AI Transformation Lead

About the role

Newground is looking for an experienced management consultant to act as AI Transformation Lead in Stockholm. This is a senior, client-facing role that turns AI ambition into sustained business change: shaping the agenda with executive teams, mobilizing complex programs and staying accountable from strategy through delivery and adoption.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with executive teams to define the AI ambition, target outcomes and a practical transformation roadmap.
• Assess business opportunities, prioritize initiatives and build portfolios and business cases focused on measurable value.
• Design operating models, governance, capabilities and the change approach needed to scale AI responsibly.
• Mobilize and lead cross-functional programs bringing together client teams, FDEs, data and cloud specialists and other partners.
• Steer delivery, manage risks and dependencies, align senior stakeholders and track outcomes from kickoff through adoption.
• Facilitate executive workshops and decision forums, making complex strategic and technical trade-offs clear and actionable.

Required profile

• Senior management consulting profile with experience leading AI, digital, data or enterprise transformation programs.
• Track record of owning complex client engagements from strategy and business case through implementation and adoption.
• Ability to connect business strategy, operating models, processes, technology, data and organizational change.
• Strong executive communication, facilitation and stakeholder leadership skills.
• Commercial judgment and a disciplined focus on measurable outcomes.

Required skills

• Applied understanding of AI technologies, agentic systems and data foundations.
• Judgment to challenge assumptions, guide multidisciplinary teams and translate technical choices into business decisions.