DATA & AI ACCELERATION MANAGER

Data & AI Acceleration Manager (m/f/d)

About the Role: 

Digital & IT is accelerating the responsible use of data, analytics and artificial intelligence across its functions. In this role, you will connect functional or market business priorities with the organization’s enterprise Data & AI strategy, capabilities and delivery model.

Responsibilities: 

• Own the function or market Data & AI backlog and its contribution to the three-year technology roadmap and annual strategic planning cycle. Partner closely with senior stakeholders to understand business priorities, identify AI opportunities and translate business needs into a prioritized portfolio of initiatives, jointly prioritizing demand with DA&I.

• Orchestrate the Data & AI portfolio, coordinating business stakeholders, BTS Owners, DA&I teams and external partners to enable effective execution, adoption and realization of business value. Existing delivery owners will retain accountability for the delivery of individual solutions

• Ensure solutions leverage enterprise architecture, data platforms, data models and reusable capabilities wherever possible. Promote the Central Data Lake Platform, Global Data Model and reusable components, helping teams scale proven solutions and avoid unnecessary duplication.

• Support responsible AI adoption by ensuring initiatives follow the agreed AI scaling process, governance guidelines and relevant Legal, Data Protection, compliance, security and risk requirements.

• Drive adoption of enterprise conversational AI and business agents, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, self-service analytics and approved data platforms, with a strong focus on active usage, innovation and realized business value. Guide citizen development so that business-built agents and solutions remain within approved guardrails.

• Own Data & AI literacy building across the IT team and business population, including AI Academy completion, playbook-based guidance, training and community engagement. Identify hackathon and AI Factory candidates, prepare business cases and supporting data, mobilize business participants, and share successful use cases and lessons across functions and the DA&I community. 

• Work closely with the BTS Corporate Functions AI Lead and other BTS functions to identify synergies, share successful solutions and accelerate AI adoption across the organization. Build and strengthen AI capabilities within the BTS P&C team, enabling the team to increasingly identify and shape AI opportunities independently.

Within your first six months, you will: 

• Build trusted relationships with functional or market leadership, business stakeholders, Data & AI teams, platform owners, BTS Owners and delivery partners. 

• Establish a clear view of the function or market Data & AI demand, active initiatives, priorities and adoption opportunities, while identifying areas where AI can generate meaningful business value.

• Take ownership of the priority AI and Data agenda, putting in place effective portfolio orchestration, stakeholder engagement and adoption routines.

• Build a strong understanding of business priorities and begin shaping a pipeline of high-value AI opportunities for the function.

Requirements: 

•  5+ years of professional experience in Data & Analytics, AI, Digital Transformation, business technology or solution delivery within a large multinational organization or consulting environment, ideally with practical experience implementing and scaling AI solutions in a business context.

• Proven experience partnering with senior stakeholders to understand business priorities, shape opportunities, challenge scope, develop business cases and prioritize portfolios. Experience working with HR / People & Culture functions would be an advantage.

• Practical understanding of enterprise data platforms, data models, analytics and reporting solutions, Generative AI and Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio, sufficient to shape solutions, challenge designs and guide citizen development. Hands-on engineering or coding is not required. 

• Strong portfolio, project or transformation-management skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple initiatives, stakeholders, dependencies and delivery teams.

• Understanding of data governance, data quality, privacy, information security and responsible-AI practices. 

• Strong maturity, entrepreneurial mindset and ability to operate independently in an evolving environment. Ability to challenge established ways of working, turn ideas into actionable opportunities and influence senior stakeholders without direct authority.

• A college or university degree, preferably in Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Business Administration or a related field; postgraduate qualifications or project/programme management or Data & Analytics/AI certifications are an advantage.  

• Fluent written and spoken English is required; a relevant local language is an advantage. Ability to manage competing priorities and drive outcomes without direct authority in a matrixed, remote organization with dual reporting lines. 

What to Expect: 

• Make your mark in a visible role, connecting business priorities with the enterprise Data & AI agenda and actively shaping how AI transformation develops within the function. 

• Bring Data & AI capabilities to life and scale their impact through collaboration with business, technology, governance and external partner teams. 

• Work with significant autonomy, identifying opportunities, building stakeholder support and helping turn emerging AI capabilities into tangible business outcomes.

• See the difference your work makes across a portfolio of initiatives—through successful delivery, adoption, compliance, stakeholder satisfaction and tangible business value.