Global CTO – BabyBjörn

Founded in 1961, BabyBjörn is a Swedish, family-owned brand that develops, markets, and distributes an extensive range of premium baby products, including world-renown baby carriers, bouncers, and travel cots. BabyBjörn strives to make everyday life easier and more fun for families with young children by developing innovative, safe, long-lasting, and beautifully designed products. 

BabyBjörn is now looking for a Global CTO to expand the IT organization. In this position you will be responsible for strategy, IT security and the development going forward for Global BabyBjörn. This means strengthening the IT organization and merging the IT and Tech departments with a common leader. You will be reporting to the CEO, Stina Westerstad.

Experience & Competence

  • Experience from consumer-oriented businesses/retail
  • Experience from product-oriented companies
  • Broad technical competence and experience
  • Experience from leading an IT department and line management experience

Personality & Leadership

  • Commercial mindset – drive technology topics from a holistic business perspective
  • Clear, be able to prioritize and make decisions – integrity
  • Drive change in a soft and non-disruptive manner – “street smart” during implementations
  • Coaching leadership skills, acting through teams – drive and enjoy teamwork
  • Curious, open, warm and empathetic, and a sense of humor

Goals & Areas of Responsibility

Overall responsible for Tech / IT strategy and vision

  • Secure IT roadmap (“As-is” and “To-be”) and alignment with business plan
  • Commit to drive deadline and prioritize short- and long-term initiatives – understand gaps and remove
  • suboptimizations
  • Secure the right systems are utilized / sourced – based on regional and global requirements
  • Set and implement a clear agenda for IT Security

DO YOU WANT MORE INFORMATION?

We’re looking forward to answer your questions and supply you with more information. Please contact:

Felix Sjöborg
felix.sjoborg@dmatch.se
+46 73 158 36 67

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