Digital Partner Head, Taste Texture & Health Business Unit

Opportunity at dsm-firmenich

Shape and lead the Digital & Technology strategy for the Taste, Texture & Health Business Unit as Digital Partner Head, Taste Texture & Health Business Unit. As a true Business Partner in this strategic role, you’ll translate business priorities into impactful digital initiatives, drive innovation, orchestrate a multi-year roadmap, and deliver measurable business value while partnering closely with senior leaders across a global organization.

Your key responsibilities

• Act as the Digital & Technology leader (CIO/CTO) for TTH, fully understanding the business strategy, its value drivers, and where the business intends to win across markets and capabilities.
• Translate business strategy into a clear digital vision and roadmap, defining what needs to be delivered from a technology, data, and platform perspective to enable growth, innovation, and efficiency.
• Take an end-to-end view of the value chain, from innovation to go-to-market, identifying where digital, data, and AI can create the greatest impact and competitive advantage.
• Assess the current technology landscape and define target state architectures, ensuring the right balance between leveraging existing capabilities, scaling best practices, and introducing new solutions.
• Lead and orchestrate the Digital & Tech portfolio, ensuring prioritization and execution are fully aligned with business unit needs while also representing and embedding global D&T strategy.
• Drive large-scale business transformations, including ERP and AI initiatives, positioning them as business transformation programs rather than purely technology deployments.
• Foster strong collaboration across a complex matrix organization, working closely with Global Functions, GOEs, Manufacturing, and Digital teams to ensure alignment, scalability, and reuse of solutions.
• Balance strategic leadership with hands-on engagement, spending the majority of time shaping direction and value while also ensuring clear translation into actionable plans and execution discipline.

We offer

• Unique career paths across health, nutrition and beauty, with support to explore what drives you and make it happen.
• A chance to impact millions of consumers every day, with sustainability embedded in all we do.
• A science-led company with cutting-edge research and creativity everywhere, from biotech breakthroughs to sustainability game-changers, where you’ll work on what’s next.
• Growth that keeps up with you, joining an industry leader that will develop your expertise and leadership.
• A culture that lifts you up, with collaborative teams, shared wins, and people who cheer each other on.
• A community where your voice matters and is essential to serving customers well.

You bring

• Extensive experience in Digital & Technology leadership, including acting as a business partner or in a CIO/CTO-like role within a business unit or complex organization.
• Strong business acumen, with the ability to understand strategy, value drivers, and end-to-end value chains, including go-to-market, supply chain, and operations.
• Proven ability to translate business strategy into digital strategy and execution, including roadmap development and value realization.
• Experience leading large-scale transformation programs, particularly ERP and enterprise-wide digital transformations, with a strong focus on business outcomes.
• Solid understanding of modern technologies, including digital platforms, data, and AI, with the ability to identify when and how to apply them pragmatically.
• Ability to operate effectively in a global matrix environment, balancing business unit priorities with enterprise-wide objectives.
• Strong collaboration and influencing skills, with the ability to work across functions, align stakeholders, and leverage broader D&T capabilities and delivery organizations.
• Hands-on and pragmatic mindset, able to move between strategic thinking and operational execution, ensuring ideas are translated into tangible results.

About dsm-firmenich

At dsm-firmenich, we don’t just meet expectations – we go beyond them. Join a global team powered by science, creativity, and a shared purpose: to bring progress to life.

From elevating health to making fortified food and sustainable skincare, the impact of your work here will be felt by millions every single day. Whether it’s fragrance that helps you focus, alternative meat that’s better for the planet, or reducing sugar without losing flavor, this is where you help shape the future of nutrition, health, and beauty for everyone, everywhere.

And while you’re making a difference, you’ll keep growing too, with learning that never stops, a culture that lifts you up, and the freedom to move across businesses, teams, and borders. Your voice matters here, and your ideas are essential to the future.