AIDCS Business Operations & Strategy Enablement

DealHub Ltd.; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday purchase

Private medical

Income protection

Pension scheme

Cycle to work

Life insurance

Discounts and benefits

Job summary

Lenovo is looking for a senior operations/strategy leader to drive the AIDCS portfolio across global teams from its Farnborough area. You will shape strategic priorities, translate them into executable programs, and manage performance metrics at scale.

You will coordinate with Product, Engineering, Delivery, HR, and Finance to ensure delivery excellence, leadership alignment, and tangible customer impact. This is a senior individual contributor role emphasizing strategic thinking and disciplined

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in business operations, strategy, program management, consulting, or closely related areas.
• Strong experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives in technical/engineering environments.
• Excellent communication and executive presence with ability to influence across levels.
• Ability to work independently and navigate ambiguity with sound judgment.
• Strong analytical skills with data, KPIs, and executive reporting.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage AIDCS operating cadence, leadership reviews, planning cycles, KPI dashboards, QBR materials, and leadership agendas.
• Translate strategy into executable programs, milestones, and plans while consolidating data and metrics for decision-making.
• Support senior leadership with high-impact materials, preparing analyses and briefings; manage priorities and escalate issues as needed.
• Lead cross-functional priority initiatives across the AIDCS portfolio, coordinating with Product, Engineering, Delivery, HR, Finance, and Geo teams.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and resource needs; drive resolution and improve processes for efficiency and accountability.
• Co-own the AIDCS skills transformation roadmap; partner with HR/LD to create upskilling programs and learning pathways.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communication

Independent work

Analytical skills

Job description

We are Lenovo. We do what we say. We own what we do. We WOW our customers.

Lenovo is a US$83 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #153 in the Fortune Global 500, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver Smarter Technology for All, Lenovo has built on its success as the world’s largest PC company with a full-stack portfolio of AI-enabled, AI-ready, and AI-optimized devices (PCs, workstations, smartphones, tablets), infrastructure (server, storage, edge, high performance computing and software defined infrastructure), software, solutions, and services. Lenovo’s continued investment in world-changing innovation is building a more equitable, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. Lenovo is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange under Lenovo Group Limited (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY).

This transformation together with Lenovo’s world-changing innovation is building a more inclusive, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. To find out more visit www.lenovo.com, and read about the latest news via our StoryHub.

Join Lenovo’s Solutions Services Group (SSG) and play a key role in enabling the continued growth and transformation of AI Data Center Services (AIDCS). Reporting to the Global Director, Professional Services Delivery, you will partner closely with the Head of AIDCS to drive operational excellence, strategic execution, workforce capability, and delivery of leadership priorities across the organization, including the Power Cooling (PnC) business.

As a central integrator across technical, regional, and cross-functional teams, you will help AIDCS scale its portfolio and support increasingly complex customer workloads. A major focus will be defining and delivering the capability roadmap needed to address evolving customer needs, emerging technologies, and new vertical growth opportunities.

This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who combines strategic thinking with strong operational discipline, cross-functional influence, and the ability to simplify complexity and turn strategic priorities into meaningful execution.

What You Will Do

• Strategic Operations Business Rhythm
• Build and manage AIDCS's operating cadence, including leadership reviews, planning cycles, KPI dashboards, QBR materials, leadership agendas, and key decision forums.
• Turn strategy into execution by translating high-level priorities into clear programs, milestones, and execution plans, while consolidating data, insights, and operational metrics to support effective decision-making.
• Support senior leadership with high-impact materials and follow-through, preparing presentations, analyses, and briefings while managing priorities, decision logs, actions, and commitments, and escalating emerging issues when needed.
• Strategic Initiatives Cross-Functional Execution
• Lead priority initiatives across the AIDCS portfolio, including expansion into new AI-led verticals, while coordinating closely with Product, Engineering, Delivery, HR, Finance, and Geo teams.
• Keep complex initiatives moving forward by identifying risks, dependencies, and resource needs, proactively driving resolution, and improving processes to strengthen operational efficiency, transparency, and accountability.
• Organizational Upskilling Workforce Capability
• Co-own the AIDCS skills transformation roadmap, conducting skills assessments, identifying capability gaps, and partnering with HR/LD to create targeted upskilling programs and technical learning pathways across the AIDCS solution portfolio.
• Track and measure capability development, monitoring progress and impact of upskilling initiatives to ensure teams are prepared for future-state requirements.
• Stakeholder Alignment Communication
• Act as a central coordination point across global teams and verticals, ensuring alignment on priorities and progress, building strong working relationships, and delivering clear, accurate, and consistent communication to internal and external stakeholders. Represent agreed leadership priorities across functions, resolve routine issues directly, and escalating material decisions with clear options and recommendations to support growth and customer impact.

Required Qualifications

• 5-8+ years of relevant experience in business operations, strategy, program management, consulting, technical program leadership, or a closely related area.
• Strong experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives, ideally within a technical or engineering-centric environment, with the ability to coordinate across different teams and priorities.
• Excellent communication and executive presence, with the ability to synthesize complex information, communicate it clearly, and influence stakeholders across multiple levels of the organization.
• Ability to work independently and navigate ambiguity, using sound judgment to manage priorities, make decisions, and move initiatives forward in evolving environments.
• Strong analytical skills, including hands-on experience working with data, KPIs, operational metrics, and executive-level reporting to support informed decision-making.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within AI or infrastructure-related technical domains, such as AI infrastructure, AI Factories, Power Cooling, data center infrastructure, or similar areas.
• Background in workforce capability and development, including upskilling programs, Learning Development (LD), organizational development, or related skills transformation initiatives.
• Additional experience in technical and leadership-facing environments, including familiarity with pre-sales workflows or technical consulting and experience supporting senior leadership in a rapidly evolving business environment.

What We Offer

• Holiday purchase
• Private medical
• Income protection
• Attractive pension scheme
• Positive work life balance
• Learning and development
• Life insurance
• Lenovo and Motorola products discounts
• Lifestyle discounts
• Cycle to work
• MyGymDiscounts
• Mortgage advice and support
• Referral bonus
• Free onsite parking

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any federal, state, or local protected class.