Vice President, Digital, Data & AI Transformation

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 measurable outcomes.

Strategic Partners, Platforms & Value Realization

• Own executive relationships with strategic digital, data, AI, enterprise software, and consulting partners.

• Align partner roadmaps to Terex’s transformation agenda, optimize technology investments, support commercial governance, and track vendor performance and business value.

• Lead transformation portfolio governance, investment prioritization, business case development, KPI tracking, reporting, and benefits realization.

Leadership & Organization Development

• 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 best-in-class transformation organization recognized as a strategic business partner across Terex.

Required Qualifications

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

Leadership Competencies

• Strategic business leadership and executive influence

• Digital transformation, AI, innovation, and value realization mindset

• Organizational change leadership and adoption discipline

• Data-driven decision making and enterprise prioritization

• Commercial, vendor, and partner management

• Customer, dealer, employee, and business centricity

If you are interested in an open position but feel you may not meet all the listed qualifications, we still encourage you to apply.

About Terex:

Terex Corporation is a global leader in specialized equipment solutions, serving essential sectors such as emergency services, waste and recycling, utilities, and construction. Our diversified portfolio positions us in resilient, high-demand markets with strong long-term growth potential.

We design and manufacture advanced specialty vehicles—including fire, ambulance, and recreational vehicles—alongside waste collection vehicles, materials processing machinery, mobile elevating work platforms, and equipment for the electric utility industry. Through our global dealer, parts and service network and true value-creating digital solutions, we deliver best-in-class lifecycle support, helping customers maximize return on investment.

With a strong manufacturing footprint in the United States and operations across Europe, India, and Asia Pacific, Terex combines global reach with local expertise to capture opportunities worldwide. Our strategy is clear: exceed customer expectations, invest in innovation, leverage our diversified portfolio, and deliver consistent, profitable growth for our shareholders.

For more information, please visit www.terex.com.

Additional Information:

We are passionate about producing equipment that helps improve the lives of people around the world and providing our team members with a rewarding career and the opportunity to make an impact.  We are committed to recruiting, engaging, developing, and retaining team members at all levels of our global workforce.  Our culture is defined by our Terex Way Values – Integrity, Respect, Improvement, Servant Leadership, Courage, and Citizenship.  Our values are the driving force behind our commitment to maintain an inclusive, supportive, non-discriminatory, and safe workplace for all team members.  To that end, we are committed to actively foster a culture where every team member feels valued, listened to, and appreciated. We are committed to being fair and impartial in our decisions. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. If you are a qualified individual with a disability, including disabled veterans, you may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to access job openings or apply for a job on this site as a result of your disability.  You can request reasonable accommodations by contacting the recruiting department (person or department) at [email protected]. 

The Company offers competitive salaries, advancement opportunities, and a full range of benefits, including paid vacation, 401(k), medical, dental, and vision.