CEO Identitas AG (80-100%)

• 03 October 2026
• 80 - 100%
• Indefinite duration
• Bern

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

As part of succession planning, we are looking for an entrepreneurial, communicative, and upright personality as

CEO Identitas AG

(80-100%)

for June 2027 or by agreement.

In this demanding function, you assume overall operational responsibility and, as a doer and visionary, you co-construct the pursuit of the company's strategic development together with the board of directors and the management. You lead according to economic principles and combine the requirements of public and private markets. You take into account the particular conditions of a company close to the Confederation as well as political, societal, and economic developments. You develop business models, stimulate innovation and digitalization, and optimize business processes. At the same time, you promote an inspiring and rewarding corporate culture. Stakeholder management is of central importance: as a mediator and orchestrator, you maintain the network, bring together diverse interests, and create sustainable solutions.

You possess the following skills:

• University degree in agricultural, environmental or food sciences, veterinary medicine, or business administration;
• Several years of experience in management and leadership, ideally with overall responsibility in an SME;
• Knowledge of the challenges of Swiss agriculture and the food industry as well as understanding of their value chains;
• Experience in digitalization and the ability to translate technological developments into entrepreneurial opportunities.

As a convincing, grounded, and confident leader, you combine entrepreneurship, decision-making, and developed social skills. You communicate in a manner adapted to your audience, perfectly master one national language, and can express yourself easily in a second national language.

Your modern workplace is located in a central location near the Wankdorf station in Bern. The mandated consultant David M. Trümpler looks forward to receiving your application at welcome@lutzpartner.ch and guarantees you absolute discretion and professional handling. For any information, he is available to you at 031 350 00 10.

Identitas AG offers you more

• Home office up to 4 days per week and infrastructure contribution of CHF 300.- per year
• Workplace with optimal connection to trains, buses, trams, and PubliBike station
• Infrastructure with shower and locker room
• Rewarding corporate culture with flat hierarchies
• Flexible annual working time, base 42 hours per week (at 100%)
• 25 days of leave, 30 days from age 50
• Promotion of work-life balance
• Sabbatical every 5 years with two additional weeks of leave
• Annual mobility allowance in the form of Reka vouchers worth CHF 300.-
• Reduced rent for car parking space
• Generous fleet discounts on various car brands
• 4 weeks of paternity leave
• 16 weeks of maternity leave
• Pension fund: 65% paid by Identitas, 35% by employees, no coordination deduction and maximum insured salary up to CHF 294'000.-, additional possibilities for voluntary savings
• UVG premium paid by Identitas AG
• Space for personal development and generous support for training and further education
• Transparent information culture with intranet and regular events
• Annual birthday gift and other contributions for anniversaries, marriages, births
• Bonus for recommendation of new employees
• Coffee, tea, water, and fruit available free of charge
• Internal massage offer at a reduced rate
• Weekly bootcamp offer