at T Business and within the Group as well as to relevant internal and external stakeholders and translate overarching strategic developments into specific fields of action and initiatives for the public

Profil

You have a degree with a focus on economics, business informatics, industrial engineering or a comparable focus or qualification and already have many years of professional experience in the fields of strategy, transformation and business operations. Experience in the public sector is an advantage.

You also have the following knowledge and skills:

• Many years of management experience (personnel and technical), ideally in teams with different levels of experience
• Many years of experience in independently designing, planning and managing strategic and cross-divisional issues as well as in translating strategies into operational implementation
• Excellent ability to take a holistic view and to evaluate complex strategic, operational and organizational relationships in a structured way
• In-depth and extensive knowledge of budget, cost, performance and forecast management as well as in KPI-based business management
• Outstanding experience in traditional and agile forms of cooperation, in particular in managing and managing complex major projects, programs and transformation initiatives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment (e.g. start-up or scale-up)
• Outstanding experience in working in complex corporate structures, in particular with management bodies, central functions and various stakeholders, as well as in an international and intercultural environment
• Distinctive experience in developing new topics, structures and functions as well as transferring them to regular operations, including change management and sustainable integration in specialist areas
• Profound practical experience with AI and LLM-based applications, in particular in the introduction and development of solutions from requirement definition to cooperation with IT units to successful adoption in operational business
• Distinctive analytical skills and experience in data-based preparation of complex issues and preparation of management-appropriate decision templates; practical experience in data analysis, BI and SQL is expected
• Knowledge of business with institutional and public clients as well as a good understanding of complex sales, quotation, calculation and decision-making processes in the public sector are an advantage
• Experience in strategy consulting, in particular with strategy development in the telecommunications and technology environment
• Fluent written and spoken English

Your application can be processed by external service providers in Germany. Applications for jobs outside Deutsche Telekom AG can also be processed by recruiters in other European countries. This also applies to the processing of applications for subsidiaries of Deutsche Telekom AG. For our civil servants, therefore, the following note: You are not required to attach documents relevant to personnel records, in particular civil service assessments, with your application. However, you are free to provide these documents voluntarily.

Severely disabled people are given priority if they are equally qualified.

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Job Benefits

Professional Development

• Training and development initiatives
• Talent promotion programs

Diversity & Inclusion

Priority given to severely disabled people if equally qualified