Manager, AI & Data, Data Strategist, TC UKI

CompanyEY

LocationGreater Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Posted At11/5/2025

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Description

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.

Join EY and help to build a better working world.

AI and Data Strategist

Grade: Manager

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced AI and Data Strategy Manager to help shape and deliver enterprise-wide AI transformation initiatives for clients across multiple industry sectors. This role requires a strategic business technologist who can translate AI, data and automation capabilities into tangible business value while designing the organisational frameworks needed to become an AI-first enterprise.

Impact you deliver for our clients

Define comprehensive AI, data and automation strategies tailored to client organisations across consumer products, retail, health, energy, and life sciences sectors
Conduct in-depth analysis of industry-specific value chain and identify a portfolio of high impact AI, data and automation use cases, to drive revenue growth, operational efficiency, and competitive differentiation

Assess organisational AI and data landscape maturity and create tailored roadmaps for transformation including operating models, organisational structure and capabilities required to deliver the strategy

Contribute to the development of high-level business and technology architectures and operating models that enable scalable AI deployment (encompassing both data and automation)

Lead cross-functional workshops and design sessions with senior stakeholders to align diverse stakeholder groups around a unified AI vision

Present complex AI/agentic concepts and recommendations to senior leadership audiences

Prioritise AI initiatives based on strategic value, feasibility, and organisational readiness

Drive change management initiatives to embed AI-driven and automation-enabled culture across client organisations. Ensure strategies align with ethical AI principles, regulatory compliance (e.g., GDPR, AI Act), and risk mitigation frameworks.

Essential Criteria

Proven track record of delivering enterprise-level AI strategies for complex or multinational organisations
Strong understanding of AI/ML technologies, including generative AI, predictive analytics, NLP, data and Intelligent Automation

Knowledge of modern data governance frameworks and architectures, cloud platforms, and AI infrastructure

Familiarity with AI governance frameworks, model risk management, and regulatory requirements

Soft Skills

Proven communication, storytelling and presentation skills
Proven stakeholder management skills with excellent facilitation and workshop design capabilities including ability to influence senior stakeholders
Proven ability to collaborate in multi-disciplinary teams (data scientists, engineers, business strategists)
Continuous learning mindset to stay ahead of rapidly evolving AI landscape
Strategic thinking with demonstrated ability to translate complex technical concepts into business language and explain how they drive business value

Desirable criteria

Deep sector or domain expertise in at least one of the following areas

Sector: consumer products, retail, healthcare, energy, or life sciences
Domain: Finance, Supply Chain, Commercial

Experience in designing operating models and organisational structures for data and AI, data and automation functions

Desirable Qualifications

STEM degree or an equivalent certification in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or related field
Certifications in relevant areas (e.g., cloud platforms, data governance, AI ethics, automation technologies)

EY | Building a better working world

EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.

Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.

EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.