Head of AI Transformation Portfolio

Overview

In this role you lead the Central AI Team and own the AI transformation portfolio, aligning strategy with business, legal delivery, technology and data. You drive governance, investment choices and readiness to deliver scalable, measurable AI outcomes across the firm. You translate AI ambition into practical programs while ensuring coordination with executive sponsors and senior leaders. The opportunity combines strategic influence with hands-on delivery to move senior groups from discussion to decision, shaping AI-enabled transformation at scale.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid/remote work
• flexible work model
• family friendly policies
• health and wellbeing programmes
• inclusive employment policies
• focus on diversity and inclusion

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the AI transformation portfolio strategy with clear outcomes, milestones and measures of success.
• Lead portfolio governance and decision support, maintain the integrated roadmap and report portfolio performance, risks and investment choices to the Digital Transformation Steering Board.
• Design governance focused on decision-making rather than reporting, with board agendas built around options, trade-offs and recommendations.
• Own the Central AI Team’s plan, prioritising and sequencing activities to progress as a single integrated portfolio.
• Turn ambiguity into decisions by framing issues, defining options and securing action through implementation.
• Lead firm-wide decisions on AI governance, supplier strategy, regulatory compliance, client commitments, policy accountability and operating model evolution.
• Maintain an external intelligence view to translate developments into portfolio implications for R&D and competitive advantage.
• Oversee AI scale-readiness agenda with CIO, CISO, data leadership and programme leads to identify capabilities, controls and investment needed for scale.
• Partner with client-facing, legal and business services leaders to identify and deliver high-potential AI use cases, while each function retains ownership of change.
• Partner with business and functional leaders to build organizational capability for AI adoption, including workforce planning and AI champions network.
• Set and maintain transformation frameworks (pilot evaluation, scaling, governance, business case assessment, vendor onboarding, benefits measurement, risk management).
• Lead value measurement and executive reporting to provide clear progress and where further decisions are required.
• Lead and develop the Central AI Team and champion transformation across the firm.

Key requirements

• Leading cross-functional programmes or transformation in a large, complex organisation
• Shaping transformation or portfolio strategy from strategy to execution with measurable value
• Advising senior leaders with clear, well-founded recommendations
• Strong AI fluency to engage with business, technology, data, risk and security leaders
• Experience operating across strategy and execution to resolve dependencies and deliver
• Building measurement into programmes to inform decisions and prioritisation
• Using external market or vendor insight to inform strategic choices
• Leading and developing high-performing teams
• Track record of decisions implemented and lasting change

• credible and confident with senior audiences
• systems thinker
• agenda-shaper
• AI fluency
• portfolio governance
• risk and security awareness

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