Interim Chief Information Officer for Healthcare Systems Consolidation
Austria·Healthcare & Life Sciences·Hospital groups and healthcare service networks· Vienna·Posted 25 July 2026
Applications close 7 January 2027
Hospital groups and healthcare service networks
The problem this seat exists to solve
A healthcare group is combining organisations with different clinical and administrative systems. The CIO will stabilise services and create a realistic consolidation path with clinical leadership, protecting continuity while reducing fragmentation and unsupported technology.
Before consolidation begins
You will map clinical and administrative systems, interfaces and dependencies affecting care delivery and business operations. You will agree consolidation priorities with clinical, operational and finance leaders rather than treating integration as a purely technical exercise.
First month: identify critical continuity risks and establish shared incident and escalation arrangements.
Migration and supplier responsibilities
- Establish data migration, testing and cutover controls with clear clinical acceptance and fallback arrangements.
- Reset supplier accountability and support models across the acquired or participating entities.
The organisation after consolidation
You will build a sustainable technology organisation and hand over service ownership, investment priorities and unresolved risks. By month nine: complete agreed migration milestones and demonstrate service stability with documented operational handover.
Ninety day approval point
By day 90: approve a phased consolidation roadmap and clinically informed acceptance criteria.
CIO background and delegated authority
The role requires CIO-level leadership in healthcare or closely comparable critical services, systems integration experience and ability to work with clinical stakeholders.
Additional useful experience includes hospital acquisition integration, healthcare interoperability and multi-site clinical system consolidation.
The role carries executive delivery responsibility within an agreed budget and delegation. It reports to the CEO, or to the board where the appointment is for CEO. Major decisions follow the organisation’s reserved matters.
Term
An initial six to nine months is envisaged, normally four to five days a week, including diagnosis and an orderly handover. Start date, remuneration, travel and on-site attendance will be agreed for the appointment.
Terms
- Where the board sits
- Vienna, Austria
- Applications close
- 7 January 2027
- Appointment
- Interim executive
- Engagement
- An initial six to nine months is envisaged, normally four to five days a week, including diagnosis and an orderly handover.
- Cross-border
- International candidatures are accepted.
Before you apply — this is an executive role
An interim seat needs work authorisation. A board seat in Austria usually does not.
This is the single most common way a cross-border interim engagement falls apart after it has been agreed. The visa-free position that applies to a non-executive director attending board meetings does not extend to an executive or operating role.
- Position in Austria
- A supervisory board member attending meetings requires no permit. A Vorstand appointment for a non-EU national does, under the Red-White-Red Card regime.
- On this brief
- International candidatures are accepted.
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