AIS ISC Digital & AI Capabilities, Director

We are seeking a Director to lead AIS ISC Digital & AI Capabilities, the AI, analytics, and data organization within the AIS Integrated Supply Chain. This leader-of-leaders role will oversee a team of approximately 18, including Digital Leads, Product Owners, and Data Governance specialists, supporting five core supply chain processes:
Market to Order, Forecast to Plan, Source to Pay, Plan to Produce, and Produce to Deliver. You will own the overall digital and analytics roadmap, ensuring governed KPI products, consistent data definitions, strong data governance, and trusted data foundations that enable business teams to self-serve analytics and AI solutions. A key priority will be leading Heartbeat, a unified SQDC analytics product designed to replace 500+ fragmented operational reports with a single, drillable source of truth integrated into daily management systems.

While your teams will build and own the governed KPI products, you will remain hands‑on and technically credible, able to address complex cross-process analytics, executive requests, and emerging business needs.

Lead the Organization Lead leaders. Select, develop, and grow four Digital Leads and a Data Governance Lead, with full accountability for the capability, performance, succession, and bench strength of the whole organization – Product Owners and Data Stewards included. Hold the bar through your leads. Ensure the review standard for SQL, semantic models, and metric logic is real in every pillar – sampling the work often enough to know, without becoming the bottleneck.

Build ownership, not dependency. Develop your Digital Leads’ direct relationships with their process owners and executives; measure your success by how well the organization operates without you. Own the Capabilities Portfolio – Analytics and AI One portfolio. Own a single Capabilities roadmap spanning both the certified analytics and data products and the AI capabilities built on them – agentic AI, digital twin, predictive, simulation and optimization, and generative – built from the five pillar roadmaps, synchronized with segment and region priorities and agreed with the Global Process Owners – not a collection of separate backlogs.

Make trade-offs explicit. Allocate capacity across pillars, arbitrate when demand exceeds it, and state clearly what the organization will not take on, and why. Protect the balance between running certified products, improving them, and building new capability. Deliver the Single Source of Truth Own the goal. Consolidate the Heartbeat Bowler KPIs (L0–L4) into one certified source of truth connected to daily management systems – the organization’s reason to exist.

Lead Factory Heartbeat. Deliver the unified PSQDC analytics product – single drillable dashboard, integrated action tracking linked to problem solving, real‑time data – and drive the disciplined retirement of the fragmented reporting it replaces. Advance the Digital Framework maturity. Move each process from Organized to Digitized to Connected, with certified foundational data products as the gate – and report that maturity honestly to the business.

Run the Hub, Enable the Spokes Own the fundamentals only the hub can own. Certified data products, one agreed definition per KPI, approved data connectors, platform standards, and certification – the non‑negotiables that make everything built on top trustworthy. Make the platform self‑service. Publish certified products as documented, discoverable, consumable components – through Digital Compass and the data marketplace – so business users across segments, sites, and functions build their own analyses, reports, and AI use cases on trusted foundations,…