IT Strategy Manager
Drive enterprise-wide transformation by shaping IT strategy, governance, and architecture. Collaborate across business and tech to unlock innovation and resilience. Ready to lead with impact? Apply now.
Your challenges
- Translate strategic business objectives into a coherent IT vision and transformation roadmap.
- Assess current IT landscapes and governance models to identify gaps and improvement opportunities.
- Design future-state IT strategies that enable innovation, scalability, and growth.
- Define and maintain enterprise-wide IT governance structures and policies.
- Advise on emerging technologies and digital risks to enhance resilience and strategic alignment.
This is what you bring
- Master’s degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, or a related field. An MBA or specialization in Strategy, Digital Innovation, or Enterprise Architecture is preferred.
- Minimum of 7 years’ experience in IT strategy, enterprise architecture, or digital transformation, ideally within complex or multinational environments.
- Strong command of frameworks such as TOGAF, COBIT, or ITIL, with practical application in strategic contexts.
- Proven ability to distill complex technical topics into clear, actionable business insights.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills across both business and IT domains.
What will you do?
As an IT Strategy Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the mid-to-long-term IT landscape by aligning technology capabilities with business ambitions. You will drive strategic planning efforts, provide insight-driven guidance on key technology decisions, and design governance frameworks that enable agility, control, and measurable impact. You will also take an active role in the development and management of IT policies to ensure coherence and compliance across the enterprise. This role requires close collaboration with stakeholders across both business and IT domains to assess current-state environments, shape future-state operating and governance models, and deliver actionable roadmaps that accelerate digital transformation, enhance operational resilience, and unlock sustainable business value.
This is what you will do:
IT Strategy Development
Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders, including non-technical executives, to understand strategic business objectives and translate them into a coherent IT vision and transformation initiatives.
Steer assessments of the current IT landscape, operating models, and governance frameworks to evaluate maturity, gaps, and business alignment.
Design and articulate future-state IT strategies that align with overall business goals, including architecture, digital capabilities, and organizational models — that enable innovation, scalability, and growth.
2. Strategic IT Planning
Develop and maintain a long-term IT strategic plan that reflects evolving business priorities and emerging technology trends.
Prepare business cases, scenario analyses, strategic roadmaps, and implementation blueprints to support executive decision-making.
Support the execution of transformation programs, ensuring effective change management, stakeholder alignment, and performance monitoring.
Identify, evaluate, and advise on disruptive technologies, innovation opportunities, and shifts in the competitive and regulatory landscape.
3. IT Governance & Policy Management
Define and maintain enterprise-wide IT governance structures, and policies, to ensure consistency, compliance, and operational effectiveness.
Monitor adherence to governance and promote a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement.
Champion IT management best practices, including strategic sourcing, demand governance, and value-based investment prioritization.
4. Technology Architecture Advisory
Partner with enterprise architects and solution teams to guide key technology decisions through a strategic and business-aligned lens.
Ensure technology choices align with long-term strategic goals, risk appetite, performance needs, and scalability requirements.
Stay abreast of emerging technologies and trends to advise senior IT and business stakeholders on their relevance, applicability, and strategic impacts.
5. Digital Risk & Resilience
Conduct strategic digital risk assessments to identify technology-related threats, vulnerabilities, and operational exposures.
Collaborate with risk, compliance, and security functions to embed resilience and risk mitigation strategies into IT planning to safeguard organizational assets.
Provide guidance to senior leadership on strategic controls, resilience mechanisms, and technology-related regulatory developments.
This is what we offer
- Gross salary between € 4.165,- and € 6.845,- per month depending on your work experience, variable performance based reward, a fixed expense allowance and a fixed working from home allowance per working day.
- Pension accrual without a compulsory personal contribution.
- 30 vacation days (on a full-time basis) and the option to buy more days or sell your vacation days.
- At KPMG we work hybrid, so you can work from home, from the client or at the office.
- A completely furnished home office.
- A lease car or a mobility budget.
- A laptop and iPhone.
- Choice to pick from different courses which contribute to your own personal and professional development.
- Diversity networks in the areas of pride, gender, ability, cultural diversity, and generations that regularly organize various activities to celebrate differences!
- Focus on well-being! There is a gym at the Amstelveen office or you can get a discount for a gym near your house and you get access to different health and/or vitality programs.
- ‘Together’ is one of our core values. So you can count on different social activities, like team events, drinks with colleagues and events with all your KPMG colleagues.
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