Director of Smart Factory

Emerson

Director leading smart factory strategy in global manufacturing network, driving organizational change and digital transformation initiatives across multiple sites.

Posted 5/4/2026full-timeDebrecen • 🇭🇺 HungaryLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and lead the global smart factory strategy, aligned to business and manufacturing priorities across the enterprise.
Assess current-state capabilities and future-state needs across factories, warehousing, and service operations, then translate those findings into a multi-year roadmap.
Build and maintain value-based business cases, with clear financial, operational, and capability targets for each major initiative.
Establish governance to track benefits, risks, maturity, and progress against stated transformation objectives.
Lead the strategy, deployment, and continuous improvement of core smart factory platforms, including MES, MOM, WMS, automation, and connected production systems across multiple sites.
Set standards for solution architecture, interoperability, and data models to support scalable deployment and easier integration across the manufacturing network.
Partner with IT, operations, engineering, and external solution providers to deliver practical, scalable solutions that improve plant performance and support long-term flexibility.
Translate emerging technologies such as IIoT, AI, analytics, and digital thread capabilities into prioritized use cases with clear business relevance.
Define the manufacturing data and analytics strategy across production, warehousing, quality, maintenance, and related functions.
Enable real‑time operational visibility and data‑driven decision making through standardized reporting and analytics.
Partner with operations and planning leaders to strengthen capacity planning, S&OP inputs, cost models, and headcount planning through better digital insight.
Use data and digital tools to improve productivity, throughput, capacity, quality, asset performance, and labor efficiency.
Lead the organizational change management required to adopt new systems, processes, and ways of working across a global manufacturing network.
Align manufacturing, supply chain, IT, engineering, finance, quality, and operations leaders around a common digital transformation agenda.
Create a culture of disciplined execution, continuous improvement, and cross-site learning.
Foster a collaborative, high‑performance, and innovation‑driven culture across global teams.
Drive alignment and results through influence rather than formal authority.
Provide leadership across manufacturing regions in the Americas, Europe, and Asia, balancing global standards with local operational needs.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Operations, or a related field.
15+ years of leadership experience in manufacturing, operations, industrial engineering, supply chain, digital transformation, or a closely related field.
Proven track record leading large-scale smart factory, MES, MOM, WMS, automation, or related manufacturing system deployments across multiple factories or regions.
Strong experience leading cross-functional, geographically distributed teams and influencing outcomes in a matrixed global organization.
Strong knowledge of manufacturing operations, Lean principles, process standardization, and factory performance improvement.
Experience building business cases, prioritizing investments, and linking operational initiatives to measurable business value.
Demonstrated ability to drive change and influence outcomes without direct authority.
Strong communication and leadership skills across cultures and functions.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Employee development programs
Flexible work arrangements

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Hard Skills & Tools

smart factory strategymanufacturing execution systems (MES)manufacturing operations management (MOM)warehouse management systems (WMS)automationIIoTAIdata analyticscapacity planningdigital transformation

Soft Skills

leadershipinfluencecollaborationcross-functional teamworkchange managementcommunicationstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingcultural awarenesscontinuous improvement

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in EngineeringBachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Management Information SystemsBachelor’s degree in Operations