Hilti AG

For the sixth time in the past 11 years, Hilti has been named one of the best employers by Great Place to Work. A family-established company, we are over 32,000 employees based in 120 international locations. At Hilti, we provide leading-edge tools, technologies, software, and services for the global construction industry and beyond. Our strong customer relationships make us a partner on the job site, creating solutions that build a better future. We invest a substantial amount of our annual profit to the Hilti Foundation, which focuses on initiatives that empower people to live independently and autonomously, contribute to building stronger societies, and create networks of competent partners to achieve sustainable and scalable impact.

Career opportunities
These are just examples of the types of job opportunities the company offers. A complete overview of job opportunities can be found in the respective career portal

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Strategic Category Manager

Technical Project Leader

Software Product Owner

Global Product Manager

IT Solutions Architect

Where Your Best Belongs

At Hilti, individuals are encouraged to discover new opportunities, unlock their full potential, take charge of their professional growth, and pursue fulfilling careers.

We firmly believe everyone deserves an equal chance to thrive, regardless of background, role, or location. We are committed to a workplace where diversity is celebrated, equity ensured, and inclusion lived.

With over 32,000 team members and over 135 nationalities, we aim to make everyone feel like they belong at Hilti.
Our company is proud of our inclusive culture that empowers individuals to showcase their strengths. Our core values of courage, teamwork, integrity, and commitment drive the way we work together and help us achieve great results in a true collaborative spirit.

Find out more: https://careers.hilti.group/

Strategic Category Manager

What’s the role?

You will be accountable for the long-term supplier relationships of your portfolio to ensure best class customer service level, cost savings and resilience. You will outline sourcing strategies to support innovation and differentiation.

You will be responsible for three main areas of activity: all Supply topics of a product line, commodity management and suppliers and the coordination of improvement projects and strategies between our team and other departments. You will act as a “sparring partner” to the business unit Head of Supply at Hilti Headquarter bringing strategic, operational, and technical expertise to further improve the sourcing needs.

Who is Hilti?

For the sixth time in the past 11 years, Hilti has been named one of the best employers by Great Place to Work. A family-established company, we are over 32,000 employees based in 120 international locations. At Hilti, we provide leading-edge tools, technologies, software, and services for the global construction industry and beyond. Our strong customer relationships make us a partner on the job site, creating solutions that build a better future. We invest a substantial amount of our annual profit to the Hilti Foundation, which focuses on initiatives that empower people to live independently and autonomously, contribute to building stronger societies, and create networks of competent partners to achieve sustainable and scalable impact.

What does the role involve?

You, as a Strategic Category Manager, will act as a real “Sparring partner” to the business unit’s Head of Supply. The scope of activities is broad and can touch different areas, such as the overall business unit’s supply footprint and presentations to Hilti’s Management.

You will be responsible for the Sourcing, Purchasing & Logistics deliverables for a product line and is member of this product line project team, meaning you heavily contribute to its strategy, product development and profitability.

You will manage selected commodities of components and services and/or directly sellable products. The activities include material group strategies development, supplier relationship management, negotiations, Supply improvement projects together with different internal and external stakeholders.

By creating and implementing all activities through methods, tools and strategies you improve how supply is managed in the business unit.

What do we offer?

Join over 3000 colleagues from over 70 nationalities at one of our Headquarter locations in Schaan, Nendeln, or Buchs is more than a career move. It’s your opportunity to enjoy the energizing, alpine lifestyle - where Liechtenstein, Austria, and Switzerland seamlessly meet. It’s an unforgettable life change.
Share your interests and become a part of one of our employee groups leading change locally, for example, supporting female empowerment or the LGBTQ+ community, etc, or joining a sports group for a Wednesday mountain-bike ride or tennis match, etc. If you are passionate about giving back to the community, we have various opportunities to volunteer through our engaged beyond business program locally and internationally.
Additional benefits of our headquarters location include shared e-bikes for your commute, an on-site gym, two restaurants, language courses, learning and development training opportunities, tax insurance, financial guidance, relocation and spousal support, and more.

What you need is:

If you like working in a global team and driving a global business in a hands-on and performance-oriented culture, you will enjoy the job. If you are passionate, with high intrinsic motivation and resilient, we look forward to receiving your application.

An ideal profile brings the following:

Proven track record in strategic supply management
You have a master’s degree (MBA is an additional plus)
You have experience in cross functional work (e.g. Engineering, Marketing, Quality…) and demonstrated experience in leading continuous improvement projects.
You have a proactive personality who is open minded, creative and coupled with pragmatic hands-on operational experiences.
You have outstanding analytical skills linked with conceptual thinking capabilities.
You are fluent in English (verbally and written) with excellent communication skills. Additional languages are a plus.

Does this sound like you? We look forward to your application!

*For non-EU / EFTA citizens: Please state your eligibility status to work in Switzerland / Liechtenstein and note that if you do not own a valid Swiss / Liechtenstein work permit, Hilti cannot guarantee your final employment due to authority regulations.

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Learn more about life at Hilti Headquarters

Hilti is an equal opportunity employer.

Technical Project Leader

What’s the role?

You are part of a cross functional project team developing technology roadmaps. Your role is to lead the technical development of theproducts by steering development, testing, external/internal partners and supporting functions to achieve outstanding technical solutions. Also, you shape the technology roadmap and implementation strategy by working closely with the end- customers to understand and define their needs.

Who is Hilti?

For the sixth time in the past 11 years, Hilti has been named one of the best employers by Great Place to Work. A family-established company, we are over 32,000 employees based in 120 international locations. At Hilti, we provide leading-edge tools, technologies, software, and services for the global construction industry and beyond. Our strong customer relationships make us a partner on the job site, creating solutions that build a better future. We invest a substantial amount of our annual profit to the Hilti Foundation, which focuses on initiatives that empower people to live independently and autonomously, contribute to building stronger societies, and create networks of competent partners to achieve sustainable and scalable impact.

What does the role involve?

Incubate, develop, and mature innovative, most productive technologies. Step into the shoes of our end customers and scout new areas where our products would make fastening design more efficient and their life easier from an ergonomics, usability, and productivity perspective. Build a technology strategy and a product roadmap to drive to results. Set up, motivate, steer and support the technical team during the development process. Work closely with the internal/external partners and key stakeholders. Assess the technical maturity and the associated risk profile of the different solution. Bring in proactivity, hands-on as well as a “can do, will do” attitude to achieve outstanding results.

What do we offer?

Join over 3000 colleagues from over 70 nationalities at one of our Headquarter locations in Schaan, Nendeln, or Buchs is more than a career move. It’s your opportunity to enjoy the energizing, alpine lifestyle - where Liechtenstein, Austria, and Switzerland seamlessly meet. It’s an unforgettable life change.
Share your interests and become a part of one of our employee groups leading change locally, for example, supporting female empowerment or the LGBTQ+ community, etc, or joining a sports group for a Wednesday mountain bike ride or tennis match, etc. If you are passionate about giving back to the community, we have various opportunities to volunteer through our engaged beyond business program locally and internationally.
Additional benefits of our headquarters location include shared e-bikes for your commute, an on-site gym, two restaurants, language courses, learning and development training opportunities, tax insurance, financial guidance, relocation and spousal support, and more.

Why should you apply?

About you: you are someone who wants to get things done to deliver outstanding solutions. You have the ability to identify critical paths in projects. You are a coach, an enabler, and a team player. You like to craft opportunities and solve problems while thinking in scenarios and creating options. You are eager to structure complex technical challenges and solve them. You want to acquire and/or put in practice team management skills to steer the technical team and act cross functionally within the projects. You want to work with the technology and market leader in the anchoring business. You are excited to be part on a highly diverse and engaged team which will support you throughout your career.

What you need is:

Completed university degree (Master, PhD) in mechanical engineering or a comparable field of study
Proven professional expertise in a development department and initial detailed know-how in the technical management of projects or team lead in development
Demonstrated track record of technology strategy development
Creativity and openness to new technologies
Strong interpersonal skills to successfully perform in a global matrix environment with a target oriented, proactive, and hands-on mentality
Fluency in spoken and written English, German is a plus.

*For non-EU / EFTA citizens: Please state your eligibility status to work in Switzerland / Liechtenstein and note that if you do not own a valid Swiss / Liechtenstein work permit, Hilti cannot guarantee your final employment due to authority regulations.

Learn more about us

Learn more about life at Hilti Headquarters

Hilti is an equal opportunity employer.

Software Product Owner

What’s the role?

In this role, you will be embedded in an agile development set-up and part of an international team in our software competence center. You will be a driving force to define, specify and develop the Hilti ON!Track asset management and its IoT solutions within our team of Software Product Owners.

Who is Hilti?

If you’re new to the industry, you might not have heard of us. We provide leading-edge tools, technologies, software, and services for the global construction industry, and beyond. At Hilti strong customer relationships create solutions that build a better future, where there is pride and a sense of belonging across our 120 global locations. It’s where people explore possibilities, leverage their potential, own their personal development, and grow lasting careers.

The Global IT teams, operating from our technology hubs in Switzerland, Malaysia, and the USA, work closely together by translating the latest IT innovations into sustainable, value-creating solutions & services for our customers.

What does the role involve?

You will drive evolution of Hilti ON!Track solution, contributing with your broad experience and high level of expertise in software requirement gathering and solution design activities.
Working closely with Marketing team, you will analyze market feedback and define the product roadmap. Based on this input you will formulate user stories and work with UX/UI team to prepare visualizations.
As the customer liaison to Delivery team, you will jointly refine product backlog and prepare user stories for development. You will drive high product quality by defining acceptance criteria and performing final acceptance of sprint deliverables.
You will relay status, business impacts and system changes to team members, business partners and other stakeholders, providing strategic advice for business processes and solutions.
You will travel regularly to our software competence centers (located in Germany, India and Malaysia).

What do we offer?

You will be working with a team of people striving for excellence, with an open, inclusive, and supportive culture. Leverage your expertise and the autonomy you will get to identify the best technological solution for the customer. See the direct impact of your work.

Come to a place where you will own your development and career journey.

Work close to your colleagues at the office in Buchs, Switzerland, near our corporate headquarters in Liechtenstein. Enjoy the variety of healthy food from the campus restaurants, keep in shape at the in-house gym, or commute with our e-bikes free of charge. You will be amazed what the alpine life has to offer.
For the full range of benefits, take a look at https://careers.hilti.group/en/where-we-are/schaan-liechtenstein/

Why should you apply?

Do you have the passion to change with Hilti the way the construction industry works? By taking over this important role in the development of Hilti ON!Track you will play a decisive role.

This is one of our development positions for a future management role. Therefore, we are looking specifically for candidates who are interested in a managerial career in the long run and who have got first experience in successfully leading teams and creating sustainable impact.

What you need is:

University degree in computer science, or information technology.
At least seven (7) years of Product Owner or Product Manager (Software) experience is required.
Proven track record as product owner/manager for software applications in an agile development setup.
Strong analytical skills and the ability to set clear priorities.
High quality mindset paired with strong customer orientation, critical thinking and attention to detail.
Ability to meet deadlines and switch effortlessly between business and technical terminology.
Experience in working with software development tools (e.g., Atlassian stack / JIRA / Confluence).
Ability to effectively work with team members & customers around the globe in a virtual environment.
Effective communication skills in English.
Experience working with international teams and willingness to travel internationally.
Knowledge of the construction industry is a plus.
Experience in Internet-of-Things (IoT) domain is a plus.
During your job interview you will spend some time with us and get to know our company. Thus, you will get a feeling for the job and our corporate culture.

Does this sound like you? We look forward to your application!

*For non-EU / EFTA citizens: Please state your eligibility status to work in Switzerland / Liechtenstein and note that if you do not own a valid Swiss / Liechtenstein work permit, Hilti cannot guarantee your final employment due to authority regulations.

Learn more about us

Learn more about life at Hilti Headquarters

Hilti is an equal opportunity employer.

Global Product Manager

What’s the role?

As a Global Product Manager, you will play a key part in our dynamic, international team as you define and manage your product portfolio for the global market according to Hilti’s strategy and priorities. To accomplish this, you will interact daily with development, supply, quality management, logistics, as well as our markets around the world to bring our differentiated products and services to life for our customers.

Who is Hilti?

For the sixth time in the past 11 years, Hilti has been named one of the best employers by Great Place to Work. A family-established company, we are over 32,000 employees based in 120 international locations. At Hilti, we provide leading-edge tools, technologies, software, and services for the global construction industry and beyond. Our strong customer relationships make us a partner on the job site, creating solutions that build a better future. We invest a substantial amount of our annual profit to the Hilti Foundation, which focuses on initiatives that empower people to live independently and autonomously, contribute to building stronger societies, and create networks of competent partners to achieve sustainable and scalable impact.

What does the role involve?
In this role you will have global impact in driving a product portfolio to achieve product market leadership. You are considered the business owner of your portfolio. You will evaluate the market to identify market potential always having the customers’ needs in mind. You will work closely with local marketing organizations to define business opportunities and prioritize according to the global strategy. Also, you will monitor and evaluate competition within your portfolio. You will be instrumental in defining the product roadmap within your portfolio and the necessary develop business cases to support product development projects. You are the voice of and the voice to our market organization for the Business Unit and therewith ensure we achieve the Business Unit goals.

What do we offer?

Join over 3000 colleagues from over 70 nationalities at one of our Headquarter locations in Schaan, Nendeln, or Buchs is more than a career move. It’s your opportunity to enjoy the energizing, alpine lifestyle - where Liechtenstein, Austria, and Switzerland seamlessly meet. It’s an unforgettable life change.
Share your interests and become a part of one of our employee groups leading change locally, for example, supporting female empowerment or the LGBTQ+ community, etc, or joining a sports group for a Wednesday mountain bike ride or tennis match, etc. If you are passionate about giving back to the community, we have various opportunities to volunteer through our engaged beyond business program locally and internationally.
Additional benefits of our headquarters location include shared e-bikes for your commute, an on-site gym, two restaurants, language courses, learning and development training opportunities, tax insurance, financial guidance, relocation and spousal support, and more.

Why should you apply?

If you like working in a global team and driving a global business in a hands-on and performance-oriented culture you will enjoy the job. If you believe working with colleagues from different backgrounds and interaction across all functional levels will be enriching – join the team!

What you need is

Professional marketing or sales experience in a B2B environment
Technical degree (Mechanical, Electrical, Civil) with business know-how (MBA is a plus)
Hands-on personality, ability to inspire and motivate others
You are a team player who is ready and willing to work in a matrix organization
You have outstanding analytical skills linked with conceptual thinking capabilities.
You have a hands-on personality, ability to inspire and motivate others
Regular international business travel is required based on project timeline and targets
International mobility is preferred
You are fluent in English (verbally and written) with excellent communication skills. Additional languages are a plus.

*For non-EU / EFTA citizens: Please state your eligibility status to work in Switzerland / Liechtenstein and note that if you do not own a valid Swiss / Liechtenstein work permit, Hilti cannot guarantee your final employment due to authority regulations.

Learn more about us: https://careers.hilti.group/en

Learn more about life at Hilti Headquarters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeJPLBszc2A

Hilti is an equal opportunity employer.

Global IT Solution Architect

What’s the role?

We are looking for a Solution Architect to develop the solution architecture of our next generation digital solutions. Based on the “big picture” of business, you will create architectural approaches for software design and implementation to guide the development team.

Who is Hilti?

If you’re new to the industry, you might not have heard of us. We provide leading-edge tools, technologies, software, and services for the global construction industry, and beyond. At Hilti strong customer relationships create solutions that build a better future, where there is pride and a sense of belonging across our 120 global locations. It’s where people explore possibilities, leverage their potential, own their personal development, and grow lasting careers.

The Global IT teams, operating from our technology hubs in Switzerland, Malaysia, and the USA, work closely together by translating the latest IT innovations into sustainable, value-creating solutions & services for our customers.

What does the role involve?

You, as a Solution Architect, will drive IT agility by identifying balanced solution architectures that satisfy both functional and non-functional business requirements. Specifically, in this role you will work with the assigned project team to restructure the current software platform and design a next generation software platform that will deliver technology as a strategic advantage. This new platform will leverage advanced scalable architecture and will absorb latest technologies such as cloud computing, internet of things, machine learning and big data. It will consist of a set of microservices wrapping legacy technologies based on SAP and leverage state of the art IaaS and cloud platform technologies. It will support modernization of existing systems on S4/HANA as well as development of new platforms with best of technologies in a Continuous Delivery model, leveraging Agile and DevOps best practices. You will foster collaboration with development teams and technology vendors to ensure technology implementation.

What do we offer?

You will be working with a team of people striving for excellence, with an open, inclusive, and supportive culture. Leverage your expertise and the autonomy you will get to identify the best technological solution for the customer. See the direct impact of your work.

Why should you apply?

We have an excellent mix of people, challenging, and developing you every single day! Success at Hilti is down to teamwork and ability, no matter what your background is. Together with you, we will define the best area to start your career with Hilti – we offer Solution Architecture positions in the areas of Server & Data Center, Networks, Communication Services, Workplace, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, SAP Application Platforms, and Software Development.

What you need is

Master’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or related fields (PhD preferred)
Proven multiyear experience in a full-time technology role in software development, system integration, cloud computing or enterprise architecture
Solution Architecture experience designing and implementing complex enterprise applications; experience in the technology of distributed systems, web technologies, Microservices and API design, Cloud Application Architectures, Streaming Architectures and Kafka
Proven business acumen and customer focus providing solutions to add value
Demonstrated strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills required
Fluent in English (verbally and written)

Does this sound like you? We look forward to your application!

*For non-EU / EFTA citizens: Please state your eligibility status to work in Switzerland / Liechtenstein and note that if you do not own a valid Swiss / Liechtenstein work permit, Hilti cannot guarantee your final employment due to authority regulations.

Learn more about us: https://careers.hilti.group/en

Learn more about our Global IT Competition here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlv1hDNuVw4

Learn more about life at Hilti Headquarters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeJPLBszc2A

Hilti is an equal opportunity employer.