Head of Cern's Business Computing Group

vor 2 Wochen

Geneve, Schweiz CERN Vollzeit

**Job Description**:
**Introduction**

Are you an experienced computing engineer with a passion to deliver excellent business software solutions? Are you at ease with product management and agile methods? Are you ready to lead a team of product managers to deliver solutions for a broad set of business capabilities covering nearly every aspect of CERN’s activities?

Do you have the skills to lead a group of nearly 100 specialists, to drive commitment, efficiency, and innovation? Can you build relationships with peers and superiors to influence and effect change? Then join us as we deliver business software solutions that advances CERN's mission. CERN, take part

You will join the Department management team as Leader of CERN’s Business Computing Group, in the FAP Department (Finance and Administrative Processes) where nearly 100 talented specialists deliver information systems for most of CERN’s business functions.

The Business Computing group is a product management driven group that supports clients across the whole Organisation (HR, Finance, Planning, Safety, Security, Purchasing, Logistics, and Accelerator Operations). The type of products under the Group’s responsibility ranges from custom-made solutions for a few users to large and widely integrated systems with 15,000+ users. Hence, leading the BC Group provides numerous perspectives for being in touch with different technologies and business areas.

**Functions**

As Leader of the Business Computing Group, you will:
Product Management
- Lead a team of 5 product managers;
- As portfolio manager, co-ordinate, prioritise and monitor cross product activities;
- Manage the financial resources of the group.

Talent Manager
- Lead a team of section leaders (line managers);
- Anticipate future talent needs, plan and execute new recruitments;
- Nurture a group culture based on relentless improvement, learning and innovation.

Agile Transformation
- Ensure further progress and maturity growth in the implementation of agile practices including the supervision of the agile coaches in the Group.

Technical Expert
- Set direction on the modernisation of lean administration and provide a modern set of supporting IT and ERP tools by working with Enterprise Architect and Product managers to guide strategic orientation and technological choices for the business computing field.
- Provide the user community, peers and management with technical expertise and advice.

**Qualifications**:
Master's degree or PhD or equivalent relevant experience in the field of computer science or a related field.

**Experience**:

- Demonstrated experience in leading development, implementing change and business modernisation using on
- and offshore teams;
- Experience working in lean-agile environments;
- Proven experience in JAVA development and ERP systems;
- Proven track record of positively impacted workplace behaviours.

**Technical competencies**:

- Project management;
- Team management: ability to lead individuals to work together in self-organized high performance teams;
- Knowledge of programming techniques and languages;
- Development of vision and strategy.

**Behavioural competencies**:

- Bringing the best out of people: being approachable and available to team members; promoting team interests; taking time to listen and to consider team members' ideas, opinions and concerns.
- Creating vision and strategic partnerships: building comprehensive road maps to translate the organisational vision to an operational level; defining and sets direction accordingly.
- Leading with strength and credibility: making timely decisions that balance systematic analysis with decisiveness; dealing with difficulties in a timely manner; demonstrating authority and being accountable for actions, decisions and effective functioning of the team.
- Solving problems: assimilating large quantities of information, identifying key issues and formulating conclusions clearly and concisely; recognizing what is essential; discriminating between important and peripheral information and being able to see the whole picture; producing workable and timely solutions that meet requirements.
- Demonstrating flexibility: demonstrating a willingness to accept changing circumstances; supporting initiatives for change Instigating and promoting change as an opportunity for organisational development.

**Language skills**:
Spoken and written English or French: ability to understand and speak the other language in professional contexts. Ability to draw-up technical specifications and/or scientific reports and to make oral presentations in at least one of the two languages.

Additional Information
**Eligibility and closing date**:
**Employment Conditions**

Job grade: 8

Job reference: FAP-2023-89-LD

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