Head of AI Transformation Portfolio
HybridLondon, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Develop and maintain the firm's AI transformation portfolio strategy, sequencing cross-functional priorities from business, legal, and technology domains into a coherent agenda with clear milestones and measures of success. Lead portfolio governance and decision support by maintaining the integrated roadmap, preparing recommendations for the Digital Transformation Steering Board, and ensuring visibility of performance, risks, and investment choices. Own the Central AI Team's plan, turning ambiguity into decisions by framing complex issues, defining options, and driving agreed outcomes through implementation. Establish pragmatic guardrails for AI scale-readiness, partner with client-facing leaders to prioritize high-impact use cases, and build organizational capability including workforce planning and skills development. Lead value measurement and executive reporting to track benefits realisation and adoption progress.
Required Qualifications
- Experience leading cross-functional programmes or transformation in a large, complex organisation
- Experience shaping transformation strategy or portfolio strategy and managing it through to execution
- Experience operating across strategy and execution
- Building measurement into a programme
- Using external market, competitor, client or vendor insight to inform strategic choices
- Leading and developing high-performing teams
- A track record of decisions implemented and change that lasted
- Strong enough AI fluency to engage credibly with business, technology, data, risk and security leaders
- Experience advising senior leaders on consequential decisions and bringing them clear, well-founded recommendations
- Experience resolving practical dependency blocking delivery
- Experience defining portfolio objectives, sequencing, dependencies, governance, standards, decision support, value realisation and the resolution of issues that span more than one programme
- Experience maintaining an external intelligence view across clients, competitors, vendors and adjacent industries
- Experience identifying capabilities, controls, infrastructure, governance frameworks and investment required to support AI and agentic AI at scale
- Experience establishing pragmatic guardrails that enable appropriate use cases to progress whilst longer-term foundations are developed
- Experience partnering with client-facing, legal and business services leaders to identify, prioritise and deliver the AI use cases
- Experience building the organisational capability required for AI adoption, including workforce planning, skills development, role evolution, operating model changes and the firm's AI champions network
- Experience setting and maintaining frameworks through which the transformation operates, including pilot evaluation, scaling, agentic AI governance, business case assessment, vendor onboarding, benefits measurement, responsible use and AI risk management
- Experience leading value measurement and executive reporting
- Experience leading and developing the Central AI Team, including AI Programme Managers, Change Managers and transformation specialists
- Experience being credible and confident with the most senior audiences
- Experience being a systems thinker able to see how technology, data, security, operations, workforce, client expectations, regulation and commercial objectives interact
- Experience being an agenda-shaper able to originate the right questions, define the choices that matter and move the firm beyond information sharing into debate, decision and action
- Experience building trust and consensus across functions and seniority levels
- Experience having strong judgement on priorities
- Experience being pragmatic, proportionate and delivery-minded
- Experience being an exceptional communicator
- Experience being open on background from technology, financial services, consultancy and other complex professional environments as from the legal sector
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