Digital Manager - Lehigh Hanson

The Role and the Company
We’re Heidelberg Materials. Our products build cities and towns, including stadiums that hold thousands of fans, and bridges that support millions of vehicles. We have nearly 9,000 employees across 450 locations in the U.S. and Canada, making us North America’s leading supplier of cement, aggregates, ready-mixed concrete, asphalt, and related construction materials.

As a new kind of team leader in the Digital NAM organization, you will be “the first of your kind” to lead a cross-functional team and empower them to deliver a value-centric digital solution alongside our industry software partners. This role reports directly to the Digital Director, has strong operational accountabilities, and requires extensive partnership with business & functional leaders, outsider software company partnerships, and global stakeholder management. The digital solution will be in the domain of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) and automating the data used to produce them from taking months to minutes to benefit our customers in the construction industry.

EPDs are emerging as a universal, credible tool driving environmental transparency in the construction sector. You will be expected to deliver value across three areas of this digital solution (1) EPD standards and requirements gathering and capturing (2) data identification and collection including embedding the processes to standardize, collect, and automate the data and enabling our systems and business to follow the standard (3) data availability including testing and quality assurance for API endpoints to be consumed successfully by our industry software partners. The scope will also span our three core product lines of cement, aggregates, and ready-mix concrete.
This role will evolve to lead the next phases of the EPD Automation product as business need and market demand start to accelerate. This role will also be part of our succession plan to build more solutions within Heidelberg Materials either in the quality and sustainability space and/or other key areas for the digital strategy on the horizon in future years to come (e.g., logistics, automation, etc.)

What you’ll get to do

• Lead a team through their processes, rituals, and disciplines as they work through tasks on their backlog, including business analysis, design, development, testing, and technical and business process documentation.

• Organize the team’s work in time-boxed orientations calls sprints typically lasting 1-2 weeks and hold spring planning meetings, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives to make continuous improvements to their ways of working. The team may also use various tools and practices to support their work, such as Jira for tracking progress, Confluence for documentation, and Kanban boards for visualizing workflow. The goal is to maintain a sustainable pace of work, adapt to changes quickly, and deliver incremental value to stakeholders regularly.

• Participate and collaborate closely with software partners in our industry and Regional Operations teams to standardize our business processes both procedurally inside the operations and technically within our landscape, so software partners can consume the data at a high level of quality, speed, and satisfaction for the next phase of the EPD automation product

• Lead analysts responsible to benchmark, translate, and document the NAM standards for data labeling, collecting, and automating data points with the support of LCA experts and quality and operations experts across the various systems and offline locations containing data on water usage, electricity usage, transportation impacts, fuel usage, waste, material, plant, production, and other kinds of items pertinent to EPD creation and accuracy

• Lead analysts responsible to collect relevant data and information for the LCA analysis and build automated data sourcing from systems and industry averages where applicable, automated data labeling of validity with confidence levels within defined thresholds, design trigger requests for manual data entry from specific data sources, determine manual data entry requirements and processes, define and ensure data storage strategy for ongoing use, replication, and maintenance

• Organize and execute the professional management of the product’s development including leading the Steering Committee, ensuring compliance with grant requirements, monitoring risks and project schedule, and ensuring high-quality output from the team

Essential Experience and Skills

• Minimum of 7 years of professional experience working in matrixed or global environments to deliver digital solutions to business users, manage priorities, stakeholders, and conflicting priorities on technical products/projects being designed, delivered, and implemented

• Minimum of 3 years success in previous leadership roles, with a history of achieving strategic goals and high-achieving team performance

• Obsession for value creation: a deep curiosity, care, and understanding of our employees’ and customers’ needs and challenges.

• Strong organizational and multitasking skills including managing projects in a DevOps or Agile-like methodology to bring incremental value quickly.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel and PowerPoint), Microsoft Teams, Confluence, and Jira.

Preferred Skills

• Advanced degree in IT, computer science, business administration, or a related field is often preferred.

• Experience or interest in the heavy building materials industry is a strong plus.

• Professional certifications (e.g., SAFe, CISSP, PMP, ITIL) can be advantageous.

• Strong interest in incorporating AI tools in your job to boost your productivity and your team’s productivity and value.

• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the aptitude to navigate complex organizational structures and build relationships with stakeholders at all levels.

• Experience with cross-functional stakeholder management and leadership through influence.

What we have to offer

• Competitive base salary

• Highly competitive benefits programs

• 401k retirement savings plan with an automatic company contribution as well as matching contributions

• Hybrid work environment