AI Transformation Program Lead: Strategy to Execution

RWE; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life Insurance

Short-Term Disability

Long-Term Disability

401(k) match

Flexible Spending Accounts

Education Assistance

Parental Leave

Paid time off

Holidays

Short-term incentives

Job summary

RWE is seeking a Senior Program Manager to lead the AI Transformation portfolio in our Illinois operations. You will coordinate blueprinting sprints, manage cross-functional AI initiatives, and partner with business and IT leaders to deliver measurable value.

You will drive change management, track KPI performance, and ensure governance across steercos and stage-gate reviews while aligning with RWE Americas processes and timelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in business, STEM, or related field preferred.
• Minimum 7 years of relevant professional experience in management consulting, transformation program management, digital transformation, or related roles, with demonstrated experience independently driving large-scale, cross-functional AI or technology transformation programs.
• Strong program management skills, with the ability to structure and track complex, concurrent initiatives across the full program portfolio.
• Demonstrated ability to lead organizational or operational transformation efforts, including workflow redesign, business case development, and change management support, with a track record of driving adoption and delivering measurable outcomes.
• Solid project management discipline, managing own workstreams with minimal oversight and ensuring execution rigor across phases.
• Designing and operationalizing program-level value tracking infrastructure, including dashboards and metrics frameworks for program performance measurement.
• Hands-on change management capability, developing and operationalizing portfolio-level change plans into practical adoption collateral, training materials, and launch-ready execution plans.
• Working knowledge of AI concepts, generative AI, and digital product development sufficient to engage credibly with technical teams and contextualize business requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate blueprinting sprints across AI initiatives a structured process where squads work directly with business departments to identify high-value AI opportunities, build defensible business cases, and produce concrete execution plans facilitating workshops with business stakeholders, ensuring consistent application of the blueprint playbook, and translating learnings across initiatives into methodology updates that improve efficiency and scalability over time.
• Support portfolio-level AI use-case prioritization and investment decisions, synthesizing value, feasibility, and data readiness assessments across initiatives to inform steering committee approvals.
• Project manage key AI program initiatives end-to-end, from scoping and vendor selection through deployment and adoption, coordinating across business, IT, and vendor stakeholders to ensure timely delivery, and supporting RFP processes to drive well-structured, aligned decisions.
• Develop and coordinate enterprise change management frameworks across departments, driving adoption of AI-enabled ways of working through targeted interventions including training, communications, and engagement programs, and tracking impact and cost metrics.
• Support program-level resource management and portfolio ROI optimization, maintaining visibility into cross-functional capacity, monitoring cost-to-serve and value delivery, and surfacing recommendations to program leadership.
• Own portfolio analytics and KPI tracking across the AI transformation program, converting performance data including adoption metrics, value delivery, and cost-to-serve into actionable insights that inform governance and executive decision-making, ensuring alignment of value and cost tracking with broader RWE Americas processes and timelines.
• Coordinate program governance and core process rhythms (e.g., steercos, stage-gate reviews), ensuring cross-workstream reporting is consistent, timely, and aligned with program objectives and RWEA processes.

Skills

Program management

Management consulting

Transformation programs

Stakeholder management

Change management

AI concepts knowledge

Cross-functional leadership

Communication skills

PowerPoint Excel

Education

Bachelors degree in business, STEM, or related field

Tools

Jira

Miro

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

RWE is seeking a Senior Program Manager to lead the AI Transformation portfolio in our Illinois operations. You will coordinate blueprinting sprints, manage cross-functional AI initiatives, and partner with business and IT leaders to deliver measurable value.

You will drive change management, track KPI performance, and ensure governance across steercos and stage-gate reviews while aligning with RWE Americas processes and timelines.