About this role
Job Requirements
Join us in pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.
Our inspiring and caring environment forms a global community that celebrates diversity and individuality. We encourage you to step beyond your comfort zone, offering resources and flexibility to foster your professional and personal growth, all while valuing your unique contributions.
The Strategy Initiative Manager leads high-impact strategic initiatives from concept through execution and value realization. The role translates strategic priorities into actionable roadmaps, coordinates cross-functional stakeholders, drives transformation and ensures measurable business outcomes. Acting as a trusted partner to senior management, the role connects strategy with execution and ensures that key initiatives deliver sustainable organizational value.
The Strategy Initiative Manager is responsible for shaping, coordinating and driving key strategic initiatives across the organization.
The role translates strategic priorities into structured initiatives, executable roadmaps and measurable business outcomes, ensuring alignment across business, technology and operational stakeholders.
Hybrid work location: Bratislava, or Košice.
Work Experience
- Lead strategic initiatives from initial concept through execution and value realization.
- Translate strategic priorities into clear objectives, workstreams, milestones and measurable outcomes.
- Establish appropriate governance, ownership, and decision-making structures.
- Monitor progress, dependencies, risks and business impact.
- Support development and execution of functional and organizational strategy.
- Ensure initiatives are aligned with strategic priorities and portfolio objectives.
- Support prioritization based on business value, strategic fit, effort and capability impact.
- Identify opportunities for simplification, consolidation and increased efficiency.
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Coordinate initiatives across business, technology and operational functions.
- Build alignment between senior stakeholders and involved teams.
- Manage dependencies and resolve cross-functional challenges.
Transformation & Innovation
- Identify opportunities for transformation through AI, automation, digital platforms and new ways of working.
- Evaluate opportunities and translate relevant concepts into strategic initiatives.
- Support pilots and scaling of successful solutions.
- Provide management-level reporting and recommendations.
Executive Stakeholder Management
- Act as a strategic sparring partner for senior management.
- Facilitate strategic workshops and decision-making forums.
- Ensure transparent communication of priorities, progress, risks and outcomes.
Skills & Experience
- Strong experience in strategy, transformation, program management, digitalization or strategic initiatives.
- Strong strategic and analytical thinking combined with execution capability.
- Proven ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives.
- Experience with digital transformation, AI, automation or enterprise platforms.
- Strong business-case and value-realization mindset.
- Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
- Ability to influence and lead without formal authority.
- Experience working in complex, global organizations.
- Fluent business English.
Success Measures
- Strategic initiatives delivered against agreed objectives and milestones.
- Measurable business impact and value realization.
- Cost savings / cost avoidance and productivity improvements.
- Reduction of complexity and duplication.
- Effective cross-functional stakeholder alignment.
- Successful implementation and adoption of strategic changes.
- Increased maturity of strategic initiative governance and execution
In line with applicable pay transparency requirements, the minimum gross monthly base salary for this position is 3 200€.
In addition, this role includes a variable compensation component, depending on individual and/or company performance.
The final offer will be determined based on qualifications, skills, and experience and may exceed the stated minimum.
Benefits
- Variable and Christmas bonus
- Hybrid type of work – combination of telework and work from office
- Flexible Working Hours
- Bridge days – free extra paid leave 6 days per year
- 3 sick days per year (no doctor’s permit needed)
- In case of sickness 100% salary reimbursement 20 days/ year, this includes max. 10 days/ year for of family care
- Additional pension plan
- 300 EUR for regeneration of work force via cafeteria system
- Wellbeing program – Psychological, Legal and Financial Councelling
- Family care program (subsidy for newborns, maternity leave, kindergardens, summer camps)
- Retention program (work anniversary, life anniversary, employee loans)
- Training and development program (business and product trainings, e-learning, language courses, soft skills trainings,…)
- Adjustable standing desk as a standard
- Participation on world famous IT conferences like Microsoft IGNITE for best employees
- Wide project portfolio in healthcare domain and job rotation within company (Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare IT services, …)
Who we are
We are a team of more than 73,000 highly dedicated Healthineers in more than 70 countries. As a leader in medical technology, we constantly push the boundaries to create better outcomes and experiences for patients, no matter where they live or what health issues they are facing. Our portfolio is crucial for clinical decision-making and treatment pathways.
How we work
When you join Siemens Healthineers, you become one in a global team of scientists, clinicians, developers, researchers, professionals, and skilled specialists, who believe in each individual’s potential to contribute with diverse ideas. We are from different backgrounds, cultures, religions, political and/or sexual orientations, and work together, to fight the world’s most threatening diseases and enable access to care, united by one purpose: to pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.
As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from individuals with disabilities.
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