Chief Information Officer

**cargo-partner GmbH** is seeking a

You’ll ensure that the performance evaluations are timely, construct and transparent and guarantees that the IT infrastructure supports the goals and requirements of Business and is in line with the Corporate Strategic Objectives whilst structuring the IT organisation in a way that interaction with the Business can take place in productive agile axles.

As a
**key and crucial** Member of the Digital Board - and on behalf of the
**Corporate Executive Board** - you’ll have the collective mandate to lead digital change and promote agile cooperation with the business organisation. Ensure overall alignment with the corporate executive directive and strategy, whilst facilitating required transparency regarding articulated (Business and IT) demand and available (Business and IT) supply to enable meaningful priority setting in the Corporate Executive Board.

**Who are we?**

**cargo-partner GmbH** operates a seamless worldwide network of own offices in Europe, Asia, Australia and Northern America plus closely cooperating agents in the other parts of the world. cargo-partner is best-in-class in solving our customers’ logistics challenges. We are supplying them with general overseas and overland logistics, special industry solutions according to client specific demand at the highest service level.

Our systems and organization as
**digital forwarder and digital platform** enable us to produce the full scope of air, ocean, road, rail, contract logistics, parcel and e-commerce services at a very good ratio of high service level and low production costs. We are champions in fast and competent client integration.

We’re a team of
**4,000+** across
**40 countries** and by 2025, cargo-partner will have grown to be a
**EUR 2bn** turnover company and a
**top 20 global air & ocean logistics service provider**.

**Your day to day responsibilities**:

- Manages the IT infrastructure of a company and **sets objectives and strategies for the IT departments**, which are in line with the Corporate Strategic Objectives
- Ensures an **agile development **and deployment of digital solutions according to backlog prioritization
- Defines and governs group IT strategy with a strong strategic and business mind-set
- Monitors changes or advancements in technology to identify strategies and ways in which the group can gain competitive advantage, selects and implements suitable technology to streamline all internal operations aiming to optimize strategic benefits
- Ensures that corporate software solutions, information and communication landscape is in line with business / corporate goals
- Cooperates with the HR department to recruit new employees for IT teams and allocates and retains staff members. Focuses on staff development, retention and succession planning

**Background and experience**:

- Proven experience as CIO or similar Leadership position, within a fast paced business
- BSc/BA in computer science, engineering or relevant field; MSc/MA will be preferred
- Excellent knowledge of IT systems and infrastructure
- Background in designing/developing IT systems, planning IT implementation and software design
- Solid understanding of data analysis, budgeting and business operations
- Strong organisational and leadership skills
- Highly proficient in spoken and written English is a must, German language is optional, but a nice to have

**Why choose cargo-partner?**

We are offering a competitive salary and benefits package and a career plan with professional growth opportunities; as our business is constantly growing you will have a chance to progress and grow with the company. We are a company with open culture where our focus is on our people - they create our strength. We enable you to come up with creative ideas and we will always listen. Finally, we can offer stability of employment working in a stable international company with a leading position in the air and sea freight market.

Unternehmensprofil:
cargo-partner ist ein privat geführter Info-Logistik-Komplettanbieter mit einem breiten Portfolio an Luft-, See-, Landtransport
- und Logistik-Services und besonderen Stärken in den Bereichen Informationstechnologie sowie Supply Chain Optimierung. Das Unternehmen betreibt über 130 Standorte in 40 Ländern, um weltweit schnelle und effiziente Lösungen für eine Vielzahl an Branchen zur Verfügung zu stellen. Mit der SPOT-Plattform sichert cargo-partner einfache Kooperation und volle Transparenz entlang der gesamten Supply Chain.

Als familiengeführtes Unternehmen sind wir sehr mitarbeiterorientiert und unterstützen Ihre Weiterentwicklung und persönlichen Ziele. Werfen Sie einen Blick in unsere Mission & Vision.

Hier finden Sie unsere Datenschutzrichtlinie.