(Senior) Manager IT Practice (m/f/d)

AURELIUS’ Task Force is a close-knit team of advisors with deep functional expertise and long-standing management experience. They support value generation in portfolio companies through effective and hands-on project and change management in the areas of Procurement, Operations, Sales/Marketing, IT and Finance.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate large scale IT programs e.g., IT Carve-out, IT Transformation, ERP modernization as part of the Project Management Office
• Manage project status, key tasks and risks to ensure program success
• As part of an IT expert team execute IT due diligence on potential large size target companies
• Create red-flag reports, draft carve-out scenarios and estimate associated costs
• Coach business and IT stakeholder of the portfolio companies to understand standard IT terms and processes as well as project methodology, roles, and deliverables
• Analyse poorly defined problems, moderate solution finding process and suggest solution alternatives

Qualifications required

• You are an experienced IT all-rounder with knowledge in several IT areas e.g., IT Strategy and Governance, application and infrastructure management, service delivery or IT-security
• Successfully completed studies in computer science, natural sciences, engineering, or economics
• At least 5 years of relevant professional experience, ideally in the context of an IT consulting, IT company or as IT Lead in the Industry
• Experience in IT projects management in the field of IT carve-out, M&A, IT transformation or development of IT landscapes or applications as stream lead or sub-project lead
• You work in a consulting-oriented manner and able to use your broad knowledge in a wide variety of situations
• Excellent communication combined with strong analytical skills
• Entrepreneurial thinking and acting, implementation strength and business/commercial acumen
• Ability to travel regularly
• Fluent in English, other language skills are welcome

Our offer

• An attractive and performance-related remuneration package
• The opportunity to implement your own ideas and create real entrepreneurial added value
• Flat hierarchy with very fast decision making
• End-to-end view of the portfolio companies through their Aurelius lifecycle from due diligence to divestment
• Dynamic career development in a very successful and rapidly growing investment company
• Flexible place of work in a country in which an AURELIUS location is represented