Program Manager - Business & Ecosystems Lifesciences (f/m/x)

Carl Zeiss AG; München; Vor Ort; EUR 110.000 - 160.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Carl Zeiss AG in Munich seeks a Program Manager focused on AI-enabled business solutions. You orchestrate strategic initiatives, collaborate with ZEISS business units, and drive digital transformation to deliver real customer value and measurable impact.

Driven by strong business and strategy capabilities, you lead complex programs from opportunity to scaling, balancing hype and value while guiding governance and decision-making.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years in top management consulting, corporate strategy, digital transformation, or innovation roles with exposure to AI-enabled solutions.
• Strong track record leading complex, cross-functional innovation initiatives with senior stakeholders.
• Solid understanding of AI and GenAI value mechanisms in Innovation and R&D.

Aufgaben

• Lead complex innovation programs from opportunity identification to MVP and scaling, leveraging AI to deliver measurable business value.
• Enable SBUs to experiment rapidly, bring ideas to market, and scale solutions.
• Anticipate how AI reshapes roles and customer interactions, while integrating shifts into solution design.
• Act as a thought leader and trusted advisor on digital business innovation and transformation topics.
• Define success beyond pilots, including value metrics, governance, and operating models for AI-powered solutions.
• Collaborate with ZEISS business units and Design, Data Analytics, and Cloud Engineering colleagues.

Kenntnisse

Program management

AI strategy

Strategic leadership

Stakeholder management

Digital transformation

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree or higher in business, engineering, natural sciences, or informatics

Jobbeschreibung

Your role

As a Program Manager with a strong focus on business in an AI-driven world, you operate as a strategic orchestrator and value owner. Your responsibility goes beyond strong concepts - your focus is delivering real, market-ready business solutions in collaboration with our strategic business units. At ZEISS Digital Partners (ZDP), we’re shaping the future of ZEISS through digital and AI - fast, scalable, and close to the business. Together with ZEISS business units, we drive digital and AI transformation and create innovative solutions that deliver real value for customers and the company. Our Digital Business Innovation team brings together diverse expertise to build new digital products, develop business models, and lead innovation transformation initiatives. By combining customer-centric methods with strong business and strategy capabilities, we turn ideas into impact.

You will

• Lead complex innovation programs from opportunity identification to MVP and scaling - leveraging AI to drive measurable business value, adoption, and impact
• Enable SBUs to experiment rapidly, bring ideas to market, and scale solutions
• Anticipate how AI reshapes roles, and customer interactions, while speeding up workflows and processes proactively integrating these shifts into solution design
• Act as a thought leader and trusted advisor on digital business innovation and digital transformation topics in an AI-driven world - separating hype from value and enabling informed decisions
• Define success beyond pilots, including value metrics, decision logic, operating models, and governance for AI-powered solutions
• Collaborate with the ZEISS business units as well as our Design, Data Analytics and Cloud Engineering colleagues at ZEISS Digital Partners

Your profile

You are a business expert for digital & AI innovation, comfortable navigating uncertainty, rapid technological change, and senior-level decision contexts.

You bring:

• An excellent university degree, preferable in business, engineering, natural sciences, or informatics
• 5+ years of experience in top management consulting, corporate strategy, digital transformation, or innovation roles with exposure to AI-enabled solutions
• A strong track record of leading complex, cross-functional innovation initiatives with senior stakeholders - from problem framing to execution
• Solid understanding of AI and GenAI value mechanisms in Innovation and R&D, including where automation, augmentation, and decision intelligence create real business impact
• Strong communication skills and the empathy to easily communicate with people from diverse backgrounds
• Experience with working in or with the APAC region is a plus
• Fluency in English (fluency in German would be a plus)

Your ZEISS Recruiting Team: Sabrina Rieker

Step out of your comfort zone, excel and redefine the limits of what is possible. That's just what our employees are doing every single day - in order to set the pace through our innovations and enable outstanding achievements. After all, behind every successful company are many great fascinating people. In a spacious modern setting full of opportunities for further development, ZEISS employees work in a place where expert knowledge and team spirit reign supreme. All of this is supported by a special ownership structure and the long-term goal of the Carl Zeiss Foundation: to bring science and society into the future together.

Join us today. Inspire people tomorrow.

Diversity is a part of ZEISS. We look forward to receiving your application regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, philosophy of life, disability, age, sexual orientation or identity.