Alfred Kärcher SE & Co. KG | Germany | 70xxx Region Stuttgart | Permanent position | Full time / Home office | Published since: 12.06.2026 on stepstone.de
Head of Enterprise Technology Enablement (m/f/d)
Kärcher is the world's leading supplier of cleaning technology and stands for quality, innovation and sustainability. We owe this success to our over 3,700 employees in Winnenden and in Bühlertal and the unique Kärcher-WOW feeling. As a family company with consolidated corporate structures, we convince with WOW-tastic career prospects, a trusted working environment and great colleagues. Your mission: to lead Kärcher to the age of “Agentic AI”. Based on our successful Google Gemini rollout, you transform our global, digital ecosystem from the assisting AI to intelligent, autonomous agents. Do you want to develop our Modern Workplace as a strategic designer for the “AI-Driven Workplace” of the future? In this key position, you are responsible for the technological foundation for our global success together with your four group leaders and over 40 employees. .
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Your tasks • Your profile • What we offer
Strategic focus: As a department manager, your focus is on the strategic development of our workplace infrastructure, modern collaboration platforms and data-driven technologies. Future-oriented IT strategy & automation: You actively drive the paradigm shift in enterprise service management and process automation. You identify and scale use cases in which intelligent systems and modern automation solutions solve complex task chains independently and efficiently. Modern Workplace & Collaboration: You anchor forward-looking technologies (such as Google Gemini) deep into our collaboration platforms. The Workplace Experience group provides a powerful, modern hardware and software infrastructure that minimizes administrative burdens. Data Governance as a business enabler: Together with the Data & Analytics group, you make sure that our data platforms (Data Lake) deliver far more than classic reports. You establish robust data governance and make data available as a reliable, quality-proof basis for advanced analysis and AI models. Budget & Partner Management: As a strategic business partner for the top management, you have full budget responsibility for the department and tax technology alliances (including Google and Atlassian) to expand our technological advancement at GenAI economically and scalable.
A completed study of Computer Science, Business Informatics, AI / Data Science or a comparable qualification. long-standing, disciplinary leadership and management experience in a comparable position (e.g. Head of Digital Workplace, AI Strategy or Data & AI Enablement) in the group environment; a detectable track record in the introduction of generic AI strategies is desirable. You have extensive expertise in the design of modern workplace and cloud infrastructures as well as in the technology behind LLMs and RAG and know how Agentic workflows are implemented in complex structures in a value-creating manner. A deep understanding of Google Cloud & Workspace (Gemini) is a strong plus – alternatively, you bring the ability and motivation to quickly transfer your well-founded knowledge from other enterprise ecosystems to our Google world. With your strategic vision, you can see the difference between hype and real business value. You can sketch a roadmap that uses our high Gemini usage as a stepping stone for deep process automation. You communicate in German and English to the C-Level level and can convincingly convey the vision of an AI-empowered ''Workforce'.
Flexible design of everyday life: confidence work time and the possibility to work day by day in the home office. Enough time to see family, friends and the world: up to 32 days vacation. On Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, you're free. WOW = Job + Family: We support you in re-entry after parental leave, in the care of children and relatives - also with grants to the care costs and many other possibilities. In order to look into a secure WOW future, we will pay an annual contribution to the company pension scheme for all employees, which you can additionally increase by individual own contributions. The right people, at the right time, in the right place, with the right perspective: Sounds complicated? Not for us. We support you in your individual development with our talent management process and an extensive training offer. .
Location
![]() | Alfred Kärcher SE & Co. KG | |
| 47226 Region Stuttgart | ||
| Germany |
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