Senior Manager Digitalization, Analytics & Artificial Intelligence (f/m/div)

Shape the future of manufacturing through Digitalization, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence. As Senior Manager Digitalization, Analytics & Artificial Intelligence, you will lead a team of experts, drive strategic transformation initiatives, and unlock business value through scalable digital and AI-driven solutions.

Your role

Key responsibilities in your new role:

• Lead and develop a high-performing team of up to 5 experts in Digitalization, Advanced Analytics, and AI, with strong focus on execution excellence, rapid delivery, accountability, and measurable business value creation
• Define and drive the local digitalization and AI target picture, roadmap, and use case portfolio - from ideation and prioritization to implementation, scaling, lifecycle management, and value harvesting - in alignment with site priorities and cross-site strategy
• Act as the local single point of contact for digitalization demand management, proactively identifying innovative use cases and translating business needs into scalable digital, analytics, ML/AI, and software solutions
• Deliver and scale cross-site solutions while ensuring operational excellence through KPI-driven management, efficient processes, and sustainable governance frameworks
• Serve as trusted advisor and key stakeholder across all organizational levels, driving strong collaboration with site management, rollout organizations, cross-site teams, and external partners
• Lead resource, project, and budget planning with a strong sense of urgency, solution-oriented mindset, and commitment to achieving ambitious operational and productivity targets
• Drive cultural transformation toward data-driven decision-making and represent both the local site and the team in strategic cross-site initiatives and technology domains

Your profile

You combine strategic thinking with a strong execution mindset and thrive in complex stakeholder environments. You are passionate about turning data into business value and empowering teams to achieve ambitious goals. With your leadership skills, entrepreneurial spirit, and customer-centric approach, you inspire others to embrace digital transformation and data-driven decision making. You take ownership, think beyond individual solutions, and focus on creating sustainable impact at scale.

Qualifications and skills to help you succeed:

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related technical field combined with a strong entrepreneurial and value-oriented mindset
• Proven leadership experience in semiconductor manufacturing, ideally within digital transformation, advanced analytics, AI, or smart manufacturing environments
• Strong ability to combine the capabilities of Team Lead, Project Manager, Product Owner, and Scrum Master with deep expertise in Digitalization, Software Engineering, Data Analytics, ML/AI, and GenAI
• Track record of delivering and scaling enterprise digitalization and AI solutions (software products and platforms) with measurable business impact and end-to-end lifecycle ownership
• Deep knowledge and proven experience in working with modern software and data and AI ecosystems, visualization solutions, interactive application, including scalable architectures and DevOps/MLOps/LLMOps practices, experience delivering GenAI applications is a plus
• Strong experience in agile delivery environments, stakeholder management, and communication with senior management and cross-functional organizations
• Proficiency with modern collaboration and development tools such as JIRA, Confluence, GitLab, and Copilot
• Fluent in English and German