Specialist / Referent IT (m/f/d) - REF76519I

As Specialist / Referent IT (m/f/diverse) your tasks will include the following activities:

Local IT Management:

• Assisting to ensure high efficiency and high performance of the local IT organization through appropriate competency management together with the local IT manager and in coordination with the Regional Information Officer (RIO) EU1

IT Services & Projects:

• Assist in ensuring the reliability, efficiency and quality of all local IT services and approved IT projects (partial responsibility)
• Support in ensuring, coordinating, providing and introducing all IT services, IT activities and IT projects at the site. This includes IT infrastructure (clients, servers, etc.), engineering, manufacturing, business applications and cybersecurity

IT Strategy:

• Working on the implementation of the IT strategy and IT goals in compliance with all standards and guidelines
• Understanding requirements of local business stakeholders and ensures their implementation based on existing standard solutions
• Assisting in implementing reliable and robust local solutions to support local processes where no standard is available
• Supporting the harmonization of various business requirements

Budget & Cost:

• Supporting the local IT budget
• Supporting the alignment of the local IT budget with the goals and framework conditions of IT controlling, location controlling and the RIO
• Assisting with local IT cost control and forecasting

Local Business/ Management: 

• Acts as single point of contact (SPOC) and represents IT towards location management
• Being the Local IT Manager (LITM) representative in the extended central management team at the site
• Assisting in providing transparency to the Central Management Team (CMT) through regular communication on IT projects (portfolio and roadmap) and IT activities, supporting and consulting the location in planning and execution of IT projects and services
• Assisting with local IT support of business processes and risk management at the site

Reporting:

• Driving local IT business based on local/operational IT reports and KPIs
• Providing and presenting reports as defined/required by RIO and Local Management on regular basis (KPIs, Balanced Scorecards, HC report, financial reportings, etc.)

Cyber Security:

• Support of vulnerability management at the site together with the LITM or Information Secruitiy Adviser (ISA) and Regional Information Security Adviser (RISM) EU1
• Ensuring user trainings and awareness
• Supporting all IT related audits (Corp. Audit, ISO, OEM Audits, TISAX, Location Reviews, etc.)

• Academic degree (Bachelor or Master) in Computer Science or similar
• First experience in IT, preferable in the automotive industry
• Project management skills preferred
• Very good German and English language skills (written and spoken)
• Intercultural and international experience preferred

Applications from severely handicapped people are welcome.

The well-being of our employees is important to us. That's why we offer exciting career prospects and support you in achieving a good work-life balance with additional benefits such as:

• Training opportunities
• Mobile and flexible working models
• Sabbaticals
• and much more ...

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Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging are important to us and make our company strong and successful. We offer equal opportunities to everyone - regardless of age, gender, nationality, cultural background, disability, religion, ideology or sexual orientation.

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Continental develops pioneering technologies and services for sustainable and connected mobility of people and their goods. Founded in 1871, the technology company offers safe, efficient, intelligent and affordable solutions for vehicles, machines, traffic and transportation. In 2022, Continental generated sales of €39.4 billion and currently employs around 200,000 people in 57 countries and markets.

The Automotive group sector comprises technologies for passive safety, brake, chassis, motion and motion control systems. Innovative solutions for assisted and automated driving, display and operating technologies, as well as audio and camera solutions for the vehicle interior, are also part of the portfolio, as is intelligent information and communication technology for the mobility services of fleet operators and commercial vehicle manufacturers. Comprehensive activities relating to connectivity technologies, vehicle electronics and high-performance computers round off the range of products and services.