Remote Enterprise AI Transformation Leader

Sun Chemical Corporation; Alcalá de Henares; Remote; EUR 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Sun Chemical Corporation is seeking a Director, AI Transformation & Intelligent Business Enablement to lead the enterprise AI strategy across commercial, manufacturing and functional teams. This role bridges strategy and execution, building a federated AI Center of Excellence, governance, and scalable AI pilots to drive measurable business value.

You will partner with HR, IT, legal and leadership to ensure responsible adoption and ROI realization, while navigating a global, matrixed organization

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in business / strategy transformation, leveraging technology and data capabilities, or in technology leadership roles.
• 3+ years owning direct AI/ML or advanced analytics / technical platform programs.
• Demonstrated success building and scaling an AI or data analytics Center of Excellence, and/or leading enterprise-wide digital/AI transformation initiatives.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to translate technical AI capability into commercial and operational value propositions.
• Experience working within a global, matrixed organization; comfort navigating cross-cultural and cross-regional stakeholder dynamics.
• Working knowledge of AI governance, data privacy, and ethical AI frameworks.
• Experience leading transformation initiatives.
• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or advanced degree in a related field (computer or data science, business, engineering) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the enterprise AI transformation roadmap, prioritizing use cases by business value, feasibility, and risk.
• Build and lead a federated AI Center of Excellence (CoE) model — balancing central governance, data, and platform standards with embedded business-unit ownership of use cases.
• Partner with business and functional leaders to identify and quantify opportunities for revenue growth, margin improvement, productivity enhancement and risk reduction through AI-enabled solutions.
• Partner with HR and business and functional leadership to assess workforce impacts, redesign processes and develop future-state skills and capability requirements.
• Develop the AI governance framework, including model risk, data privacy, ethical use guidelines, and compliance alignment with global regulatory requirements (e.g., EU AI Act).
• Partner with legal, privacy, IT, security and risk management leaders to establish controls addressing AI-related risks.
• Lead cross-functional AI pilots and scale successful initiatives enterprise-wide, working closely with IT, Data & Analytics, and business-unit leadership.
• Design and deliver AI literacy and capability-building programs to support adoption across varying levels of technical fluency, including for non-technical business leaders.
• Build the business case, ROI tracking, and value-realization framework and tracking KPIs for AI investments; report progress to senior leadership and SLT.
• Navigate and align AI strategy across the Sun Chemical and DIC matrix, accounting for cultural, regulatory, and operational differences.
• Stay ahead of emerging AI capabilities and vendor landscape, evaluating build-vs-buy-vs-partner decisions for enterprise tools and platforms.
• Act as a trusted advisor and change agent, helping leaders and teams move through the organizational and cultural shifts AI adoption requires.

Skills

AI Strategy

Executive Communication

Stakeholder Management

Transformation Leadership

Data Governance

AI Governance

Cross-functional Leadership

Change Management

Enterprise AI

Digital Transformation

Education

Bachelor’s degree

MBA or related advanced degree

Tools

Microsoft Copilot

Azure AI

AWS Bedrock

Anthropic Claude

Gemini

Job description

Sun Chemical Corporation is seeking a Director, AI Transformation & Intelligent Business Enablement to lead the enterprise AI strategy across commercial, manufacturing and functional teams. This role bridges strategy and execution, building a federated AI Center of Excellence, governance, and scalable AI pilots to drive measurable business value.

You will partner with HR, IT, legal and leadership to ensure responsible adoption and ROI realization, while navigating a global, matrixed organization