Executive Advisor – AI & Digital Transformation

Impel-Consultants; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Impel Consultants LLC in the United Kingdom seeks an experienced advisor to work with CEOs, founders, and executive stakeholders on AI adoption and digital transformation strategies.

You will translate complex business challenges into practical guidance, develop roadmaps, and support senior leaders in making credible, actionable decisions—without a formal C-suite appointment. This is a remote UK-based advisory role.

Qualifications

• Significant leadership, consulting, transformation or strategy experience.
• Excellent ability to engage senior stakeholders with credibility.
• Strong communication, facilitation and problem-solving skills.
• Professional proficiency in English

Responsibilities

• Advise CEOs, founders, and executive stakeholders on AI-related business strategy and transformation priorities
• Assess business challenges and growth opportunities where AI approaches add value
• Facilitate strategic conversations with senior stakeholders to clarify priorities, risks, and implementation considerations
• Develop practical recommendations, roadmaps, and action plans aligned to business goals
• Support leadership teams in evaluating opportunities for digital transformation and innovation
• Translate AI concepts into commercially relevant language for non-technical stakeholders
• Maintain clear records of recommendations and follow-up actions

Skills

Leadership experience

Strategy consulting

Commercial decision-making

English proficiency

Tools

Facilitation

Job description

This is an opportunity to work closely with senior decision-makers on one of the most commercially important shifts facing modern organisations: how to apply AI and digital transformation thinking in ways that improve business performance, leadership decision-making, and long-term growth.

In this role, you will advise CEOs, founders, and executive stakeholders on practical business strategy, transformation priorities, and leadership decisions connected to AI adoption. This is an advisory and consulting role, not a statutory CEO or board appointment.

Impel recruits for other employers not itself.

The Client or Stakeholder Problem You’ll Solve

Many leaders recognise the potential of AI, automation, and digital transformation, but need practical guidance on where to focus, what to prioritise, and how to translate emerging technology into real business value.

They need someone who can combine strategic judgement, commercial awareness, and leadership credibility to help shape better decisions and clearer action plans.

Why Your Background Matters

If you have built credibility in senior leadership, consulting, transformation, commercial strategy, or business improvement, that experience can be highly valuable here. You may not come from a technical AI background. What matters most is your ability to work with senior stakeholders, understand business priorities, and help turn complexity into practical direction.

Employer-provided onboarding and role‑specific support may be provided where relevant. No applicant payment, training purchase, membership fee, or programme enrolment is required to apply.

What You’ll Be Trusted To Do

• Advise CEOs, founders, and executive stakeholders on AI-related business strategy and transformation priorities
• Assess business challenges, operating models, and growth opportunities where AI-informed approaches may add value
• Facilitate strategic conversations with senior stakeholders to clarify priorities, risks, and implementation considerations
• Develop practical recommendations, roadmaps, and action plans aligned to business goals
• Support leadership teams in evaluating opportunities for digital transformation, process improvement, and innovation
• Translate emerging AI concepts into commercially relevant business language for non-technical stakeholders
• Maintain clear records of recommendations, actions, and stakeholder follow-up

Who Benefits From Your Work

Your work will support senior leaders and decision-makers who want clearer strategic direction, stronger transformation planning, and more confidence in how they approach AI-related change.

What Success Looks Like

• Senior stakeholders receive credible, practical, and commercially relevant strategic guidance
• AI-related opportunities are prioritised more clearly against business needs
• Leaders leave discussions with actionable next steps rather than broad concepts
• Recommendations contribute to better transformation planning and stronger business decision-making
• Stakeholder relationships are handled with professionalism, discretion, and consistency

What We’re Looking For

• Significant experience in leadership, consulting, business transformation, strategy, or commercial decision-making
• Strong ability to engage senior stakeholders with confidence and credibility
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and problem-solving skills
• A strategic mindset with the ability to turn ambiguity into structured recommendations
• Interest in innovation, digital change, and AI-enabled business improvement
• Professional proficiency in English
• Candidates must be legally authorised to work in the UK

Experience working with founders, SMEs, leadership teams, or growth-focused organisations would be especially valuable. Equivalent experience will also be considered.

The Opportunity

• Remote UK-based role with access to senior-level strategic conversations
• Opportunity to apply leadership experience in a future-facing business context
• Visible advisory impact on commercially important decisions
• Scope to work across strategy, innovation, and transformation themes
• A premium consulting narrative without implying a formal C-suite appointment

Sensitive identity, right-to-work, or payroll information will only be requested at the appropriate stage and where legally required.

We welcome applications from qualified candidates from all backgrounds. Selection will be based on skills, experience, and the requirements of the role.