Job Description:
Position Summary
Terex is seeking an experienced, business-focused Vice President, Digital, Data & AI Transformation to lead enterprise-wide transformation and accelerate measurable business value across the global organization. This executive will partner closely with Segment Presidents, functional leaders, and enterprise leadership to shape and execute digital, data, and AI strategies that support growth, profitability, productivity, customer experience, aftermarket expansion, manufacturing excellence, and operational efficiency.
This is a business transformation leadership role, not a traditional technology role. The successful candidate will bring strong business acumen, executive influence, AI expertise, change leadership, and a proven ability to drive adoption, behavior change, and measurable outcomes across a complex global enterprise.
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is a highly credible transformation executive who has recently led large-scale digital, data, and AI transformation in a global industrial or manufacturing organization. They build trusted relationships with business presidents and executive leadership teams, drive adoption and organizational change, manage strategic partners effectively, and consistently translate digital investments into measurable business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Digital, Data & AI Transformation Strategy
Define and execute Terex’s enterprise digital, data, and AI transformation strategy.
Develop multi-year transformation roadmaps aligned to business growth, margin expansion, productivity, customer experience, and operational performance.
Prioritize initiatives that deliver scalable solutions, standardization, and measurable enterprise value.
Establish executive visibility, governance, and value realization mechanisms for transformation investments.
Executive Business Partnership
Serve as a trusted advisor to Segment Presidents, Segment Leadership Teams, functional executives, and enterprise leadership.
Translate business strategies and operating priorities into digital, data, and AI-enabled opportunities.
Build strong executive relationships, influence strategic decisions, and drive enterprise alignment and business ownership.
Facilitate workshops, executive discussions, and cross-functional prioritization to advance transformation goals.
AI Strategy, Adoption & Workforce Enablement
Lead the enterprise AI agenda, including AI strategy, roadmap, governance alignment, use case prioritization, and scaling.
Embed AI into day-to-day operations through process redesign, automation, agentic AI, productivity solutions, and workforce readiness programs.
Drive sustainable adoption through AI literacy, change management, and measurable improvements in productivity, decision making, customer experience, and operational efficiency.
Data, Analytics & Insights
Advance enterprise data strategy, governance, analytics modernization, self-service reporting, and trusted business insights.
Strengthen data quality, master data, semantic layers, and AI-ready data foundations.
Enable business leaders with timely, actionable information to support strategic and operational decision making.
Business Process & Digital Transformation
Partner with business leaders to reimagine critical processes across customer experience, dealer experience, aftermarket, manufacturing, supply chain, engineering, finance, and shared services.
Simplify workflows, eliminate redundant activity, increase automation, improve employee experience, accelerate cycle times, and enhance business performance.
Promote scalable solutions that can be adopted across segments and functions.
Organizational Change Management & Adoption
Lead enterprise change management efforts, including communication strategies, stakeholder engagement, executive sponsorship, readiness assessments, training, and capability building.
Build a transformation culture focused on innovation, experimentation, continuous improvement, adoption, and…