Brainlab is hiring a Head of Business Applications

As Head of Business Applications, you will lead a high-impact department at the intersection of enterprise technology, business process excellence, and artificial intelligence. You will own the strategy, implementation, and continuous evolution of Brainlab's global application landscape — ensuring our core systems are scalable, compliant, and future-ready. As an experienced manager you steer, coordinate and support a group of senior team leads. Reporting directly to the leader of the Global IT Division, you will act as a trusted partner to business stakeholders and drive digital transformation across all functions. Areas of Responsibility Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) - Set the strategic direction for the global SAP landscape (FI/CO, Controlling, and related modules), and guide the responsible team lead in translating that vision into operations - Support the ERP team lead in coordinating annual and interim financial close activities, ensuring IT systems consistently meet audit and compliance standards - Provide strategic oversight on SAP upgrade and migration decisions (incl. S/4HANA roadmap); act as the senior IT escalation point toward Finance, Controlling, and Legal stakeholders Human Capital Management - Define the HRM platform strategy and roadmap for SAP SuccessFactors - Act as executive sponsor in the partnership with HR leadership, enabling the team to digitize and optimize talent, performance, and payroll processes - Hold accountability for GDPR compliance and system integration standards; delegate operational enforcement to the responsible team lead Customer Relationship Management - Set the strategic vision for the Salesforce platform (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, custom apps) and hold the platform team lead accountable for execution - Guide the team in driving adoption and automation initiatives across the commercial organization, ensuring measurable ROI - Govern cross-platform integration standards between Salesforce and ERP/PLM ecosystems at a strategic and architectural level PLM / ALM / R&D Tools - Define the strategic direction for PLM and ALM platforms, supporting the team lead in aligning the roadmap with R&D and Engineering priorities - Ensure the team maintains compliance with applicable regulatory frameworks (ISO 13485, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, MDR) by setting standards and reviewing team-level controls - Hold portfolio-level accountability for R&D-supporting tools and business-specific applications; steer prioritization and lifecycle decisions in collaboration with the team lead AI Platform & App Development - Serve as executive sponsor and strategic champion for Brainlab's internal AI platform; guide and support the team lead in driving development and rollout - Create the conditions for business units to successfully leverage AI/ML capabilities, removing obstacles and aligning resources across teams - Maintain strategic oversight of low-code/no-code and custom app development initiatives, ensuring architectural coherence and business alignment