Senior Change Manager – Value Case & Executive Reporting (m/f/x) S/4HANA & Salesforce Transformation

Job Description
Step out of your comfort zone, excel and redefine the limits of what is possible. That's just what our employees are doing every single day – in order to set the pace through our innovations and enable outstanding achievements. After all, behind every successful company are many great fascinating people.

In a spacious modern setting full of opportunities for further development, ZEISS employees work in a place where expert knowledge and team spirit reign supreme. All of this is supported by a special ownership structure and the long-term goal of the Carl Zeiss Foundation: to bring science and society into the future together.

Join us today. Inspire people tomorrow.

Diversity is a part of ZEISS. We look forward to receiving your application regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, philosophy of life, disability, age, sexual orientation or identity.

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  • You will steer and refine the executive reporting for ZEISS' large-scale business transformation (S/4HANA & Salesforce) to core stakeholders, e.g., supervisory board, executive board, steering committees

  • You will steer the value case process end-to-end from definition to realization together with ZEISS segments, entities, as well as process and IT experts

  • You will drive decision making in top management committees

  • You will support and advise the program's top management and act as their sparring partner

  • You will support shaping program guardrails, unraveling improvement potentials and implementing quality measures

  • You will steer the risk and issue management process, driving mitigations and resolutions

  • You will support at crucial program interface topics such as resource and budget planning together with controlling


  • A degree with excellent grades in natural sciences, engineering or economics; a PhD or MBA are a plus

  • At least 5-8 years of professional experience in a similar role or function, preferably in a leading management consultancy or corporate strategy

  • Profound experience in process and customer excellence, business case realization and executive reporting

  • Basic Know How in S/4HANA and Salesforce

  • Proven success in lateral leadership of large teams and responsibility for complex projects

  • Outstanding analytical competence, strategic and outside-the-box thinking

  • Enjoy working in an agile way in networked, diverse and interdisciplinary teams

  • Strong communication skills

  • Fluent German and English skills

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