Company: Vaillant GmbH Location: Remscheid-DEU Country: Germany (DE) Brand: Vaillant Group
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Contract type: Permanent Working time: Full-time
Overview
In your role as Head of Group IT – Data Management, you ensure that Vaillant Group’s data becomes a strategic asset that empowers innovation, analytics, and digital transformation worldwide. You make a meaningful difference by creating trust in data across the entire organization.
Responsibilities
- Developing and implementing a global Data Management strategy that aligns with our Group IT vision and advances enterprise-wide digital transformation
- Translating the DAMA DMBOK framework into practical, scalable standards and governance structures that strengthen global data ownership and ensure reliable, high‑quality data
- Contributing domain expertise to evolve our data and analytics roadmap, including data catalogue platform improvements, governance enhancements, and enterprise-wide data quality initiatives
- Driving key Data Management disciplines such as data governance, data quality, metadata management, master and reference data management, and lifecycle management to enable new digital use cases such as artificial intelligence and automation
- Evaluating emerging technologies and collaborating closely with architecture, cybersecurity, and business functions to ensure compliant, secure, and efficient Data Management operations across all regions
- Leading and empowering a global team of Data Management and governance specialists while fostering a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement
Qualifications
- Hold a master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, Business Administration, or a comparable field
- Bring more than ten years of experience in Data Management, Master Data Management, or Data Governance in large international organizations, including several years of leadership responsibility
- Have deep expertise in enterprise Data Management, especially DAMA DMBOK, and be confident working with data modeling, metadata standards, integration patterns, and modern data platforms
- Good knowledge of preparing data for artificial intelligence, machine learning, and analytics use cases (nice to have)
- Skill at guiding diverse stakeholder groups, navigating complex organizations, and driving change with empathy, clarity, and strong communication
- Communicate fluently in English; additional European languages are an advantage
What You Can Count On
- Hybrid Work: Opportunity to work on a hybrid basis, with the option to temporarily work from a country within the European Union
- Buy vacation days: The chance to purchase additional vacation days for extended breaks
- Onboarding: A clearly structured onboarding process, including an Onboarding App, to integrate new employees quickly and effectively
- Health management: Comprehensive preventive health counseling and measures
- Individual development: Development programs "GROW, EVOLVE, LEAD and EXCEL" to prepare you for the next step in your career
What Makes Us Special
We take care of a better climate, in every home and our environment. As a successful family business, we have lived up to this claim for over 150 years. We are one of the world's leading providers of heat pumps, digital services and efficient gas heating appliances and offer energy‑saving solutions. At the Vaillant Group, sustainability is visible in the office, production sites and on the road. Around 16,000 employees from over 70 countries commit to this everyday. As an international team, we take responsibility for our future and that of our planet, promoting personal development so you can act with passion and help shape a better climate.
We promote equity and do not tolerate any form of discrimination. xayajpt We value the uniqueness of each individual and encourage all people to apply.
Contact
Svetlina Klose
