Business Unit Manager

Reply Polska Sp. z o.o. Show all offers

Katowice

7 days ago

In short

Business Unit Manager wanted in Katowice to build and lead a new Identity and Access Management team of up to 10 consultants. Responsibilities include team leadership, recruitment, project delivery, stakeholder management, and hands-on client engagement. Requires university degree, management experience, and strong English/Polish communication skills.

Keywords

Identity and Access Management Project Management Team Leadership Consulting Recruitment Budgeting Forecasting Stakeholder Management Agile Methodology

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ResponsibilitiesAs Business Unit Manager, you shape a brand-new chapter of our Identity and Access Management practice in Poland. You build up and lead our new team in Katowice from scratch, while acting as the key link to our team in Düsseldorf, supporting both existing and new projects. It is a role that combines leadership and delivery and calls for someone who wants to build something new with curiosity, passion and an agile, collaborative mindset.

How You'll Contribute

Build up and head a new Business Unit in Poland, growing the team to up to 10 IAM consultants and engineers over the coming 12-month periodTake on the professional and disciplinary leadership of the team: actively participate in recruitment and sourcing, onboarding, mentoring and development careers
Build up IAM competencies in the team in a targeted way, both by developing existing team members and by specifically recruiting the skills that are still missing
Take responsibility for budget, timeline, and successful delivery: staffing plans, utilization, forecasts and monthly reporting
Plan and steer assignments across multiple parallel client engagements, balancing delivery commitments against team capacity, flagging risks early
Supervise project delivery and report on KPIs against the business plan, working in an agile mode together with an international team
Support proposal and bid work with realistic effort estimates and staffing concepts
Stay hands-on in client engagements rather than managing from a distance: support and steer projects across the full IAM lifecycle, from solution assessments and technology scouting to integration, implementation, data migration and operations
Support the operational run of IAM platforms for our clients, helping the team troubleshoot, maintain and continuously improve solutions already in production
Work closely with the Düsseldorf project leads and architects: clear handoffs, shared tooling (Jira, Confluence), and transparent status reporting Qualifications
Must-have
Completed university degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a comparable field
Several years of professional experience including prior experience leading and managing a team, ideally within consulting or professional services, and comfortable with a dual mandate of people leadership and active project involvementAn entrepreneurial mindset: genuinely motivated to build a new unit and team from scratch, rather than step into an already-established structure
Solid commercial project management skills: planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting in a billable, multi-project environment
Strong stakeholder management skills: able to operate confidently with local team members, international leadership and clients alike
Strong communication skills in English and Polish
Willingness to travel occasionally to Germany (mainly Düsseldorf) and to client sites Nice-to-have
Experience in Identity and Access Management, and familiarity with specific IAM platforms (e.g. One Identity Manager, Okta, Auth0, Keycloak, Oracle, Microsoft Entra ID, SailPoint, Ping Identity)

Experience scaling a team from the ground up, not just managing an established one

Experience working in international or matrix organizationsA solid background in operations; ITIL certification

Project or program management certification (e.g. PMP, PRINCE2, Scrum Master)

Awareness of compliance and audit frameworks (e.g. GDPR, SOX, ISO 27001)

German language skills

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