Vice President, Digital AI Transformation

Terex Corporation•US-OH Home, OH

About The Position

Terex is seeking an experienced, business-focused executive to lead enterprise-wide digital, data, and AI transformation and accelerate measurable business value across its global organization. The role partners closely with Segment Presidents, functional leaders, and enterprise leadership to shape and execute strategies that support growth, profitability, productivity, customer experience, aftermarket expansion, manufacturing excellence, and operational efficiency. It is a business transformation leadership role rather than a traditional technology role, requiring business acumen, executive influence, AI expertise, change leadership, and the ability to drive adoption, behavior change, and measurable outcomes in a complex global enterprise. The Vice President will define and execute transformation strategies and multi-year roadmaps; advise business and functional executives; lead AI strategy, adoption, and workforce enablement; advance data strategy, governance, analytics, and business insights; and partner with business leaders to redesign processes across functions. The role also leads organizational change and adoption, manages strategic partner relationships and transformation investments, and develops a high-performing digital, data, AI, and transformation organization. Terex is a global provider of specialized equipment solutions serving sectors including emergency services, waste and recycling, utilities, and construction. The company designs and manufactures specialty vehicles and equipment and supports customers through a global dealer, parts, and service network. It operates across the United States, Europe, India, and Asia Pacific. Terex describes its culture through the Terex Way Values: Integrity, Respect, Improvement, Servant Leadership, Courage, and Citizenship, and states its commitment to an inclusive, supportive, non-discriminatory, and safe workplace.

Requirements

15+ years of progressive business and technology leadership experience, including 10+ years leading enterprise-wide digital transformation initiatives.
Recent experience leading digital, data, and AI transformation at scale, with proven success driving AI adoption across large organizations.
Demonstrated ability to partner directly with business presidents, senior executives, and cross-functional leadership teams.
Strong organizational change management, adoption, and workforce enablement experience.
Experience leading enterprise software, platform, data, analytics, automation, and digital capability transformations.
Proven track record delivering measurable business value from transformation investments.
Experience managing strategic technology suppliers, consulting partners, commercial governance, and transformation portfolios.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a global manufacturing or industrial company.
Experience deploying generative AI, AI agents, automation, and enterprise AI capabilities at scale.
Experience leading significant enterprise transformation portfolios.
Experience supporting acquisitions, integrations, or complex enterprise change.
MBA or advanced business degree preferred.

Responsibilities

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 scalable initiatives that deliver standardization and measurable enterprise value, and establish executive visibility, governance, and value-realization mechanisms.
Advise Segment Presidents, Segment Leadership Teams, functional executives, and enterprise leadership; translate business strategies and operating priorities into digital, data, and AI-enabled opportunities.
Build executive relationships, influence strategic decisions, drive enterprise alignment and business ownership, and facilitate workshops and cross-functional prioritization.
Lead the enterprise AI agenda, including strategy, roadmap, governance alignment, use-case prioritization, and scaling.
Embed AI in day-to-day operations through process redesign, automation, agentic AI, productivity solutions, and workforce readiness programs.
Drive AI literacy, change management, and sustainable adoption, measuring improvements in productivity, decision making, customer experience, and operational efficiency.
Advance enterprise data strategy, governance, analytics modernization, self-service reporting, trusted business insights, data quality, master data, semantic layers, and AI-ready data foundations.
Enable business leaders with timely, actionable information for strategic and operational decision making.
Partner with business leaders to reimagine processes across customer and 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 for adoption across segments and functions.
Lead enterprise change management, including communications, stakeholder engagement, executive sponsorship, readiness assessments, training, and capability building.
Build a transformation culture focused on innovation, experimentation, continuous improvement, adoption, and measurable outcomes.
Own executive relationships with strategic digital, data, AI, enterprise software, and consulting partners; align partner roadmaps with Terex’s transformation agenda and oversee investments, commercial governance, vendor performance, and business value.
Lead transformation portfolio governance, investment prioritization, business case development, KPI tracking, reporting, and benefits realization.
Lead, develop, and inspire a high-performing team of digital, data, AI, and transformation professionals.
Build enterprise transformation capability through talent acquisition, retention, leadership development, organizational design, succession planning, performance management, and skills development.
Develop a transformation organization recognized as a strategic business partner across Terex.