Strategic AI Transformation Lead

Systems Limited; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Systems Limited in Kuala Lumpur seeks an AI Strategy Consultant with 8-15 years of strategy/management consulting experience to shape AI roadmaps, operating models, and prioritization turning ambition into fundable plans.

You will lead maturity assessments, design multi-horizon roadmaps, define governance, and facilitate C-suite workshops to align on AI ambition and risk. This role blends advisory excellence with change management for adoption across units.

Qualifications

• 8-15+ yrs strategy/management consulting, with 3+ yrs in AI/digital transformation.
• Working technical fluency in AI/ML architectures, model types, and data requirements.
• Skilled in portfolio prioritization and value-scoring frameworks (RICE, weighted-value matrices).
• Experience designing AI operating models, governance charters, and funding/chargeback mechanisms.
• Familiar with AI maturity models and capability diagnostic frameworks.
• Comfortable reviewing technical architecture documents and PoC results to validate assumptions.
• Working knowledge of enterprise AI/agentic platforms for build-vs-buy guidance.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI maturity assessments using structured diagnostic frameworks (capability, data, technology readiness scoring).
• Build multi-horizon AI roadmaps (12/24/36-month) sequencing use cases by value, feasibility, and dependency.
• Design AI operating models - CoE structures, hub-and-spoke or federated models, funding/chargeback mechanisms.
• Run structured use-case discovery workshops and score/prioritize the portfolio (RICE, value-effort matrices).
• Build the AI value-realization framework - KPIs, baseline metrics, post-deployment tracking methodology.
• Own AI Portfolio Management - stage-gating and reallocating investment across the use-case pipeline.
• Facilitate C-suite and board-level workshops to align on AI ambition and risk appetite.
• Own the AI adoption and change-management plan at the portfolio level.
• Manage competing executive priorities and broker consensus across business-unit leaders.
• Coach client sponsors on how to champion AI initiatives internally.

Skills

AI strategy

Maturity assessments

Roadmap design

Executive facilitation

Stakeholder alignment

Change management

Portfolio management

Communication skills

Tools

Azure AI Foundry

AWS Bedrock

Google Vertex AI

LangChain

Hugging Face

Job description

Systems Limited in Kuala Lumpur seeks an AI Strategy Consultant with 8-15 years of strategy/management consulting experience to shape AI roadmaps, operating models, and prioritization turning ambition into fundable plans.

You will lead maturity assessments, design multi-horizon roadmaps, define governance, and facilitate C-suite workshops to align on AI ambition and risk. This role blends advisory excellence with change management for adoption across units.