AI Strategy Lead

ABB; Sesto San Giovanni; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ABB Robotics seeks an Enterprise AI Transformation Lead to define and drive the company’s AI strategy across business lines and functions. You will shape the AI roadmap, governance, and investment priorities to scale initiatives from pilot to enterprise, delivering measurable value and transforming how ABB Robotics operates.

You will collaborate with senior leaders to translate emerging technologies into scalable programs, build governance and adoption capabilities, and ensure AI accelerates

Qualifications

• Degree in Business, Engineering, Technology or Data Science is required.
• Significant experience translating AI into business strategy and value.
• Experience in governance, adoption, and scaling AI initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead ABB Robotics' AI strategy: develop and evolve the enterprise AI roadmap and governance frameworks.
• Identify and prioritize high-value AI opportunities with clear business impact.
• Drive AI adoption and value realization from pilot to enterprise-wide implementation.
• Establish AI governance and portfolio transparency to reduce fragmentation across initiatives.
• Reimagine processes and ways of working to embed AI in operations and decisions.
• Connect external AI innovations to ABB Robotics' needs for competitive advantage.
• Build organizational capability for the AI era with skills and adoption frameworks.

Skills

AI strategy

Digital transformation

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Business/Engineering/Data Science

Job description

At ABB, we help industries outrun - leaner and cleaner. Here, progress is an expectation - for you, your team, and the world. As a global market leader, we’ll give you what you need to make it happen. It won’t always be easy, growing takes grit. But at ABB, you’ll never run alone. Run what runs the world.

This role sits within ABB's Robotics business, a leading global robotics company. We're entering an exciting new chapter as we’ve announced the plan for SoftBank Group to acquire ABB Robotics. SoftBank is a globally recognized technology group and investor/operator focused on AI, robotics, and next-generation computing. By joining us now, you’ll be part of a pioneering team shaping the future of robotics—working alongside world-class experts in a fast-moving, innovation-driven environment.

This Position Reports To

Business Transformation Manager

As Enterprise AI Transformation Lead, you will define and drive ABB Robotics' enterprise AI strategy, focused on how AI transforms our internal business, processes, decisions and ways of working to create measurable business value and organizational transformation. Working across Business Lines and Functions, you will identify, prioritize, and scale high-impact AI opportunities that accelerate growth, increase productivity, enhance customer value, and improve organizational effectiveness.

You will establish the enterprise AI roadmap, governance framework, and investment priorities, ensuring AI initiatives move beyond experimentation and deliver sustainable business outcomes. As a key driver of business transformation, you will help shape how AI changes the way ABB Robotics works, makes decisions, and creates value across the organization.

The location of the position is within Europe.

Working model is hybrid.

Your Responsibilities

• Define and lead ABB Robotics' AI strategy: Develop and continuously evolve the enterprise AI roadmap, aligning investments and priorities with business strategy and transformation objectives.
• Identify and prioritize high-value AI opportunities: Translate business challenges and strategic priorities into a portfolio of scalable AI initiatives with clear business impact.
• Drive AI adoption and value realization: Partner with Business Lines and Functions to move priority AI use cases from pilot to enterprise-wide implementation and measurable outcomes.
• Establish AI governance and portfolio transparency: Define governance, prioritization, and decision-making frameworks while reducing fragmentation and duplication across AI initiatives.
• Reimagine processes and ways of working: Identify opportunities to redesign business processes, operating models, and decision-making through AI rather than simply automate existing activities.
• Connect external innovation with business needs: Monitor developments in AI and emerging technologies, translating them into practical opportunities and competitive advantages for ABB Robotics.
• Build organizational capability for the AI era: Support the development of skills, mindsets, and adoption frameworks required to embed AI-enabled ways of working across the enterprise.

Your Background

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Engineering, Technology, Data Science, or a related discipline; an advanced technical or business qualification is an advantage.
• Significant experience in AI strategy, digital transformation, technology strategy, or enterprise transformation within complex organizations.
• Proven track record of translating emerging technologies into business strategy, scalable initiatives, and measurable business outcomes.
• Deep understanding of enterprise AI applications, value creation, and the opportunities and challenges associated with scaling AI across an organization.
• Experience establishing governance frameworks and driving adoption of digital, data, or AI-enabled initiatives across multiple functions and geographies.
• Excellent strategic, analytical, and commercial acumen, with the ability to prioritize investments and balance value, risk, and organizational readiness.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, including experience working with senior business and technology leaders to drive enterprise-wide change.

We value people from different backgrounds.