- Company Name
- BDO
- Job Title
- Digital Transformation and AI Strategy Senior Manager
- Job Description
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**Job Title:** Digital Transformation and AI Strategy Senior Manager
**Role Summary:**
Lead the global strategy, governance, and adoption of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies across the network. Shape service‑line‑specific roadmaps, coordinate multidisciplinary task forces, and build partnerships to enable responsible, scalable AI use. Serve as the strategic bridge between technology functions and firm leadership, ensuring alignment, market awareness, and practical transformation outcomes.
**Expectations:**
- Deliver a clear, coherent AI and emerging tech strategy that aligns with firm and service‑line priorities.
- Establish and maintain a governance framework that drives responsible, measurable adoption.
- Provide expert market intelligence, partnership, and advisory services that accelerate AI integration.
- Build credibility as a trusted advisor through workshops, pilots, and use‑case development.
- Demonstrate measurable impact on adoption pipelines, capability building, and technology integration.
**Key Responsibilities:**
1. **Strategy & Governance**
- Develop the global AI and emerging tech strategy and create service‑line roadmaps.
- Coordinate network‑wide governance, connecting task forces and ensuring coherence.
- Serve as the liaison with digital and technology functions for alignment.
- Oversee responsible AI agenda: regulatory monitoring, ethical frameworks, best practices.
2. **Market Intelligence & Technology Scanning**
- Continuously scan AI and emerging tech developments, vendors, market shifts.
- Translate findings into actionable insights, pipelines, and ROI opportunities.
- Maintain an inventory of AI and emerging tech assets to identify gaps and overlaps.
3. **Partnerships & Ecosystem Development**
- Build and manage strategic partnerships with technology providers and vendors.
- Initiate demos, proofs‑of‑concept, and frontier technology pilots.
- Explore agentic AI and other frontier tech for service‑line workflows.
4. **Enablement & Advisory**
- Advise firms in developing and scaling AI use cases, focusing on responsible AI and change management.
- Run “AI Strategy Clinics” and “AI in a Day” workshops to accelerate awareness and capability building.
- Translate complex trends into practical business insights and innovation recommendations.
5. **Process Mapping & Pipeline Development**
- Collaborate with service leads to map processes, identify opportunities, and build adoption pipelines.
**Required Skills:**
- Strategic leadership in AI/EU tech strategy.
- Governance, policy development, and responsible AI expertise.
- Market intelligence, scanning, and opportunity assessment.
- Partnership development and vendor management.
- Workshop facilitation, change management, and advisory.
- Strong cross‑functional coordination and communication.
- Analytical thinking, translating trends into actionable insights.
- Project management and resource prioritization.
**Required Education & Certifications:**
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (MBA or MSc highly preferred).
- Demonstrated experience in AI strategy or digital transformation initiatives.
- Relevant certifications (e.g., Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer, AWS Certified AI/ML Specialty, or similar) are desirable.