Head of Public Cloud Solutions

As Head of Public Cloud Solutions, you act as the business owner of the domain. You define where the portfolio must go, ensure that the right offerings and capabilities are brought to market and create alignment across Product Management, Architecture, Presales, Marketing and Engineering. You combine strategic portfolio leadership with commercial traction: you engage on priority opportunities, translate recurring customer demand into scalable solutions and make portfolio, investment and solution trade-offs explicit.

• Own the domain strategy and portfolio direction: You set the ambition, scope, differentiation and target markets for Public Cloud. You maintain an integrated view of offerings, lifecycle, overlaps, gaps and strategic partnerships.
• Drive commercial performance: You build qualified pipeline and market traction together with Industry, Account and Solution Sales teams. You engage selectively in strategic opportunities where domain leadership, solution expertise or a portfolio decision is required.
• Lead the Public Cloud Solution Tribe: You chair the virtual cross-functional leadership team and create one integrated view of priorities, commercial opportunities, roadmap progress, risks, dependencies and decisions.
• Sponsor roadmap and investment choices: You set priorities and business outcomes. You work with Product Managers, who drive the mid- to long-term investment roadmap and the productisation deliverables required for a managed-services portfolio.
• Guide solution direction: You ensure opportunities and major customer changes reuse approved propositions, reference architectures and blueprints. You resolve business trade-offs while respecting the decision authority of Architecture, Engineering, Security, Compliance and Delivery.
• Connect market demand to scalable capability: You aggregate recurring customer and industry needs, convert them into portfolio requirements and avoid unnecessary customisation and parallel backlogs.
• Ensure build-and-run readiness: You partner with Global Delivery to confirm operability, service quality, automation, cost-to-deliver and scalability before commitments are made.
• Own strategic hyperscaler and technology partnerships: You build and manage executive relationships with Microsoft, AWS and other key public cloud technology partners. You translate these relationships into joint business plans, differentiated propositions, co-selling opportunities, market development, enablement, funding and measurable commercial impact.
• Manage performance and governance: You use a balanced domain scorecard covering commercial, portfolio, delivery and innovation outcomes. You drive weekly operational cadence, monthly domain review and quarterly cross-domain alignment.
• You report to the Director Solutions & Strategy.

• You bring substantial leadership experience in public cloud, cloud services, managed services, portfolio management, solution strategy or a comparable technology domain.
• You understand the public cloud ecosystem and the commercial, architectural, operational, security and compliance considerations that shape enterprise cloud solutions.
• A background in Applications and/or AI is an advantage.
• You have a strong record of translating market and customer needs into differentiated, repeatable offerings and investment priorities.
• You combine business ownership with enough technical depth to challenge choices, ask the right questions and build credibility with architects and engineers.
• You can lead through influence in a matrix organisation and create commitment across functions, countries and senior stakeholders.
• You are comfortable navigating strategic opportunities, commercial trade-offs, partner relationships, business cases and portfolio performance.
• You communicate clearly, make decisions based on facts and turn ambiguity into priorities, ownership and measurable outcomes.
• You are fluent in written and spoken English. Knowledge of Dutch is a plus.
• You demonstrate Cegeka’s values in the way you lead and collaborate.
• You are based in Belgium or in the Netherlands and are comfortable working across client locations and Cegeka offices in the Benelux region and from home.