Regional Information Officer North America

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Lead and govern end-to-end Information Technology for the North America region, ensuring secure, resilient, compliant, and cost-effective technology services that enable AUMOVIO’s business strategy and operational performance across a large multi-site footprint (plants, engineering, office/sales sites, and shared services). This role steers regional IT execution in alignment with global standards while representing regional needs, driving harmonization and transformation, and ensuring audit readiness and cyber risk reduction. The position is a key business partner to BA management and site leadership, accountable for service quality, continuity, financial efficiency (OPEX/CAPEX), supplier performance (internal or external), and capability building across the regional IT community (especially critical in the context of AUMOVIO operating as an independent, publicly listed company).

Core Responsibilities:

• Regional IT Strategy & Execution: Translate Central IT strategy into a regional roadmap (24–36 months); set priorities, sequencing, and outcomes; ensure alignment to business strategy, plant/engineering needs, and the “independent company” operating model; steer regional transformation and harmonization initiatives across sites.
• IT Governance, Standards, and Operating Model: Run regional governance (decision forums, escalation paths, standard adoption); define what is “regional vs local vs global” and enforce it; drive standardization and transparency (service catalog, KPIs, RACI); ensure audit-ready documentation and evidence discipline.
• Service Delivery and Operations (end-to-end): Accountable for regional service performance (availability, incidents, problem management, change enablement); define SLAs/OLAs; drive operational stability for production and office services; ensure major incident management and post-incident improvement loops; manage and further develop all 8 local IT Services.
• Audit Readiness and Assurance (TISAX / ISO-aligned): Own regional readiness program: scope definition, evidence collection, gap remediation tracking, internal audits, and sustained compliance routines; coordinate assessments and re-assessments for sites; reduce audit effort via standard packs/templates/automation.
• Financial Management (OPEX/CAPEX, value and cost): Own regional IT budget planning and controlling; optimize cost-to-serve and demand; build business cases; track benefits realization; establish cost transparency by service and location; enforce financial governance for projects and run costs. Review/approve IT eCR, ePR, eSR, eSign in the region.
• Portfolio, Program, and Project Governance: Run regional portfolio intake/prioritization; ensure delivery discipline (milestones, status, risks, dependencies); unblock escalations; enforce “standard first” and avoid local reinvention; coordinate cross-location rollouts.
• People Leadership and Capability Building (regional IT community): Lead and develop local IT leaders; set expectations/skills model; succession planning; performance and engagement; build a high-performing regional IT community and culture of standardization and accountability.
• Stakeholder Management and Executive Partnering: Act as senior partner to regional/site leadership; align priorities, manage demand, and communicate risk/decisions; represent region in enterprise governance; manage escalations and demands transparently.

Scope of Responsibility:

• Geographic & Operational Scope: Regional accountability for North America, overseeing 22 total locations including 16 production sites across manufacturing and engineering environments with high availability, performance, and security expectations.
• Organizational & Reporting Model: Operates as a regional executive within a global matrix spanning global IT functions (standards, architecture, cybersecurity, core platforms) and regional business/site leadership (plants, engineering, shared services). Leads a federated regional IT organization, including leadership of local IT managers (including competence center leads, RCMs, depending on model), and influence cross-functional teams (Cybersecurity, Central IT, Finance/Controlling, HR, Procurement, and OT/Engineering) through governance and service ownership.
• Magnitude of Accountability:
  • 22 sites (16 production)
  • 25,000 users
  • ~280 regional IT employees (excluding external support FTE)
  • Criticality: 24/7 production-relevant services at plants; business continuity and incident response across multiple time zones, legal entities and Business Areas
  • Compliance/ Audit Exposure: Continuous readiness for cybersecurity/operational audits (TISAX, ISO-aligned, NIS2 relevance where applicable) with regional remediation ownership