CEO Identitas AG (80-100%)

About the job

Identitas AG, based in Bern, has been the Swiss data specialist for healthy animals and safe food for 25 years. Around 100 employees develop and operate digital, innovative, and efficient solutions for Switzerland's agriculture and food industry for the federal government, the cantons, and private sector clients.

As part of succession planning, we are looking for an entrepreneurial, communicative, and integral personality as of June 2027 or by arrangement for the position of

CEO Identitas AG

(80-100%)

In this demanding role, you will bear overall operational responsibility and, as a doer and visionary, jointly shape the strategic development of the company together with the Board of Directors and the Executive Management. You will lead according to business management principles and combine the requirements of the public and private market environments. In doing so, you will take into account the special framework conditions of a federal-affiliated company as well as political, social, and economic developments. You will further develop business models, drive innovation and digitalisation forward, and optimise company processes. At the same time, you will promote an inspiring and appreciative corporate culture. Stakeholder management is of central importance: as a mediator and director, you will maintain the network, bring together different interests, and create sustainable solutions.

You possess the following competencies:

• Completed university degree in agricultural, environmental, or food sciences, veterinary medicine, or business administration;
• Several years of leadership and management experience, ideally with overall responsibility in an SME;
• Knowledge of the challenges of the Swiss agriculture and food industry as well as an understanding of its value chains;
• You have experience in digitalisation and can translate technological developments into entrepreneurial opportunities.

As a convincing, grounded, and confident leader, you combine entrepreneurial thinking with decisiveness and pronounced social skills. You communicate appropriately for the audience, have excellent knowledge of one national language, and can communicate confidently in a second national language.

Your modern workplace is centrally located at Wankdorf train station in Bern. The appointed consultant David M. Trümpler looks forward to receiving your application at welcome@lutzpartner.ch and guarantees you absolute discretion as well as professional handling. For enquiries, he is gladly available at 031 350 00 10.

Identitas AG offers you more

• Home office up to 4 days a week and an infrastructure contribution of CHF 300.- annually
• Workplace with optimal transport connections to train, bus, tram, and PubliBike station
• Infrastructure with shower and cloakroom
• Appreciative corporate culture with flat hierarchy
• Flexible annual working hours, based on 42 hours per week (at 100%)
• 25 days holiday, 30 days from age 50
• Promotion of work-life balance
• Sabbatical every 5 years with two additional weeks of holiday
• Annual mobility allowance in the form of Reka checks worth CHF 300.-
• Discounted car parking rental
• Generous fleet discounts on various car brands
• 4 weeks paternity leave
• 16 weeks maternity leave
• Pension fund: 65% paid by Identitas, 35% by employees, no coordination deduction and maximum insured salary up to CHF 294,000.-, additional voluntary savings options
• Accident insurance premium paid by Identitas AG
• Room for personal development and generous support in education and training
• Transparent information culture with intranet and regular events
• Annual birthday gift and additional bonuses for anniversaries, weddings, births
• Bonus for referring new employees
• Coffee, tea, water, and fruit freely available
• Discounted in-house massage offer
• Weekly bootcamp offer