Senior AI Transformation Consultant

Location: London / Remote (UK-based, with regular visits to client sites) 

Reports to: Chief AI Officer

Hours: 37.5  per week

Salary: Competitive base + performance bonus tied to project delivery and value creation 

Role Overview 

This is a dynamic role within Cambridge Spark’s growing AI Transformation practice. As a Senior AI Transformation Consultant, you will be on the front lines of innovation, working directly with our most prestigious clients to bridge the gap between technical capability and business value.

You will guide executive stakeholders through the complexities of the AI landscape, identifying high-impact opportunities, defining robust business cases, and overseeing the successful deployment of AI solutions. This role is perfect for a high-performing professional with a strong technical foundation with significant industry experience who wants to move into a strategic advisory and delivery capacity.

• Executive Advisory & Value Discovery: Partner with client executives to identify areas where AI can drive significant business value, improve operational efficiency, or enable new business models.
• Solution Scoping & Business Case Definition: Translate business challenges into technical requirements. Using your industry experience and technical background, you will define the scope of AI projects, estimate ROI, and build the business cases necessary to secure internal buy-in.
• Deployment & Project Delivery: Act as the bridge between technical teams and business stakeholders during the deployment phase, ensuring that solutions are delivered on time, meet requirements, and achieve the intended business impact.
• AI Governance & Ethics Guidance: Provide practical advice on AI governance, safety, and risk management, helping clients navigate the ethical and regulatory landscape.
• Practice Development: Contribute to the creation of frameworks, templates, and case studies that help scale Cambridge Spark’s AI Transformation methodologies.
• Demonstration building:

• Professional Technical Experience: Proven experience in executing and delivering projects in AI, Data Science, Machine Learning, or a related field in a commercial or industrial setting.
• Stakeholder Management: Experience working with (or presenting to) senior stakeholders, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, value-driven business language.
• Business Analysis Skills: Strong ability to analyse business processes, identify pain points, and quantify the potential impact of technical interventions.
• Strategic Communication:

• Consulting Background: Previous experience in a management or technology consulting firm is highly valued.
• Industry Breadth: Experience working across multiple sectors (e.g., Finance, Healthcare, Retail, or Public Sector).
• Project Management experience: Familiarity with Agile or other project management methodologies.

• A Natural Communicator: You enjoy public speaking and are adept at facilitating workshops with diverse groups of people.
• Empathetic:

Company Benefits: 

• Pension with 4% matched contributions, opportunity to opt into salary sacrifice scheme
• 25 days holiday + Flexi bank holidays + 1 day off on your birthday
• A day for volunteering
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave 
• Health & Wellbeing allowance of up to £30 per month

We are an education technology company that enables corporate and government organisations to achieve their business goals by educating their workforce with critical digital transformation skills to succeed in the AI era.

We deliver unique and innovative professional education that is accelerating the digital transformation of our clients, advancing the careers of their employees, helping people get into work and closing the digital skills gap. We are in a sector that is crucial to the economy and workforce, with a lot of opportunity for change and innovation. We are at the cutting edge of teaching applied data and digital skills, with our unique patented learning platform EDUKATE.AI offering our clients and learners a unique learning experience. EDUKATE.AI was developed with support from Innovate UK and provides all of our learners with 24/7 immediate feedback on their work, helping accelerate the learning process and providing a sandbox environment to experiment on real world datasets.

Since 2016, we have supported more than 15,000 learners across four continents with nearly 550,000 pieces of code submitted for feedback on EDUKATE.AI. We are trusted by some of the most recognisable brands in the world to educate their workforce, including Microsoft, the NHS, GSK, easyJet, the BBC and John Lewis. Our focus on applied learning to create business impact sets us apart - individual learners have reported applying their skills at work to generate recorded value of up to £40m. 

At the centre of the way we work together and inspire each other to achieve success are these core values:

Entrepreneurial

We take initiative and show entrepreneurial spirit which fuels innovation at Cambridge Spark. This includes identifying opportunities for improvement, taking ownership for implementing solutions effectively and driving improvement by using proof of concepts to demonstrate the feasibility and value of their work.

Team Spirit

Everyone is part of building an open and transparent culture, communicating effectively to raise issues, discuss improvements and share the evidence used to make decisions.

Customer-focused

Our customers are at the centre of everything we do, inspiring us to create great work. We strive to build friendly, professional and lasting relationships with them to better understand and anticipate their needs.

Gold Standard

We are experts in our field and are constantly developing our technology and offering. We set the benchmark in our industry: both in what we offer customers and in how we deliver it.

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Cambridge Spark is an Equal Opportunities Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind.  Cambridge Spark is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunities for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Cambridge Spark are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, colour or ethnicity, ability or disability, gender or gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Cambridge Spark will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Cambridge Spark encourages applicants of all ages.