About the Role
As Head of ASML Business Services Germany, you will define and lead a newly established organization with significant strategic and operational impact across Germany. You will shape and implement a future-ready service model, align local execution with global priorities, and act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership. This role combines strategic leadership, organizational transformation, and operational excellence in a highly dynamic and international environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead a large and complex organization consisting of team leads and individual contributors (multi-layer structure; approx. 45–50 employees), ensuring strong leadership, clarity, and accountability across all levels.
- Define and execute the ABS strategy, including a multi-year roadmap (2–3 years), aligned with ASML’s global objectives.
- Drive cross-sector and cross-regional improvements on strategic topics, ensuring scalable, standardized, and high-impact solutions across Germany and global interfaces.
- Lead and drive transformative change across people, processes, and systems, establishing a culture of continuous improvement, agility, and operational excellence.
- Build and develop a high-performing, process-driven service organization, integrating functions such as HR, Finance, and other support domains.
- Act as a senior advisor and stakeholder manager, navigating complex interfaces across sectors, regions, and senior leadership levels.
- Ensure operational excellence, including KPI-driven performance, budget ownership, and reliable service delivery.
Requirements
- University degree in Business Administration, Economics, or a comparable field.
- Proven senior leadership experience in Operations, Shared Services, or process-driven environments within a global organization.
- Strong track record in leading large organizations with multiple management layers.
- Experience in HR and Finance is essential to be successful in this role.
- Demonstrated experience in organizational transformation, change leadership, and process optimization.
- Ability to drive strategic initiatives across functions and regions, with a strong focus on execution.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at executive level.
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking capabilities combined with hands-on execution mindset.
- Fluent in German and English, with outstanding communication skills.
Skills
- SAP experience is a plus.
- KPI-based performance management experience is a plus.
Location
- Berlin Neukölln
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior leadership experience
Education Level
- University degree in Business Administration, Economics, or a comparable field.
Benefits
- Job with bright future prospects at an innovation leader in the semiconductor industry.
- Flexible arrangement of your daily working hours (depending on the work area).
- 30 days of vacation.
- Reimbursement of moving expenses for you and your family (starting from 100 km distance).
- Specific advanced training and development opportunities.
- Access to organized childcare and vacation care.
- Health and sports offers (e.g. subsidy for sports activities, health days, company doctor, free vaccinations, etc.).
About the Company
- ASML is a leading supplier of lithography equipment, used by the world’s top chipmakers to print microchips that are increasingly powerful, fast and energy efficient.
- Working at ASML is inspiring, no matter what field you're in.
- We push the boundaries of technology: if it’s moving the world forward, chances are, we’re behind it.
- We’re a global team of more than 32,000 people from 122 different nationalities and counting.
- Headquartered in Europe’s top tech hub, the Brainport Eindhoven region in the Netherlands, our operations are spread across Europe, Asia and the US.
Equal Opportunity
- ASML is an equal opportunity employer that promotes equal opportunities and values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce.
- It is our company policy to recruit, hire, train, and promote individuals in all positions regardless of race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
- We recognize that diversity and inclusion are a driving force behind the success of our company.
