Function: Digital Transformation Office
Reports to: Director Digital Futures

Shape the future of digital at HBK

HBK is establishing a new Digital Transformation Office (DTO) to accelerate its transformation as a global leader in precision measurement, sensing and industrial technology.

The role is explicitly AI-first: leveraging data, AI, and platform thinking as default design principles rather than optional add-ons.

The Digital Transformation Manager is a senior, business-facing leader responsible for shaping, prioritising and delivering digitally enabled strategic initiatives across HBK. The role works at the intersection of business strategy, technology, and execution, partnering with Product, R&D, Manufacturing, Operations, Commercial and Corporate functions to:

Identify high-value digital opportunities
Translate ideas into well-defined initiatives and programmes
Oversee delivery to measurable outcomes
Establish and operate portfolio governance and PMO disciplines

Key Responsibilities:

1. Digital Strategy & Ideation

Partner with senior business leaders to identify, frame and shape digital transformation opportunities aligned to HBK’s strategy.
Facilitate ideation workshops using AI-first, data-first and platform-led approaches.
Challenge problem statements to ensure focus on business value, scalability and reuse, not point solutions.
Translate strategic themes into discrete initiatives with clear hypotheses, value drivers and success measures.

2. Initiative Definition & Business Case Development

Lead end-to-end initiative definition including:
- Problem statement and outcome definition
- Target-state processes and operating models
- Data, AI, platform, cyber and integration implications
- High-level architecture and delivery approach
Develop robust business cases including value sizing (financial and non-financial), risks, dependencies and change impacts.
Ensure alignment with HBK standards for architecture, security, compliance, and IP protection.

3. Portfolio Management & PMO Leadership

Co-define and continuously evolve the Digital Transformation PMO methodology, covering:
- Portfolio intake and prioritisation
- Funding and capacity allocation
- Stage gates and decision forums
- Benefits tracking and value realisation
Operate portfolio-level oversight across initiatives, ensuring:
- Strategic alignment
- Delivery predictability
- Dependency and risk management
Provide clear, executive-level portfolio reporting, including RAG status, value delivery, risks and decision requests.

4. Execution Oversight & Delivery Governance

Act as business owner or sponsor delegate for key initiatives.

Work with delivery teams (internal and partners) across:
- AI & data
- Platform and cloud engineering
- OT/IT convergence
- Cybersecurity
Ensure delivery teams apply modern delivery practices (Agile/Hybrid) while operating effectively in engineering and manufacturing contexts.
Actively remove blockers, manage escalations, and course-correct delivery where needed.

5. AI, Data & Platform Enablement

Embed AI as a core design principle, focusing on:
- Decision automation
- Insight generation
- Engineering productivity
- Customer value creation
Partner with AI, Data, Platform and Cyber Centres of Excellence to:
- Reuse shared capabilities
- Avoid duplication
- Accelerate time-to-value
Promote responsible AI practices, data governance, and security-by-design.

6. Change & Stakeholder Leadership

Drive strong engagement across business, engineering and technology communities.
Support adoption through change, communication and capability uplift.
Act as a visible role model for digital ways of working and outcome-led delivery.

Success Measures

Success in this role will be measured by:

Realised business value from digital initiatives
Quality and robustness of initiative pipeline and portfolio
Predictability and transparency of delivery
Executive con

Function: Digital Transformation OfficeReports to: Director Digital Futures

Shape the future of digital at HBK

Oversee delivery to measurable outcomes

Key Responsibilities:

1. Digital Strategy & Ideation

Problem statement and outcome definition

3. Portfolio Management & PMO Leadership

Portfolio intake and prioritisation

Funding and capacity allocation

Stage gates and decision forums

Benefits tracking and value realisation

Strategic alignment

Delivery predictability

Dependency and risk management

4. Execution Oversight & Delivery Governance

AI & data

Platform and cloud engineering

OT/IT convergence

Cybersecurity

5. AI, Data & Platform Enablement

Decision automation

Insight generation

Engineering productivity

Customer value creation

Reuse shared capabilities

Avoid duplication

Accelerate time-to-value

6. Change & Stakeholder Leadership

Success Measures

Function: Digital Transformation Office
Reports to: Director Digital Futures

Digital Transformation Manager at HBK - Hottinger Brüel & Kjær