Head of ai transformation - ai operating partner

Head of AI Transformation - AI Operating Partner

International Business Services | London | Permanent

This is a rare opportunity to own the AI transformation agenda across a scaled, international services firm and looking for someone who has the experience to drive change and adoption across the enterprise functions and create significant benefit realisation and ROI for their AI investments.

The business has the appetite, the investment and the leadership buy-in. What they need now is someone who understands what value creation actually means and can deploy AI and automation to deliver it at pace and ensure business adoption for effective impact of new practices.

The role:

You will lead the identification, prioritisation and deployment of AI and automation initiatives across the business systems and workforce; from client-facing services through to back-office functions. This is a mandate to drive measurable, board-visible impact with a focus on real commercial outcomes for success.

• Define and drive the AI adoption roadmap across all business functions
• Identify and implement automation opportunities with clear ROI and efficiency gains
• Lead AI tooling selection, integration and change management
• Work directly with functional leaders to embed AI into service delivery
• Build the internal capability and culture to sustain AI-led transformation
• Report into senior leadership with clear value creation metrics

Must have:

• Private equity background, either from within a PE-backed business or from an Operating Partner / AI value creation plan role
• Demonstrable experience of driving value creation through AI, technology, automation or digital transformation with the numbers and outcomes to show for it
• A proven track record of delivering AI or automation transformation & adoption programmes at scale, not just designing them
• The commercial acumen to connect AI investment directly to EBITDA impact, margin improvement and operational efficiencies
• The credibility to operate at board and C-suite level and influence without authority across a complex organisation

• Preferred experience across business, services, consumer, marketing, advertising, travel, consulting with Deep understanding of AI tooling, LLMs and automation platforms in a production environment
• Experience working across multiple portfolio companies or business units simultaneously

Competitive compensation package with variance based on experience and level coming in.

Please ONLY apply, If you have driven transformation or value creation initiatives through AI or automation inside a PE-backed business or advised PE portfolio companies on exactly this and you are ready to own the outcome at scale, this could then be worth a conversation.