IT & Digitalisation Manager

As Porsche Middle East & Africa FZE continues to advance its digital capabilities and technology landscape, we are looking for an experienced IT leader to join our team. As the IT & Digitalisation Manager, you will be responsible for leading digital transformation, IT operations, infrastructure, information security, and technology governance across PME and the region. Acting as a strategic technology partner to the business, you will drive innovation through Microsoft 365, AI, automation, collaboration platforms, and data-driven solutions, while ensuring compliance with Porsche Group standards and information security requirements. This role plays a critical part in enabling business growth, enhancing operational efficiency and delivering secure, reliable, and future-focused technology services across the organisation.

• Lead IT operations, infrastructure, cloud services, workplace technology, service management and business continuity for PME and regional stakeholders.
• Act as Local Information Security Officer (LISO), ensuring compliance with Porsche security directives, ISMS requirements, risk management, audit activities, incident management and security awareness programmes.
• Drive digital transformation initiatives including Microsoft 365, Copilot, Power Platform, collaboration technologies, workflow automation and productivity improvements.
• Own AI governance and adoption activities, including policy development, compliance reviews, user enablement, training programmes and responsible AI implementation.
• Govern business intelligence and data platforms including Power BI processes, reporting governance, data quality standards and business requirements management.
• Manage onboarding, offboarding, identity and access management, vendor access governance and enterprise application administration.
• Serve as strategic technology partner to leadership, departments, subsidiaries and external partners; manage regional projects, integrations and stakeholder communications.

• Minimum of 5-6 years of proven leadership experience managing technical teams, service providers and technology vendors.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience engaging senior leadership and executive stakeholders.
• Extensive proven record of IT management experience within multinational organizations, covering enterprise IT operations, infrastructure and technology governance.
• Self-motivated, with a hands-on working approach and the ability to work independently.
• Proven experience leading regional technology initiatives, digital transformation programmes and cross-functional projects.
• Strong expertise in Microsoft 365, Azure, Active Directory, Power Platform, Power BI, SharePoint, Teams and Microsoft Copilot.
• Demonstrated experience in information security, cybersecurity, compliance, data governance and AI governance frameworks.
• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Information Technology, Information Systems or other relevant education.

Porsche Middle East and Africa FZE continues to go from strength to strength. We are constantly pushing ourselves further as we strive to achieve our goals, year after year. In doing so, we have not only grown in success, but also in numbers, so we are looking for more Porsche fans to join our ever-growing team. If you think you have it in you, we’d love to know your story.