In the summer of 2011, Rudež took over BC Vienna of the Austrian Bundesliga as the head coach.

[1] After compiling a record of three wins and six losses in the Austrian top flight[2] he parted ways with the club in November 2011 and then moved to Cibona where he served as assistant coach to Jasmin Repeša.

[3] In 2012, Rudež signed as the head coach with the Swiss side Lions de Genève, where he worked until 2016.

[4] In November 2018, Rudež accepted the position as the head coach of the PS Karlsruhe Lions in the German second-tier ProA league.

[12] In June 2022, he was appointed as head coach of Kaposvári KK of the Hungarian league (Nemzeti Bajnokság I/A).