Senior AI Strategy & Transformation Leader

Emploive; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

28 days holiday

Discretionary bonus

Promotions twice a year

Pension Scheme

Investment in personal development

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Private medical insurance

Group Income protection

Life assurance

Cycle to work scheme

Season ticket loans

Regular social, cultural and charity活动

Job summary

Teneo Consulting is seeking a Senior Manager to lead complex client engagements, shape AI strategy, and drive value in partnership with Directors and Managing Directors. You will mentor junior colleagues, manage delivery, and build executive-ready insights across diverse industries.

You’ll work across AI diagnostic, strategy and transformation engagements, coordinating with client teams and external vendors to ensure adoption and measurable value realization.

Qualifications

• 7+ years’ relevant experience, ideally within a Strategy or Management Consulting environment, with progression to project or engagement leadership.
• End-to-end engagement leadership: a strong track record of leading complex client engagements or transformation programmes from problem definition and use-case prioritisation through delivery, adoption and measurable value realisation.
• Multi-party delivery orchestration: demonstrated experience coordinating delivery across a mixed ecosystem comprising delivery teams, client internal functions (business, technology and data) and external vendors or systems integrators, including vendor selection and management, cross-boundary governance and the maintenance of clear accountability in the absence of direct authority.
• Engagement management: ownership of engagement economics, including scoping, resourcing to margin, change control and the management of scope.
• Value realisation and adoption : the ability to quantify benefits at the outset and track them through to post-implementation measurement, informed by an understanding of where AI value is commonly lost (notably the pilot-to-production gap and limited adoption) and supported by the change-management discipline required to embed new AI-enabled ways of working.
• AI fluency: a sound understanding of data, analytics and AI, spanning current and emerging paradigms (generative and agentic), machine learning, data platforms and AI-enabled products, together with fluency in the AI delivery lifecycle and the principal reasons AI initiatives stall (data readiness, model performance uncertainty, proof-of-concept-to-scale attrition and adoption resistance). Deep hands-on engineering expertise is not required.
• Business-to-technology translation: the ability to convert senior stakeholder objectives into actionable roadmaps, operating models, business cases, solution requirements and measurable success metrics.
• Analytical and quantitative rigour: excellent analytical, problem-solving and quantitative skills, with the ability to move from ambiguity to a clear, evidence-based recommendation.
• Senior stakeholder management: excellent communication skills and confidence working with senior executives and cross-functional business, technology, data, risk and governance teams.
• Business development: a commercial mindset and experience contributing to proposals, pitches, thought leadership and go-to-market activity.

Responsibilities

• Structure and lead projects or major workstreams of complex engagements, working directly with a Director or MD and taking day-to-day ownership of delivery, team performance and client outcomes.
• Demonstrate a strong consulting skill set, leading complex research and analysis, translating business problems into clear hypotheses and practical solutions, and structuring high-quality written output.
• Develop the ‘answer’ from initial hypothesis through refinement and validation with senior colleagues and clients, combining rigorous analysis with sound commercial judgement.
• Lead AI diagnostic and strategy engagements, framing the problem, identifying and prioritising AI use cases, and developing the value case to inform investment and transformation priorities.
• Lead AI transformation engagements from prioritised use cases through to production, orchestrating delivery across Teneo’s AI consulting capabilities, client teams and external vendors, and maintaining a clear focus on adoption and realised business value.
• Manage case teams on a day-to-day basis, including planning and delegating workload, coordinating multidisciplinary contributors, and providing coaching and development support to junior colleagues.
• Support Directors and Managing Directors in Business Development, including identifying opportunities, developing thought leadership, drafting proposals and business cases, contributing to RFPs and SOWs, and attending pitches.
• Own day-to-day relationships with senior clients, building trust, understanding their strategic and operational challenges, influencing stakeholders, and escalating issues appropriately.
• Lead workshops and presentations confidently and engagingly, communicating complex strategic, analytical and technical topics in a clear, executive-ready way.

Skills

Strategy consulting

Project leadership

Stakeholder management

AI fluency

Business development

Analytical rigour

Commercial judgement

Problem solving

Senior stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Teneo Consulting is seeking a Senior Manager to lead complex client engagements, shape AI strategy, and drive value in partnership with Directors and Managing Directors. You will mentor junior colleagues, manage delivery, and build executive-ready insights across diverse industries.

You’ll work across AI diagnostic, strategy and transformation engagements, coordinating with client teams and external vendors to ensure adoption and measurable value realization.