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Head of AI Centre of Excellence
A leading global provider of new generation IT solutions to the global travel, aviation, transportation and hospitality industries is looking for a Head of AI Centre of Excellence for its consulting organisation.
Role Summary
The AI CoE Head will define and drive the enterprise AI strategy for the consulting organisation, enabling AI-led transformation internally and for customers. The role will build differentiated AI capabilities, accelerate adoption across practices and establish the consulting organisation as a recognised AI transformation partner in the travel industry.
This leader will head the AI Centre of Excellence across four core pillars:
- Solution, Capability & GTM
- Platform & Tools
- Responsible AI
- Innovation
The role requires a Europe-based leader with strong industry credibility, capable of representing the organisation in customer, partner, analyst and industry forums, while also shaping an AI-first culture across the organisation.
Key Responsibilities
AI Strategy & Transformation
- Define and execute the AI roadmap aligned to business and transformation priorities.
- Embed AI capabilities across consulting, engineering, delivery, customer experience, cloud and data practices.
- Drive AI-led productivity, quality and delivery acceleration initiatives.
- Build reusable AI frameworks, accelerators, and industry solutions for the travel ecosystem.
Lead the AI CoE
Provide leadership across four strategic areas:
Solution, Capability & GTM
- Develop AI-led consulting offerings and transformation propositions.
- Enable AI capability building across teams and practice champions.
Platform & Tools
- Establish scalable AI platforms, toolchains, copilots and reusable engineering assets.
- Drive enterprise adoption of AI development and delivery frameworks working with practices.
Responsible AI
- Define AI governance, ethics, compliance, security and risk frameworks.
- Ensure responsible and scalable AI adoption across contracts and engagements.
Innovation
- Drive experimentation, incubation, hackathons and emerging AI initiatives.
- Build partnerships across technology ecosystems, startups and academia.
- Establish and operate AI Experience Lab.
Leadership Expectations
- Represent the organisation in global AI and travel industry forums.
- Act as a thought leader and AI evangelist for customers and internal teams.
- Foster an AI-first culture and enterprise-wide AI adoption mindset.
- Collaborate across practices, delivery, sales and transformation leadership teams.
Desired Profile
- 20+ years in technology, consulting, digital engineering or transformation leadership.
- Proven experience leading AI, GenAI or enterprise AI transformation initiatives.
- Strong understanding of AI platforms, AI engineering, Responsible AI and consulting-led transformation.
- Executive presence with strong communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience in travel, aviation, transportation or hospitality domains preferred.
Location
Europe (Preferred) – remote
International travel will be required