AI Transformation Lead: Strategy to Implementation

MA Healthcare Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company benefits

Ownership of programme

Exposure to leadership

Job summary

Mark Allen Group is seeking an experienced Group Transformation - AI Strategic Implementation Lead to drive a major, across‑the‑group AI transformation. You will head a small implementation pod, align initiatives with our strategy and lead practical change across processes, workflows and governance.

The role operates at the intersection of strategy, transformation and implementation, reporting to the Group COO.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering complex transformation programmes involving people, process, technology and operating model change.
• Practical experience applying AI or automation to business workflows, with an understanding of its limitations, controls and adoption challenges.
• Proven ability to translate strategy into practical implementation and delivery.
• Strong structured problem‑solving and analytical capability.
• Confidence working directly with senior executives and constructively challenging established thinking.
• Experience leading complex, cross‑functional programmes, setting priorities and providing strategic oversight across multiple workstreams.
• Strong commercial judgement and an instinct for prioritising value.
• The ability to move comfortably between ExCo‑level discussion and detailed implementation.
• Experience working effectively with specialist technical teams and external consultants.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• A highly proactive, pragmatic and delivery‑oriented working style.

Responsibilities

• Set the strategic direction and priorities for the AI Implementation Pod within the wider Group transformation programme, taking accountability for its outcomes and ensuring the integrated delivery roadmap supports these objectives.
• Bring existing pilots, tools, experimentation and initiatives into the central programme where appropriate, identifying duplication, gaps and conflicting approaches.
• Connect workflow transformation, tooling and licensing, governance, policy, training, adoption and technical implementation, ensuring individual initiatives remain aligned with Group strategy and priorities.
• Provide leadership and oversight across the programme, resolve strategic priorities and escalated issues, and keep workstreams aligned with Group objectives.
• Work discipline by discipline and workflow by workflow to understand how work is currently undertaken and identify pain points, duplication, manual activity and opportunities for redesign.
• Prioritise opportunities according to strategic relevance, impact, feasibility and scalability, translating business needs into practical implementation plans.
• Lead the redesign of priority workflows, including the appropriate division of work between people, AI, automation and agentic systems.
• Identify what those changes mean for roles, responsibilities, skills and organisational structures.

Skills

Transformation leadership

AI in workflows

Strategic oversight

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Commercial judgement

Delivery oriented

Communication skills

Consultancy background

Media experience

Job description

Mark Allen Group is seeking an experienced Group Transformation - AI Strategic Implementation Lead to drive a major, across‑the‑group AI transformation. You will head a small implementation pod, align initiatives with our strategy and lead practical change across processes, workflows and governance.

The role operates at the intersection of strategy, transformation and implementation, reporting to the Group COO.