Senior IT Strategy Manager

Your role

• Lead the development, refinement, and execution of the Diagnostics IT strategy, translating business priorities and technology trends into strategic initiatives, roadmaps, and innovation opportunities.
• Own short-cycle strategic assessments, typically spanning several weeks, to evaluate business needs, technology options, and solution alternatives across CRM, service, enterprise platforms, digital capabilities, AI, and automation.
• Frame complex, ambiguous questions; lead fact-based analyses; and deliver clear recommendations supported by evaluation criteria, business cases, and decision frameworks.
• Shape the evolution of the IT target operating model, including capabilities, roles, governance, sourcing, delivery footprint, and organizational interfaces.
• Drive strategic measures from concept through implementation, including cost optimization, operating model improvement, capability development, and innovation.
• Build alignment with senior business and IT leaders, enterprise architecture, finance, procurement, and external partners on requirements, options, and outcomes.
• Develop concise, management-ready decision materials and present complex strategic and technology topics to senior stakeholders and governance bodies.
• Lead cross-functional workstreams and coordinate internal and external experts, ensuring high-quality analysis, clear deliverables, disciplined execution, and effective stakeholder engagement.
• Strengthen IT strategy methods, templates, market intelligence, and repeatable assessment approaches, promoting structured problem solving and measurable value realization.

Your expertise

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience is required; a degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field is preferred.
• 5-8+ years of experience in IT strategy, technology consulting, enterprise transformation, operating model design, or a comparable strategic IT role in a complex enterprise environment.
• Proven experience structuring and delivering strategic assessments, technology or platform evaluations, business cases, or transformation initiatives with tangible recommendations.
• Strong understanding of enterprise IT landscapes, technology platforms, operating models, sourcing approaches, and the interaction between business processes, applications, data, and infrastructure.
• Strong analytical and conceptual problem-solving skills, with the ability to break down ambiguous questions, synthesize quantitative and qualitative information, and develop fact-based conclusions.
• Experience with target operating model design, organizational or capability development, cost optimization, innovation management, or strategic roadmap development is preferred.
• Ability to manage defined workstreams or smaller strategic projects independently, while effectively involving subject-matter experts and escalating key decisions when required.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to create clear executive narratives and communicate complex topics to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build alignment across business, IT, and external partners in a global and cross-functional environment.
• Experience in consulting-style working methods, including hypothesis-driven analysis, structured problem solving, market research, and development of management-ready deliverables, is preferred.

A successful candidate must be able to work with controlled technology in accordance with US export control law.