Delivery Director - Germany (m/f/d)

Enterprise Technology | Mission-Critical IT | Germany

What if your next leadership role wasn't about inheriting an organisation, but building one?

Amoria Bond has been exclusively retained by a fast-growing European technology services organisation to appoint a Delivery Director for its newly established German business.

Following significant success in its home market, our client is building a permanent presence in Germany. This is one of the foundational leadership appointments in that journey.

This is not a traditional Delivery Director position.

You will combine executive customer ownership, technology and delivery leadership, and entrepreneurial organisation building. You will work directly with major enterprise customers, remain close to engineering and delivery teams, and help establish the people, culture and operating model required to build a successful German organisation.

There will not be a large corporate infrastructure waiting for you. You will have the autonomy - and responsibility - to help create it.

The opportunity

You will take end-to-end ownership of complex enterprise customer relationships and delivery, operating as a trusted partner to senior technology leaders while remaining sufficiently close to the technical detail to earn the credibility of engineering teams.

Your remit will include developing trusted customer relationships, supporting complex transformation and mission-critical technology environments, building local delivery and engineering capability, recruiting and developing teams, and helping shape the organisation as the German business grows.

During the early stages, the role will be broad. You may move between a strategic customer discussion, a complex delivery challenge, building a team, shaping a solution and helping establish how the German organisation should operate.

The philosophy is simple: if you touch something, you take ownership of it.

Over time, you will become increasingly responsible for the operational leadership of the German business.

Who are we looking for?

We are deliberately keeping the industry background relatively open.

You may currently be operating within technology consulting, enterprise IT services, cloud or infrastructure, financial services technology, managed services, or a specialist technology organisation.

What matters more is the environment in which you have operated and the level of responsibility you have personally owned.

We are particularly interested in leaders who can demonstrate:

• ownership of complex, senior-level enterprise customer relationships;
• leadership within mission-critical or highly complex technology environments;
• strong technical affinity and the ability to understand complex technology quickly, without necessarily being an engineer yourself;
• credibility with both CIO/CTO-level stakeholders and engineering/delivery teams;
• experience building a business, practice, team, capability or customer relationship rather than simply inheriting one;
• strong judgement and the ability to operate effectively without extensive corporate support functions;
• experience leading complex delivery, transformation or technology programmes;
• commercial awareness and ideally some P&L responsibility; and
• the ability to move comfortably between strategic leadership and operational detail.

The agreed profile places particular emphasis on end-to-end ownership, executive customer engagement, engineering credibility, team development and long-term organisational thinking. Search Brief & Candidate Succes…

Leadership style matters

Experience alone will not determine success in this role.

We are looking for someone with high ownership and low ego.

Someone curious enough to keep learning, confident enough to take a position, and humble enough to recognise when they don't have the answer.

You should be comfortable building trust through transparency, giving talented people autonomy and adapting your leadership style to the individual situation rather than relying on hierarchy or rigid processes.

Authenticity, empathy, curiosity, self-awareness, resilience and accountability will matter just as much as the companies listed on your CV. These characteristics reflect the ownership-led culture at the heart of the organisation. Search Brief & Candidate Succes…

Why consider it?

This opportunity will not suit someone looking for a bigger corporate title, a larger inherited team or a highly structured environment.

It may suit you if you have reached a point in your career where you want more ownership rather than more hierarchy.

You will have the opportunity to help build a significant enterprise technology organisation in Germany, shape its culture from an early stage, develop long-term customer relationships and remain close to both technology and people.

Rather than stepping into somebody else's organisation, you will help create the organisation that comes next.

That builder proposition is fundamental to the mandate: the successful candidate will be joining to shape something meaningful rather than simply pursuing conventional career progression.

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