Senior konsult - AI Strategy & Transformation

Technology is changing what organizations can do, how they operate and where they create value. AI is one of the strongest forces in that shift. The challenge for most organizations is no longer generating ideas or launching pilots. It is deciding where to focus, creating the conditions to deliver, and turning new possibilities into lasting business value. Influence helps leadership teams navigate that shift, from strategic direction through to operating model, portfolio governance, and realized business value. We are neither an AI training team nor a systems integrator. We help organizations decide what matters, build the capability to deliver it, and establish accountability for the outcome. We start with strategy, but we’re defined by what happens next: strategy and execution working together, not as two separate processes. We are looking for a consultant who can work confidently with C-level business leaders on these questions. Someone who understands AI and data well enough to challenge assumptions, technical roadmaps and unrealistic use cases, but whose real strength lies in business judgement, transformation and change. What you will do Work directly with client leadership to define where AI and data can genuinely change the business, and just as importantly, what not to pursue. Assess the realizability of AI initiatives, not only their technical feasibility, but the organization's readiness, change capacity, ownership, and data foundations to actually capture the value. Design and facilitate the balance between top-down strategic direction and bottom-up experimentation, so initiatives close to the business get room to develop without losing coherence. Build portfolio governance that treats AI investments dynamically; deciding what to scale, what stays local, what gets more resources, and what gets stopped. Guide clients from isolated pilots or lighthouse initiatives to organization-wide scaling by aligning workflows, roles, incentives, and governance around business outcomes, not just individual solutions. Act as the translator and challenger between business leadership and technical specialists, AI, data, and engineering, integrating their input into a coherent business case without owning the build yourself. Shape and deliver the client engagement: workshops, executive advisory sessions, transformation roadmaps, business cases, high level design, feasibility assessment and operating model design. Draw on the Newground network to bring in deep AI, data, or technology specialism exactly where and when it's needed. What we are looking for A strong consultancy background: management consulting, corporate strategy, operations, or transformation leadership - ideally in complex, multi-business-unit organizations. A practical understanding of AI and technology, enough to challenge assumptions, question vendor claims, assess technical trade-offs, and determine whether a use case is realistic, without needing to write code, build models, or own technical delivery. A track record of leading organizational or operating model change: new ways of working, governance redesign, or capability building, not only strategy on paper. Comfort holding two things in tension: setting clear direction from the top while genuinely enabling ideas and ownership from the business. Strong senior stakeholder management, credible with C-level and business unit leadership, and willing to be the voice that challenges wishful thinking, highlights risks, and keeps decisions grounded in business reality. A structured, analytical approach to prioritization, paired with hands-on transformation experience and the ability to create involvement and alignment across organizational levels: separating what is strategically attractive from what an organization can realize. Fluent in Swedish and English, given our Nordic client base. Why Influence Influence exists for a wiser tomorrow. We are the Nordic strategy firm for the companies that define their industries, and for the leaders and owners with a long-term vision. Most consultancies sell you their thinking. We build our clients thinking, harnessing human collective intelligence for the critical decisions no template or model can settle. As the Nordic premium alternative to the global firms, we work side by side with our clients, so every engagement leaves a sharper, more capable business behind, not a dependency on us. AI transformation is exactly that kind of decision: no framework alone tells a leadership team which bets deserve their change capacity, or that a good idea has become realized value. That judgment is what this role exists to bring. We are a management consultancy of 80+ consultants, part of Newground, an alliance of 16 specialist firms, and rooted in research into collective intelligence from the Stockholm School of Economics. Our AI transformation work sits alongside major engagements in digital and software strategy, operating models, and business transformation for large industrial, consumer, and professional services organizations. With Influence, the quality of strategy is measured by what happens next. You will work on some of the most consequential transformation questions our clients face today: not whether to invest in AI, but where to place the bets that matter and how to ensure value is realized.