Director, AI Transformation & Business Enablement

About The Organization

Sun Chemical, a member of the DIC Group, is a leading producer of packaging and graphic solutions, color and display technologies, functional products, electronic materials, and products for the automotive and healthcare industries. Together with DIC, Sun Chemical is continuously working to promote and develop sustainable solutions to exceed customer expectations and better the world around us. With combined annual sales of more than $8.5 billion and 22,000+ employees worldwide, the DIC Group companies support a diverse collection of global customers.

$200,000 - $260,000

Sun Chemical, a member of the DIC Group, is a leading producer of packaging and graphic solutions, color and display technologies, functional products, electronic materials, and products for the automotive and healthcare industries. Together with DIC, Sun Chemical is continuously working to promote and develop sustainable solutions to exceed customer expectations and better the world around us. With combined annual sales of more than $8.5 billion and 22,000+ employees worldwide, the DIC Group companies support a diverse collection of global customers.

Sun Chemical Corporation is a subsidiary of Sun Chemical Group Coöperatief U.A., the Netherlands, and is headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey, U.S.A. For more information, please visit our website at  or connect with us on Linked In or Twitter

The Director, AI Transformation & Intelligent Business Enablement will lead Sun Chemical / DIC Group’s enterprise approach to applied artificial intelligence, translating AI capability into measurable business value across commercial, manufacturing, and functional teams. This role bridges strategy and execution: identifying high-value AI opportunities, building the operating model and governance to scale them responsibly, and partnering across a complex global, matrixed organization to drive adoption.

The successful candidate will reframe AI from a technology initiative to a decision‑intelligence capability that strengthens the way the enterprise plans, decides, and operates.

• Define and own the enterprise AI transformation roadmap, prioritizing use cases by business value, feasibility, and risk.
• Build and lead a federated AI Center of Excellence (CoE) model — balancing central governance, data, and platform standards with embedded business‑unit ownership of use cases.
• Partner with business and functional leaders to identify and quantify opportunities for revenue growth, margin improvement, productivity enhancement and risk reduction through AI-enabled solutions.
• Partner with HR and business and functional leadership to assess workforce impacts, redesign processes and develop future‑state skills and capability requirements.
• Develop the AI governance framework, including model risk, data privacy, ethical use guidelines, and compliance alignment with global regulatory requirements (e.g., EU AI Act).
• Partner with legal, privacy, IT, security and risk management leaders to establish controls addressing AI‑related risks.
• Lead cross‑functional AI pilots and scale successful initiatives enterprise‑wide, working closely with IT, Data & Analytics, and business‑unit leadership.
• Design and deliver AI literacy and capability‑building programs to support adoption across varying levels of technical fluency, including for non‑technical business leaders.
• Build the business case, ROI tracking, and value‑realization framework and tracking KPIs for AI investments; report progress to senior leadership and SLT.
• Navigate and align AI strategy across the Sun Chemical and DIC matrix, accounting for cultural, regulatory, and operational differences.
• Stay ahead of emerging AI capabilities and vendor landscape, evaluating build‑vs‑buy‑vs‑partner decisions for enterprise tools and platforms.
• Act as a trusted advisor and change agent, helping leaders and teams move through the organizational and cultural shifts AI adoption requires.

• 10+ years of progressive experience in business / strategy transformation, leveraging technology and data capabilities, or in technology…