Director IT Business Partner

The Nemetschek Group is a pioneer for the digital transformation in the AEC/O industry and focuses on the use of open standards (OPEN BIM). As one of the world's leading groups in this industry, the Nemetschek Group increases the quality in the construction process with its intelligent software solutions and improves the digital workflow of all those involved in the process. As a result, buildings can be planned, built, and operated more efficiently, sustainably and with less impact on resources.

About this Role

The
Director IT Business Partner (m/f/d)
leads the IT Business Partner & Demand Management team, acting as the primary interface between business stakeholders and IT. This role ensures that business needs are translated into IT initiatives that deliver tangible value, while driving transparency, prioritization, and agile transformation across the portfolio. This is a global role, leading several individual contributors, and reports into the Group CIO. It can be based anywhere in Germany (preferably in Munich, where the Nemetschek HQ is located.).

Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Team Management

• Lead, mentor, and develop IT Business Partners & Demand Managers, fostering a culture of collaboration, agility, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee the registration, prioritization, and processing of all business demands, ensuring a single-entry gate and transparent workflow.
• Set and communicate the vision for demand management, aligning team objectives with organizational strategy.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for IT delivery issues and business engagement challenges.

Portfolio & Demand Oversight

• Host strategic portfolio sessions with key stakeholders to ensure a clear project prioritization is available
• Ensure that all demands are processed through a standardized demand management workflow, maintaining transparency of added value for all stakeholders.
• Act as the final quality gate for moving epics on the Portfolio Board, with authority to approve or revert items as needed.
• Oversee the formulation and prioritization of epics in the "New/Funnel" Portfolio Backlog, collaborating with stakeholders to ensure alignment with business goals.
• Guide to the calculation of WSJF (Weighted Shortest Job First) with IT Owners, ensuring prioritization reflects business impact and resource optimization.

Agile Transformation & Process Excellence

• Champion the agile transformation of the IT Business Partner & Demand Management function, supporting agile program implementation and mindset adoption.
• Ensure solutions deliver measurable business value by collaborating with Customers, Business Owners, and Solution Management to understand market forces and strategic objectives.
• Oversee the sorting of Portfolio Board items by economic value and effort, supported by the Solution Train Engineer, to achieve optimal goals and vision.

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

• Ensure requirements are clearly understood by agile teams, facilitating effective translation of business needs into IT deliverables.
• Lead portfolio reviews, present the Portfolio Roadmap, and ensure program backlog elements are reflected in team product backlogs.
• Oversee the development of customer-oriented support concepts and ensure non-functional requirements (NFRs) are met.

Continuous Improvement & Innovation

• Identify opportunities for process improvements and lead initiatives to implement best practices across the team and portfolio.
• Continuously improve collaboration and processes between functions, ensuring optimized outcome.
• Monitor demand trends, forecast performance, and report regularly to executive leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in information technology, business administration, or a related field; relevant certifications (ITIL, PMP) are a plus.
• Proven leadership experience in IT demand planning, portfolio management, or related fields.
• Strong strategic thinking, transformation management, and team-building skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Deep understanding of ITIL, project management methodologies, and business process alignment.
• Advanced proficiency in demand and capacity planning tools (e.g. JIRA, Excel).
• Project Management experience in waterfall and agile methods.
• Fluent in English and German.

Why Nemetschek?

• Impact:
  We offer you a diverse position in a motivating work environment where you can realize your ideas.
• Sustainable Growth:
  In our sustainably growing and innovative company you have the chance to develop yourself further.
• Culture:
  With us you work in an international team with flat hierarchies and short decision-making processes, in which you can make a difference.
• Work-Life-Balance:
  We offer you various benefits in the areas of sports, nutrition, childcare and much more.
• Health:
  The health of all employees is important to us, which is why we offer you a wide range of health and preventive care services.
• Hybrid Way Forward:
  Through mobile working and variable working hours without core working hours, we enable you to be flexible, both professionally and privately.

We, the Nemetschek Group, are a global organization with employees from 60 nations. For us, diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are the keys to unleashing our full potential and driving true innovation. We can best support our customers in shaping the world through a diverse culture. We aim to treat EVERYONE with respect and appreciation, regardless of differences. Valuing diverse opinions and creating equal opportunities for all is of the utmost importance for us as an organization, and as individuals.