Head of Digital & AI

Position Overview

A leading infrastructure company is searching for a Head of Digital & AI to spearhead comprehensive digital transformation across all operational and technical departments. This critical leadership position involves formulating and executing the organization’s digital and artificial intelligence strategies, utilizing cutting-edge technologies, data analytics, automation, and AI to boost operational effectiveness, maximize asset usage, and accelerate business transformation.

Key Duties

• Develop and implement a digital and AI strategy aligned with corporate goals, identifying opportunities to apply AI, advanced analytics, IoT, automation, and digital technologies for enhancing operations, optimizing processes, and enabling informed decision-making.
• Collaborate extensively with senior management across operations, technology, data, and corporate areas to set strategic priorities and transformation roadmaps.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of multiple enterprise-wide digital transformation initiatives from concept and business justification through to deployment, adoption, and benefit realization.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams including operations, technology, data, and architecture to translate complex business needs into scalable digital solutions, driving innovation and continuous organizational improvement.
• Evaluate and pilot emerging technologies, managing proof-of-concepts to determine business impact before scaling successful innovations across the company.
• Establish governance structures to prioritize initiatives, monitor progress, and measure transformation benefits to ensure sustainable improvements and long-term value creation.
• Foster robust partnerships with senior stakeholders, technology collaborators, and external vendors while nurturing internal digital skills and promoting a culture of innovation, agility, and learning throughout the organization.

Qualifications and Experience

• 15 to 20 years of experience in leading digital transformation, technology strategy, innovation, or operational excellence in large, complex, asset-heavy organizations.
• Proven success managing enterprise-scale programs involving digital technologies such as AI, automation, IoT, advanced analytics, or smart operations with tangible business results.
• Strong leadership in managing multidisciplinary teams and large portfolios, with significant exposure to senior executive engagement and cross-functional stakeholder influence.
• Experience in operational contexts where reliability, resilience, safety, and continuous service are essential is highly advantageous.
• Excellent commercial insight, strategic vision, program management expertise, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Comfort operating in dynamic environments, balancing innovative approaches with practical execution to drive organization-wide digital adoption and change.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled operations, predictive analytics, intelligent automation, digital platforms, or enterprise transformation programs is desirable.