AI Governance & CoE Lead for Enterprise AI

Billerud; Sweden; On-site; SEK 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Billerud is seeking an AI Lead to shape how the company adopts, governs and scales artificial intelligence across the enterprise. You will establish and lead Billerud’s AI Center of Excellence and govern the AI program to deliver real business value while maintaining control.

Reporting to the Director IT Governance, Strategy and Transformation, you’ll translate strategy into roadmaps, drive cross‑functional collaboration and accelerate pilots to production while ensuring compliance with EU AI

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in technology governance, enterprise risk, privacy, information security, data governance, enterprise architecture, audit or a related field, including experience in a leadership capacity.
• Demonstrated ability to translate strategies, policies, legal obligations and risk appetite into workable controls, processes, decision criteria and guidance.
• Working knowledge of AI and machine-learning lifecycles, generative AI, AI agents, embedded AI and third‑party AI services.
• Practical understanding of the EU AI Act, GDPR and AI‑related cybersecurity, transparency, human‑oversight and accountability requirements.
• Experience leading cross‑functional or federated teams and influencing senior stakeholders without relying solely on formal authority.
• A relevant university degree, or equivalent experience, in information technology, computer science, data and analytics, engineering or a related field.
• Strong written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Establish and operate AI governance. Implement and continuously improve Billerud’s AI governance framework, including implementing and leading the AI governance fourm.
• Establish and lead the AI CoE. Define the CoEs concrete responsibilities, capability roadmap, staffing model and ways of working.
• Operationalize external obligations. Translate applicable requirements—including the EU AI Act, GDPR, cybersecurity obligations and relevant responsible-AI standards—into clear internal controls, evidence requirements and practical guidance.
• Translate strategy into execution. Convert the AI strategy, technical architecture and operating-model decisions into platform roadmaps, services, standards, reference architectures and actionable delivery guidance.
• Develop approved patterns and reusable capabilities. Create reusable guardrails, decision trees and pre-approved patterns. Promote reuse to reduce duplication, delivery time and risk.
• Accelerate use cases from pilot to production.
• Manage the partner ecosystem. Coordinate technology vendors and external specialists, support build-versus-buy decisions and reduce long-term dependency by transferring knowledge into Billerud.
• Educate and advise. Provide practical guidance to Billerud employees and contribute to role-based AI literacy.
• Measure and report. Develop relevant KPIs and report to the Director of IT Governance on AI portfolio health, bottlenecks, risk exposure, overdue actions, reassessments and governance maturity.

Skills

Technology governance

Enterprise risk

Privacy

Information security

Data governance

Enterprise architecture

Audit

Leadership

English proficiency

Education

University degree in information technology or related field

Job description

Billerud is seeking an AI Lead to shape how the company adopts, governs and scales artificial intelligence across the enterprise. You will establish and lead Billerud’s AI Center of Excellence and govern the AI program to deliver real business value while maintaining control.

Reporting to the Director IT Governance, Strategy and Transformation, you’ll translate strategy into roadmaps, drive cross‑functional collaboration and accelerate pilots to production while ensuring compliance with EU AI