AI Governance Lead — CoE & Enterprise AI Strategy

Billerud; Grums kommun; On-site; SEK 1,000,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

At Billerud we are seeking an AI Lead to shape how we adopt, govern and scale artificial intelligence across the company. You will establish and lead Billerud’s AI Center of Excellence and operate our enterprise AI governance process, coordinating AI initiatives from idea to production while maintaining control.

The role blends strategic leadership with hands-on responsibility, reporting to the Director IT Governance, Strategy and Transformation, and requires a Swedish work permit.

Qualifications

• Experience in technology governance, enterprise risk, privacy, information security, data governance, or related field, with leadership experience.
• Ability to translate strategies and legal obligations into workable controls and guidance.
• Working knowledge of AI and ML lifecycles, including generative AI and AI services.
• Understanding of EU AI Act, GDPR and cybersecurity, transparency, and accountability requirements.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and influencing senior stakeholders.
• A degree in information technology, computer science, data analytics, engineering, or 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

AI governance leadership

Enterprise risk

Strategic leadership

Cross-functional

English proficiency

Education

University degree in IT or related field

Tools

AI governance tools

Job description

At Billerud we are seeking an AI Lead to shape how we adopt, govern and scale artificial intelligence across the company. You will establish and lead Billerud’s AI Center of Excellence and operate our enterprise AI governance process, coordinating AI initiatives from idea to production while maintaining control.

The role blends strategic leadership with hands-on responsibility, reporting to the Director IT Governance, Strategy and Transformation, and requires a Swedish work permit.