Job
- Level
- Senior
- Location
- St. Pölten
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Job Field
- IT, Project, System
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Salary
- from 84.000 € gross/year
Job Summary
In this role, you shape digital transformation by strategically leading IT departments, working on IT governance, and managing national innovations while ensuring compliance with legal requirements.
Your role in the team
- As Chief Information Officer (CIO), you are responsible for the strategic direction and further development of the entire IT and digitalization division within the NÖKU Group.
- In this newly created role, you will report directly to the COO and take on the professional, coordinating, budgetary, and above all strategic leadership of the department heads or staff unit heads for IT and EDV services, Ticketing Studio, Digital Studio, as well as Data Protection/ISO.
- Together with your managers, you will be responsible for an area with a total of approximately 20 employees.
- As a sparring partner to the management, you will shape the digital transformation of the group and ensure a unified, future-proof IT and digitalization foundation across all 15 subsidiaries.
- Implementation and further development of the IT strategy of the NÖKU Group, including roadmap and annual planning.
- Professional, coordinating, budgetary, and above all strategic management of the IT and IT Services departments, Ticketing Studio, Digital Studio, and the Data Protection/ISO staff unit.
- Coordination of the specialist departments with each other as well as with the 15 subsidiaries and their management teams.
- Expansion and chairmanship of the company-wide IT governance.
- Management of the IT portfolio, investments, and budgets of the four areas.
- Management of NÖKU group-wide projects and programs.
- Responsibility for enterprise, data, and technology architecture (e.g., standards, system roles, data sovereignty, system consolidation).
- Ensuring a stable, secure, and cost-effective IT and digitalization operation, including through service catalog, service levels for the business units, management of external service providers, as well as license and contract management.
- Implementation of the security baseline and business continuity management in collaboration with information security (CISO).
- Responsibility for compliance with regulatory requirements such as GDPR and EU AI Act in the IT and digitalization sector.
- Development and management of the deployment of AI and data-driven applications within the group, for example in visitor services, ticketing, and digital offerings.
- Supporting the change process, aligning the four specialist departments under a unified leadership line, including communication and engagement of the operations.
- Consulting for the executive management (NÖKU-Holding and subsidiaries).
- Representation of IT and digitization initiatives towards all internal and external stakeholders.
- Responsible: The person in charge in your area of activity.
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Our expectations of you
Education
- Completed degree (Computer Science, Business Informatics, Business Administration, or comparable).
Qualifications
- Proven success in transformation initiatives (e.g., transitioning decentralized IT landscapes into a managed group model).
- Expertise in relevant areas: infrastructure and workplace, ticketing and CRM systems, digital products/web, and data protection (GDPR).
- In-depth understanding of IT governance, enterprise architecture, service management, and information security.
- Knowledge of regulatory requirements (GDPR, EU AI Act).
- Strong strategic competence as well as high communication and leadership skills.
- High decision-making and implementation competence.
- Stakeholder competence in relation to the management of our subsidiaries.
- Very good German and good English skills.
- Interest in or affinity for art and culture.
- Knowledge of cultural institutions is desirable.
Experience
- Several years of leadership experience in an IT management role, ideally in a holding, corporate, or matrix organization with multiple subsidiaries.
- Excellent project and program management skills, as well as experience in managing multiple initiatives across various organizational units.
- Experience in managing multiple teams or department heads.
- Experience in the practical application of AI and new technologies, combined with the ability to implement standards across four areas and 15 companies.
- Experience in the public or publicly funded environment (procurement law, communication with owners and audit offices) is an advantage.
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What we offer
- A newly created leadership position directly under the executive management, with personnel, budget, and strategic responsibilities for the four specified sub-areas, based on a clear mandate from the IT strategy process.
- Creative freedom in one of Austria's most diverse cultural landscapes with 15 companies under one roof.
- A functioning IT and digitalization organization as a starting point, not a rebuild.
- Flexible working hours as well as the possibility of remote work.
- Travel expense reimbursement for public transportation from home to workplace.
- Lunch subsidy in the form of vouchers for local restaurants as well as access to the Landhauskantine.
- Exciting company events with the entire NÖKU group.
- Individual, needs-based training and development opportunities to promote your professional and personal competencies.
- Seminars and workshops to promote mental and physical health.
- Work in a meaningful environment with high artistic, scientific, and societal relevance in the cultural land of Lower Austria.
- A permanent position with long-term prospects.
- A compensation package commensurate with your qualifications and professional experience, with an annual gross salary of at least EUR 84,000.00 on a full-time basis (all-in agreement for senior executives).
- Depending on qualifications and experience, there is a willingness to pay above the standard rate.
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About Your Employer
NÖ Kulturwirtschaft GmbH
Sankt Pölten
The NÖKU (kurz for Niederösterreich Kulturwirtschaft GesmbH) Holding Company and Cultural Management Organization unites 12 subsidiaries with nearly 30 art and cultural brands in the exhibition and event sector, which are among the most significant in Lower Austria.
Description
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Public Service, Unions, Sports, Leisure
Chief Information Officer
- Salary
- from 84.000 € gross/yearEstimated net salary based on the gross salary in the job ad.from 53.887 € net/year
- Location
- St. Pölten
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
