AI & Intelligent Automation Delivery Leader
Lisbon, Portugal
AI & Intelligent Automation Delivery Leader
- 202603672
- Lisbon, Portugal
- Full time
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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