About us

As Head of Digital Transformation IT/OT (m/f/d)* within our Business Unit High Performance Materials, you will drive the strategic and operational advancement of digitalization across our organization. In this role, you identify and evaluate digital optimization opportunities, shape the IT/OT transformation roadmap, and ensure that digital initiatives deliver measurable business value. You combine strategic vision, strong leadership capabilities and hands-on technical expertise. In this role you lead and develop a globally distributed IT/OT Digital Transformation team while building strong partnership with stakeholder across Business Segments, Functions and locations to drive sustainable business impact.

Your Contribution

• Lead, develop and coordinate a globally distributed team of IT/OT professionals across multiple international sites, fostering collaboration, capability building and while ensuring alignment with business priorities and stakeholder expectations worldwide.
• Develop and coordinate the IT/OT digitalization roadmap together with Business, Operations, BPM and Corporate Functions, ensuring alignment with business priorities, production needs and the approved project portfolio.
• Identify, assess and structure digital business cases, including benefit and profitability evaluation, and prepare them for prioritization and decision-making within the regular project portfolio and governance process.
• Design and implement IT/OT-supported process improvements, contributing in hands-on value creation and in managing digital initiatives.
• Harmonize and optimize IT/OT solutions across sites, working closely with BPM, Operations, Sales, Finance, and Corporate Functions.
• Coordinate strategic IT/OT transformation initiatives end-to-end, aligning senior stakeholders across the Business Unit to ensure adoption, business value and sustainable resultsprojects end-to-end, from demand management and solution evaluation to stakeholder alignment and rollout.
• Act as the central interface to the OT 4.0 organization, ensuring governance, documentation standards, and capability building and drive change management, adoption and benefit tracking for digital transformation initiatives.

Your Profile

• University degree in engineering, industrial engineering, or business informatics.
• Proven leadership experience in international and matrix organization, combined with exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills across different functions, cultures and organizational levels
• Several years of professional experience in IT/OT, with a strong background in processes, project management, and implementation.
• Excellent business acumen as well as strong process and IT affinity, familiarity with ongoing process documentation initiatives is a plus.
• Extensive knowledge of Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing tools (e.g., MES), as well as very good SAP skills.
• Strong capability to operate confidently across all hierarchical levels, manage diverse stakeholder expectations, inspire teams and challenge the status quo
• Professional fluency in German and strong English communication skills.

Your Benefits

SCHOTT’s openness to promote your further development is just as great as our additional benefits. Ranging from active health management via flexible working hours and hybrid work all the way to corporate pension plans: everything geared to suit your goals and needs. Discover a special corporate culture where everyone has the opportunity to develop their entire potential.

At SCHOTT, you can expect a unique corporate culture where we emphasize equity, diversity, and inclusion. We know: motivated and committed employees are the precondition for the success of our company.

Holistic corporate health management; International assignments; Multiple career opportunities; Subsidized pension plan

Please feel free to contact us

You can expect interesting tasks and challenging projects, as well as motivated and friendly teams in fields that influence our future. Do you want to be successful with us? Then, please send us your application: SCHOTT AG, Human Resources, Eva Lemke, +496131661994

*At SCHOTT, it’s your personality that counts – not your gender, your identity, or origin.