AI Innovation Manager -Contract

VANRATH; Slough; Hybrid; GBP 129,000 - 148,000; Part time

Job summary

VANRATH is partnering with a global organisation to appoint an AI Innovation Manager for a newly established Enterprise Innovation Lab in London. This hands-on role suits a delivery-focused consultant who thrives on turning ambiguous challenges into practical AI solutions.

You’ll work in a small autonomous team, building prototypes, testing tools, and measuring pilots against commercial outcomes while presenting results to senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Consulting background with strategy/tech focus.
• Experience building AI-enabled solutions or automations.
• Strong problem-solving and presentation skills.
• Ability to explain technical ideas to non-technical stakeholders.
• Genuine interest in emerging AI tech.

Responsibilities

• Identify AI and automation opportunities across Commercial and Operations.
• Turn ambiguous problems into clear, deliverable use cases.
• Build and test AI prototypes, agents and automations quickly.
• Apply AI-led development to speed delivery.
• Measure pilots against commercial outcomes (revenue, cost, risk, efficiency).
• Present demonstrations and recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Skills

Consulting experience

Hands-on AI prototypes

First-principles problem-solving

Technical communication

Curiosity about AI technology

Tools

Agentforce

AWS Bedrock

Microsoft Copilot

Databricks

Snowflake

Cursor

Job description

AI Innovation Manager

Location: London – Hybrid

Contract: 6 months

Daily Rate - £700-800 Inside IR35

The Opportunity

VANRATH is partnering with a leading global organisation to appoint an AI Innovation Manager for a newly established Enterprise Innovation Lab.

This is a hands-on role for someone from a strong consulting background who enjoys turning ambiguous business challenges into practical AI solutions. You’ll work in a small, autonomous team, rapidly developing prototypes and testing new technology against real commercial use cases.

What You’ll Do

• Identify valuable AI and automation opportunities across Commercial and Operations.
• Turn loosely defined problems into clear, deliverable use cases.
• Build and test AI prototypes, agents and automations at pace.
• Use AI-led development approaches to accelerate delivery.
• Measure each pilot against commercial outcomes such as revenue, cost, risk and efficiency.
• Evaluate emerging tools and recommend which solutions should progress into production.
• Present demonstrations, results and recommendations to senior stakeholders.

About You

• Consulting experience from a leading strategy, management or technology consultancy.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, short engagements and demanding delivery expectations.
• Recent hands-on experience building AI-enabled solutions, prototypes or automations.
• Strong first-principles problem-solving and presentation skills.
• Commercially minded, with the ability to communicate technical ideas clearly.
• Curious, self-sufficient and genuinely interested in emerging AI technology.

Experience with technologies such as Agentforce, AWS Bedrock, Microsoft Copilot, Databricks, Snowflake, Cursor or comparable platforms would be beneficial.

This opportunity would suit a modern, delivery-focused consultant who wants to remain close to new tools and technology—not someone focused primarily on large transformation programmes or executive-level strategy.