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DigitalService GmbH des Bundes

Head of Business Operations

Business OperationsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeBerlin, Germany

About the Job

Requirements

  • Substantial leadership experience in Delivery Operations or Business Operations within a digital agency, IT consultancy, or professional-services organization of approximately 300 or more people.
  • Demonstrated experience with agile matrix structures in a professional-services context.
  • A strong understanding of agile project controlling, resource metrics, and the commercial calculation of IT services at portfolio level.
  • Experience leading and developing team leads, with an empowering leadership style and the ability to strengthen interdisciplinary teams through trust, empathy, and strategic direction.
  • Ability to translate complex public-sector administrative frameworks into pragmatic processes and orient work around internal users' needs.
  • German proficiency at C1 level and English proficiency at least at B2 level.

Responsibilities

  • Scale and optimize the organization's operating system and steer the evolution of operational processes from initial business development through delivery and project closeout.
  • Enable teams to continuously analyze and improve business processes, establish pragmatic stage gates, identify recurring patterns, and provide playbooks.
  • Lead the team leads for Agile Coaching, PMO, and StratOps, setting a strategic framework for coordination across their teams.
  • Apply relevant frameworks and best practices to support scaling, establish useful standards, and help the organization learn from other scaling phases.
  • Coordinate interactions across organizational units, reduce friction, enable forward-looking capacity planning, and support delivery teams.
  • Maintain a strategic overview of the project portfolio and develop scope, schedule, and budget controlling and risk-management processes.
  • Advance Delivery Operations toward initial business development and support validation of effort estimates as a sparring partner.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience guiding an organization through a growth phase.

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