Management Consulting, Head of AI and Technology

The role

The Head of AI and Technology is accountable for the direction, delivery and adoption of AI across Teneo Management Consulting. This person sets the AI strategy, leads the AI Engineering team, and manages Management Consulting-specific technology, software, data, and knowledge-management workflows.

What you will do

• Own the Management Consulting AI strategy, roadmap and priorities.
• Identify and assess AI opportunities across consulting delivery and internal operations.
• Lead the day-to-day work of the Management Consulting AI Engineering team.
• Set and enforce engineering and product standards for AI solutions.
• Oversee the path from discovery and prototyping to production and retirement.
• Partner with Management Consulting leadership to translate business priorities into an AI agenda.
• Act as the principal Management Consulting stakeholder for Teneo IT.
• Own the strategy for Management Consulting-specific technology, software, data and subscriptions.
• Set the AI capability-building plan for Management Consulting.
• Ensure new AI solutions receive required Cyber Security and Risk approvals.

Required qualifications

• Substantial experience setting and delivering an AI and technology strategy in a professional services, consulting or similarly knowledge-intensive environment.
• Demonstrable experience leading multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Experience taking AI or software products from discovery into secure, supported production use.
• High practical AI fluency, demonstrated through regular use of generative AI tools and the ability to create and evaluate simple prototypes, automations or workflows.
• Evidence of converting ambiguous business needs into prioritised initiatives, investment cases, delivery plans and measurable outcomes.
• Experience of technology and data governance, including responsible AI, information security, privacy, vendor risk and approval processes.
• Experience improving data or knowledge-management workflows in a professional services or similarly knowledge-intensive environment.
• Commercial judgement in build-versus-buy decisions, vendor selection, budgets, licences, subscriptions and consumption management.
• Experience designing enablement or change programmes that produce sustained adoption.
• Experience representing a business unit in relation to centrally managed technology services.
• Strong people leader.

About the company

Teneo Management Consulting is part of Teneo. The role is an internal capability role within Management Consulting.