AI & Intelligent Automation Delivery Leader

Lisbon, Portugal

AI & Intelligent Automation Delivery Leader

  • 202603672
  • Lisbon, Portugal
  • Full time
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Description

What You Will Do

 

Delivery Leadership & Execution

  • Own end-to-end delivery outcomes for AI and automation initiatives across Retirement, ensuring measurable business impact

  • Define and lead delivery strategy, governance, and execution standards across the full pipeline

  • Act as the global delivery authority, aligning priorities, resources, and execution to a single Retirement roadmap

  • Drive portfolio-level planning and prioritisation, balancing demand, capacity, and strategic priorities

  • Partner with business leadership to ensure a clear, high-quality demand pipeline

 

Automation & AI Solution Delivery

  • Lead delivery across a broad solution landscape (workflow automation, Power Platform, document intelligence, GenAI)

  • Ensure solutions are designed for enterprise scale, sustainability, and cross-market reuse

  • Provide senior oversight on solution design decisions, ensuring alignment with business and technical strategy

 

Delivery Operations & Service Standards

  • Own the design and implementation of a scaled delivery and support model

  • Establish enterprise-grade governance, controls and service standards across all AI and automation solutions

  • Ensure robust service ownership, monitoring and lifecycle management

  • Lead continuous improvement across testing, release, change, and post-implementation processes

 

Global Delivery Network & Scaling

  • Lead a globally distributed delivery capability (Lisbon and  Manila)

  • Define the scaling strategy for AI and automation delivery across regions

  • Ensure consistent standards while optimising location strategy, capacity and resilience

  • Build a model that enables rapid scaling without compromising quality or control

 

Stakeholder Management & Governance

  • Act as a senior leader and trusted partner to Retirement business leadership, Technology and governance teams

  • Influence key stakeholders on prioritisation, trade-offs and investment decisions

  • Provide clear, structured visibility of delivery performance, risks and outcomes at leadership level

  • Ensure full alignment with WTW risk, governance and Responsible AI standards

 

Team Coordination & Capability Development

  • Lead a global team, driving alignment to shared objectives and outcomes

  • Build and evolve the AI & Automation delivery capability, including structure, roles and skills

  • Drive capability maturity, embedding best practices and consistent ways of working

  • Play an active role in talent strategy, hiring and leadership development

Qualifications

What We Are Looking For

 

  • University degree is required, preferably in Technology, Engineering, Business, Management, or a related field 

  • Fluency in English, both spoken and written 

  • Experience leading delivery of automation, AI or transformation initiatives 

  • Strong project/program management capability, including planning, prioritisation, risk management and stakeholder communication 

  • Good understanding of intelligent automation concepts (workflow automation, RPA/lightweight automation, low-code platforms) 

  • Practical understanding of AI use cases in business environments (eg GenAI, document intelligence, classification, knowledge solutions) 

  • Proven ability to work across business and technical teams to deliver scalable and maintainable solutions 

  • Strong communication and influencing skills, particularly in matrix and cross-functional environments  

  • Ability to operate across global teams and different organisational structures

 

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