Your area of work:

The Strategy & Transformation team within Deutsche Börse's Post Trading division partners with senior management to shape and execute high-priority initiatives across the organization. We translate strategic priorities into pragmatic roadmaps and drive disciplined delivery across complex, cross-divisional programs - spanning operating model evolution, process improvement, and performance/value steering.

As a Strategy & Transformation Expert, you will build and run a structured execution approach for a portfolio of critical initiatives, ensuring tight governance, transparent progress tracking, and reliable delivery across business and functional stakeholders.

Your responsibilities:

• Establish and lead a cross-divisional delivery framework for high-priority initiatives, incl. governance setup, workplan architecture, milestones, dependencies, and risk/issue management.

• Drive execution discipline and operational readiness across multiple workstreams (business, operations, technology, finance, risk/compliance), ensuring clear ownership, timely decisioning, and effective escalation paths.
• Build transparent performance and value tracking (KPIs, benefits, cost impacts, delivery health) and produce concise executive-level updates for senior management and governance forums.
• Translate strategic and conceptual inputs (market/regulatory developments, competitive dynamics, portfolio priorities) into actionable implementation roadmaps and decision proposals.
• Run stakeholder alignment and communications cadence across senior stakeholders, enabling fast alignment on priorities, trade-offs, and sequencing in a high-change environment.
• Contribute to transaction-driven and large-scale transformation initiatives as needed, supporting analysis, planning, and execution management with high confidentiality and professionalism.

Your profile:

• Master's degree from a top-tier university in business, economics, finance, engineering, or a quantitative field.

• 5+ years of relevant experience in top-tier strategy consulting (or Big 4 / transaction services) and/or a corporate role leading complex transformation/program delivery in financial services.
• Proven track record running multi-workstream execution/governance (PMO/Transformation Office style), including planning, dependency management, RAID, executive reporting, and decision facilitation.
• Strong strategic and financial analytics: business cases, value/benefits tracking, prioritization, and performance steering
• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills across seniority levels; ability to operate under pressure with high autonomy and sound judgment.
• High discretion and integrity when handling sensitive topics.
• Excellent PowerPoint/Excel skills.
• Fluent English required, German and/or French and/or Spanish is a strong plus.