AI Delivery Lead

The Role

We are looking for an experienced consultant to lead a multidisciplinary delivery team responsible for provisioning the right data, in the right way, to power AI-enabled marketing and decisioning campaigns. The programme runs across interdependent workstreams, spanning the business-side decisioning rollout, the upstream data provisioning your team owns and the data and AI capability that underpins them, and the role exists to keep these workstreams moving in lockstep. This is a hands-on delivery role, not an advisory one. Success is measured by campaign-readiness: the data elements that campaigns depend on are provisioned two to three months ahead of need, with dependencies managed cleanly and escalations kept to a minimum.

Key Responsibilities

Delivery leadership

• - Lead delivery and project management within a mature Agile environment, owning outcomes end to end.
• - Act as Scrum Master for the team, running ceremonies, unblocking work and protecting delivery pace.
• - Maintain a strong execution focus, navigating a complex, multi-team programme without creating noise or escalations.

Stakeholder and dependency management

• - Build trust with business leads and translate their campaign roadmap into the upstream data dependencies your team must satisfy.
• - Manage dependencies across workstreams, actively preventing the silos that cause disjointed hand-offs between projects.
• - Work closely with business, data and technology partners to shape priorities, manage risks and track measurable outcomes.

Data and AI capability

• - Oversee data pipelines and data provisioning, ensuring the data that AI-enabled decisioning relies on is accurate, well governed and available when needed.
• - Align delivery with marketing and campaign-delivery cycles, so that data and AI capability is ready ahead of business need.
• - Lead and work within cross-functional teams of data engineers, analysts and AI specialists, strengthening the team’s data and AI capability.

Experience and Profile

• - Demonstrable track record leading a delivery pod or team in an enterprise setting.
• - Proven success bridging technical delivery and business stakeholders, ideally where parallel programmes needed to dovetail.
• - Comfortable operating in a regulated financial services environment.
• - Forward-planning discipline, managing delivery against a campaign roadmap several months in advance.
• - Experience using Agile delivery tooling such as Jira, Azure DevOps or equivalent.
• - Awareness of data pipeline and provisioning tooling.

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary. Our benefits package is designed to support your wellbeing and development. This includes:

• - Group Life Assurance
• - Virtual GP and Online Physiotherapy
• - Confidential Helpline/Employee Assistance Programme
• - Wellbeing Studio & Digital Gym
• - Discounted shopping cards, e-vouchers & cashback offers
• - Percentage discounts & savings on brands online & in store
• - Statutory pension contribution - salary exchange scheme
• - 30 days annual leave, including UK Bank Holidays