Senior AI Strategy & Transformation Consultant

CreateFuture; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

35 days leave

Private medical insurance

Parental leave

Pension match (5%)

Learning & development 40h

Job summary

CreateFuture is looking for a client-facing strategy and transformation consultant to own end-to-end workstreams, collaborating with Strategy, Design, Product, AI Engineering and client teams. You’ll shape research, run workshops, apply AI to accelerate discovery, and deliver evidence-based recommendations that unlock practical value for clients.

Based in Leeds with hybrid and travel to client sites, you’ll help grow our AI-enabled consulting practice while supporting junior colleagues and

Qualifications

• Experience in a strategy consultancy, digital agency, transformation practice or in-house strategy function, owning workstreams from brief to recommendation.
• Hands-on qualitative and quantitative research and synthesis.
• Experience contributing to new propositions, services or business models, or to organisational and digital change.
• Practical use of AI tools to speed up research, analysis and hypothesis testing.
• Confident workshop facilitation and presentation to senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Shape the research brief and methodology with minimal support, choosing the right tools and research partners.
• Lead qualitative research end to end, design and analyse quantitative research, and mine client and market data for insight.
• Frame ambiguous problems cleanly and guide others through structured analysis to evidence-backed answers.
• Question whether the stated problem is the right one, and reframe it when it is not.
• Build evidence-backed propositions and strategic directions, drawing on cultural and industry trends.
• Diagnose how the organisation needs to change across People, Process, Platforms and Products within your workstream.
• Design initiatives that are practical, scoped, sequenced and executable.
• Frame each challenge in commercial terms: the cost of standing still, the value at stake and the measurable outcome.
• Build the case for a value slice the client can see within 90 days.
• Manage timelines, budget and stakeholder expectations for your workstream.
• Design and run small to medium workshops, choosing the frameworks that move the group forward.
• Present complex ideas to senior client stakeholders, keep them engaged and handle difficult questions well.
• Shape a compelling narrative for your workstream and hold every deliverable to a high standard.
• Use AI tools (LLMs, synthesis agents, automated research) to compress discovery and free time for deeper thinking.
• Lead pilots that apply AI to strategy and transformation work, and share what holds up.
• Help clients decide where to automate, augment, orchestrate or stay human.
• Model and coach the responsible, secure use of AI, especially client data privacy and bias in LLM output.
• Coordinate project teams, give constructive feedback and support the development of junior colleagues.
• Update shared frameworks and document case studies and outcomes so the practice gets sharper.
• Spot emerging client needs and bring them to your Lead, helping position the team for what comes next.
• Contribute to proposals where your delivery experience strengthens them.

Skills

Strategy consulting

Qualitative research

Quantitative research

Workshop facilitation

AI tools

Stakeholder management

Proposal development

Mentoring juniors

Tools

AI tools

Job description

CreateFuture is looking for a client-facing strategy and transformation consultant to own end-to-end workstreams, collaborating with Strategy, Design, Product, AI Engineering and client teams. You’ll shape research, run workshops, apply AI to accelerate discovery, and deliver evidence-based recommendations that unlock practical value for clients.

Based in Leeds with hybrid and travel to client sites, you’ll help grow our AI-enabled consulting practice while supporting junior colleagues and