Business Unit Manager

• 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 months
• Take on professional and disciplinary leadership of the team: recruitment and sourcing, onboarding, mentoring and development careers
• Build up IAM competencies in the team by developing existing members and recruiting missing skills
• 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
• Supervise project delivery and report on KPIs against the business plan in an agile mode
• Support proposal and bid work with effort estimates and staffing concepts
• Stay hands-on in client engagements across the full IAM lifecycle: solution assessments, technology scouting, integration, implementation, data migration and operations
• Support the operational run of IAM platforms for clients, helping troubleshoot, maintain and improve solutions in production
• Work closely with Düsseldorf project leads and architects: clear handoffs, shared tooling (Jira, Confluence), transparent status reporting

Must-have:

• University degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable field
• Several years of professional experience including prior team leadership, ideally in consulting or professional services
• Entrepreneurial mindset and motivation to build a new unit from scratch
• Solid commercial project management: planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting in a billable, multi-project environment
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Strong communication skills in English and Polish
• Willingness to travel occasionally to Germany (mainly Düsseldorf) and client sites

Nice to have:

• Experience in Identity and Access Management and IAM platforms (One Identity Manager, Okta, Auth0, Keycloak, Oracle, Microsoft Entra ID, SailPoint, Ping Identity)
• Experience scaling a team from the ground up
• Experience in international or matrix organizations
• Background in operations; ITIL certification
• Project or program management certification (PMP, PRINCE2, Scrum Master)
• Awareness of compliance and audit frameworks (GDPR, SOX, ISO 27001)
• German language skills