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Posted 9 hours agoDirector Digital Success & Transformation Eastern Europe (f/m/d)
On-site
Responsibilities
- Accelerate adoption and P&L impact of Heidelberg Materials’ digital solutions and platforms by orchestrating rollout, change, training, and
- Build strong country partnerships with Managing Directors, functional leaders, and operations teams to identify the highest‑impact business problems and convert them into scalable digital deployment plans.
- Ensure initiatives move from rollout to outcomes, establishing accountability for usage, process change, KPI shifts, and financial impact—avoiding “technology delivered but not adopted” scenarios.
- Lead the transformation playbook for your region: standardise and replicate proven approaches (governance, communication, capability building, super‑user networks, performance tracking) across countries to increase speed and consistency.
- Steer a balanced portfolio across efficiency, growth, customer experience, and sustainability outcomes—ensuring alignment with enterprise platforms, architecture, data, security, and operating model standards.
- Create transparency for senior governance by providing crisp, fact‑based reporting on progress, risks, adoption, and value delivered; escalate early and remove barriers decisively.
- Drive AI literacy forward across your region, ensuring business leaders and teams build understanding, confidence, and practical skills to adopt and scale AI‑enabled solutions effectively.
- Support M&A integration by partnering with country management and Group Strategy & M&A to build digital integration plans, coordinate with Group digital functions, and ensure acquisitions align with the regional digital agenda.
- Reduce the local application portfolio by identifying business cases that speak in favour of moving towards a Group solution.
- Build a strong partnership with the Global Enterprise Architecture community to ensure architectural alignment and accelerate consolidation.
- Drive regional cyber security through the Regional Security Officers in your team, ensuring tight alignment with the Global Cybersecurity team on standards, incident response, and risk posture across the countries — including security awareness and engagement programmes for end users.
- Proven track record of delivering measurable business outcomes (P&L impact) through digital initiatives—beyond pilots and launch events—across multiple countries or regions.
Requirements
- Partner with the global Enterprise Products team and support the S4/HANA go‑live in your region, ensuring readiness, change management, and successful adoption across country organisations.
- experience driving large‑scale digital transformation and value realisation in a complex, international environment (e.g., industrial, manufacturing, materials, or comparable).
- Strong communicator and excellent senior‑level stakeholder management skills—able to translate digital and AI topics into clear business language and drive decisions with transparency and pragmatism.
- Experience in the ready‑mix concrete, cement, and aggregates business lines, or comparable heavy industrial sectors.
- Strong understanding of how platforms, data, analytics, and AI‑enabled solutions translate into operational and commercial value, and what it takes to drive sustained adoption.
- Understanding of core business processes in the countries and the ability to connect digital initiatives to tangible operational improvements.
Benefits
- That's why we offer you attractive benefits, such as: Flexible working time models 30 vacation days plus additional special vacation days Attractive compensation with profit share/bonus , Christmas, and vacation payment Multiple learning & development options: support of job-related further training, various technical and leadership development program JobTicket, JobBike and further special conditions and discounts for e.g., gyms Company fitness room , various sports classes, health, and prevention and
Additional details
- For our Digital department we are seeking the Director Digital Success & Transformation Eastern Europe (f/m/d).
- The position can be located within any major HM location in Europe.
- This is one of the most influential digital leadership roles in the region.
- As Director Digital Success & Transformation Eastern Europe, you operate at the intersection of business performance, country leadership, and digital transformation.
- Your mission is both, simple and high-impact: turn digital capabilities into measurable business results across some of Heidelberg Materials’ most important markets.
- You will partner directly with Managing Directors, functional leaders, and operations teams to identify where Digital can create the greatest value and then make that value happen through adoption, scaling, and benefits realisation.
- This is not a staff role and not a governance role.
- It is a business leadership role with real influence on P&L outcomes, transformation speed, and the long-term competitiveness of the region.
- You will be part of the local ExCom’s, ensuring Digital is represented where the most important business decisions are made.
- You will shape the regional digital agenda, influence central roadmaps through structured country feedback, and build the partnerships that turn group capabilities into local impact.