AI Strategy Consultant

Xebia Group

Amsterdam

Hybrid

EUR 90,000 - 130,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Xebia Group, Amsterdam, is seeking an AI Strategy Consultant to help leaders translate data initiatives into measurable business outcomes. You will co-create Data & AI strategies with client leadership, secure sponsorship across business and tech, and translate strategy into roadmaps while guiding multi-team delivery.

This role blends leadership, technology, and operating model design. You'll work on varied projects, stay close to outcomes, and collaborate with scientists, engineers, and

Qualifications

An AI Strategy Consultant who can co-create Data & AI strategies with client leadership.
Able to secure sponsorship and alignment across business and tech stakeholders.
Can translate strategy into roadmaps and orchestrate execution across teams and vendors.
Ensure governance, compliance, and long-term sustainability are embedded in delivery.
Act as trusted advisor and stay close to outcomes, not just slides.
Collaborate with scientists, engineers, and consultants to anchor delivery in strategy.

Responsibilities

Co-create Data & AI strategies with client leadership.
Secure sponsorship and alignment across business and tech stakeholders.
Translate strategy into roadmaps and orchestrate execution across multiple teams and vendors.
Ensure governance, compliance, and long-term sustainability are embedded in delivery.
Act as the trusted advisor who stays close to outcomes, not just slides.
Work hand-in-hand with our scientists, engineers, and consultants to ensure delivery is anchored in strategy.

Skills

Data & AI strategies

Executive stakeholder alignment

Roadmap translation

Governance & compliance

Cross-functional leadership

Storytelling for technical audiences

Tools

Data architecture

Operating models

Job description

Does That Sound Like You?

You are passionate about helping organizations succeed with Data & AI. You thrive at the intersection of Leadership, Business, and Technology. You don’t stop at building vision and strategy — you stay to ensure that those ideas come alive. You are energized by guiding not only the what but also the how: orchestrating execution, ensuring governance, and connecting multiple workstreams into real outcomes.

The Xebia Transformation Division

Xebia Transformation is one of the divisions of Xebia Netherlands. We help organizations turn ambitious strategies into lasting business outcomes by connecting leadership, technology, operating models, and organizational change. Within our AI Strategy practice, we support clients in building, scaling, and embedding the capabilities needed to become truly AI-driven.

We enjoy the benefits of being part of a large organization while maintaining the energetic atmosphere of a scale-up. Our commitment to our community is strong, ensuring that we are deeply rooted in the local landscape. We are highly successful in making top companies AI-driven - just think what else we could achieve if YOU joined our team!

What You’ll Be Doing as an AI Strategy Consultant

Our team has defined data strategies, uncovered and refined use cases, reorganized and led high-performing data teams, and trained C-level leaders at large corporations. Increasingly, we also ensure the strategy comes alive by managing multi-stream programs spanning data platforms, governance, tool selection, AI pilots, and organizational design.

You will be working on projects of varying length. Some are three weeks, some are one year, most are in between. Every project is different, as is every client. You'll work with the customer in teams mixed by Xebians and the client.

When on-site with clients, you may encounter something that is very difficult to solve. At Xebia we work as a team and we've got your back. Everyone is just a message away and ready to help!We say People First, and we mean it.

What are we looking for

An AI Strategy Consultant that will:

Co-create Data & AI strategies with client leadership.
Secure sponsorship and alignment across business and tech stakeholders.
Translate strategy into roadmaps and orchestrate execution across multiple teams and vendors.
Ensure governance, compliance, and long-term sustainability are embedded in delivery.
Act as the trusted advisor who stays close to outcomes, not just slides.
Work hand-in-hand with our scientists, engineers, and consultants to ensure delivery is anchored in strategy.

Please note: this role is only open to candidates who are professionally proficient in both English and Dutch.

This is your dream job if….

You are passionate about creating business impact with Data & AI.
You are able to align executive stakeholders across complex transformations and create momentum for change.
You are comfortable facilitating workshops, guiding decision-making, and bringing people together across business and technology domains.
You have a solid understanding of topics such as data architecture, data management, and operating models, and know when to involve specialized experts.
You enjoy storytelling and can translate complex topics into clear and inspiring narratives for both technical and non-technical audiences.
You enjoy contributing to and shaping Xebia Transformation’s AI Strategy proposition.
Experience overseeing the delivery or guiding the execution of strategic initiatives is a plus.

This is not your dream job if….