CEO Rochester-Bern Executive Programs (100%)

Are you looking for a task that combines entrepreneurship, innovation, and education? If you have already carried entrepreneurial responsibility, lead participatively, shape change with joy, enjoy dealing with people, and your network ranges from business to universities – then we are looking for you as CEO and a personality who will lead Rochester-Bern Executive Programs into the future with courage and heart as of 1 October 2027.

Rochester-Bern Executive Programs (RoBe) is a university business school based in Bern. Since 1994, we have been offering modular continuing education for executives and board members – from compact seminars to CAS, DAS, and MAS study programs for individuals and companies, up to the international Executive MBA. Our programs lead to recognized degrees from our partner universities, the University of Rochester (USA) and the University of Bern (Switzerland).

Organized as a self-financed Swiss foundation, we work with professors from world-leading business schools as well as experienced personalities from business and practice. They represent current knowledge from economic research, years of experience in leadership or consulting, and didactic excellence.

Your tasks

• You bear the overall operational responsibility for Rochester-Bern and ensure smooth operations at all levels.
• You support the Board of Trustees in developing the strategy and are responsible for its consistent implementation.
• You secure the financial and personnel resources of the organization, create goal-oriented processes and structures, and thereby lay a solid foundation for the future.
• You lead and develop the management team and promote a culture of cooperation and personal responsibility.
• Together with the Head of Programs, you ensure the success and quality of the existing continuing education offerings and ensure their continuous further development.
• Together with the Head of Business Development, you develop new continuing education offerings for companies and the target group of executives and board members.
• Together with the Head of Marketing & Alumni:ae, you steer marketing focus and alumni work at a strategic level.
• Together with the Head of Business Excellence, you drive digital transformation and the further development of processes.
• You report regularly to the delegate of the Board of Trustees, with whom you also cooperate closely, and ensure transparent information about the development and results of the organization.
• You maintain contacts with the Board of Trustees as well as the universities Rochester and Bern.
• You represent Rochester-Bern externally to authorities, partner organizations, media, and the public; at the same time, you maintain relationships with central stakeholders in business and continuously expand them.

Your profile

• You bring entrepreneurial experience and have already carried responsibility for a business result, whether through P&L responsibility or through concrete successes in sales.
• You are a participative leadership personality with many years of experience in an SME.
• You have many years of management experience, including digital competence and experience in change processes.
• You think strategically and approach innovation with joy. In doing so, you possess good strategic AI judgment and can set meaningful ethical guidelines.
• You have completed a university degree; a doctorate ideally rounds off your profile.
• You have good access to the education sector and bring at least intrinsic interest from a user perspective.
• You have a network in business and the higher education landscape.
• You appear confident and authentic and convince through strong communication at all levels.
• You speak perfect German and English, both business fluent, and have international experience (especially USA).

We offer

• a demanding leadership task in a changing industry,
• cooperation with a committed, professionally qualified team in Bern,
• an inspiring network of university lecturers and practice experts,
• great scope for shaping the future of Rochester-Bern,
• a working environment at the intersection of university, business, and people,
• contemporary employment conditions.

Do you feel addressed?

The Board of Trustees of Rochester-Bern Executive Programs looks forward to your application. Please send your application dossier (max. 10 MB) by email by 15 November 2026

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