Director Digital Success & Transformation Eastern Europe (fmd)

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 ExComs 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.

You will report directly to the SVP Digital Success & Transformation.

YOUR NEXT CHALLENGE

• Own and drive the digital value agenda for Eastern Europe translating digital strategy into a clear country portfolio of initiatives with quantified value cases prioritisation and delivery plans.
• Accelerate adoption and P&L impact of Heidelberg Materials digital solutions and platforms by orchestrating rollout change training and benefits realisation across countries and business lines.
• Build strong country partnerships with Managing Directors functional leaders and operations teams to identify the highestimpact 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 impactavoiding technology delivered but not adopted scenarios.
• Lead the transformation playbook for your region: standardise and replicate proven approaches (governance communication capability building superuser networks performance tracking) across countries to increase speed and consistency.
• Steer a balanced portfolio across efficiency growth customer experience and sustainability outcomesensuring alignment with enterprise platforms architecture data security and operating model standards.
• Create transparency for senior governance by providing crisp factbased reporting on progress risks adoption and value delivered; escalate early and remove barriers decisively.
• Act as the voice of the countries toward central digital teams: bring structured feedback quantify needs and help shape roadmaps so that platforms and products deliver tangible local value while staying globally scalable.
• Drive AI literacy forward across your region ensuring business leaders and teams build understanding confidence and practical skills to adopt and scale AIenabled 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.
• Contribute to savings by driving further centralisation of decentralised IT functions across countries in your region identifying consolidation opportunities and ensuring alignment with the target operating model.
• 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.
• Partner with the global Enterprise Products team and support the S4/HANA golive in your region ensuring readiness change management and successful adoption across country organisations.
• Liaise with global Operations & Services and make sure that your region receives the IT operations KPIs that your customers expectdriving accountability service quality and continuous improvement.

YOUR PROFILE

• Extensive leadership experience driving largescale digital transformation and value realisation in a complex international environment (e.g. industrial manufacturing materials or comparable).
• Proven track record of delivering measurable business outcomes (P&L impact) through digital initiativesbeyond pilots and launch eventsacross multiple countries or regions.
• Strong communicator and excellent seniorlevel stakeholder management skillsable to translate digital and AI topics into clear business language and drive decisions with transparency and pragmatism.
• Speaking next to English another language of one of the countries in your region is a strong plus
• Experience in the readymix concrete cement and aggregates business lines or comparable heavy industrial sectors.
• Strong understanding of how platforms data analytics and AIenabled 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.
• Influencing skills that go beyond formal authorityleading through conviction collaboration and trust rather than relying on solidline reporting.
• Empowering management style with a lot of energy to hustle for a better outcome for the businesscreating ownership momentum and accountability in teams.
• Financial acumen: comfort with P&L logic value cases and benefits tracking to ensure digital investments deliver measurable returns.
• A strategic yet handson leadership style: comfortable operating in ambiguity resolving conflicts and driving outcomes at pace.

OUR OFFER

We are convinced that only those who successfully realize their personal goals can also fully contribute professionally. Thats 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 campaigns
• Individual onboarding with buddy program as well as various networking initiatives (Network of Women International Network etc.)
• Modern headquarters next to the river Neckar with ergonomic workplaces and height-adjustable desks
• Canteen with discounted and healthy meals
• Bicycle and underground parking with charging stations for e-bike and car

... and much more.