Senior AI Transformation Consultant

Department: AI Practice Location: Home based, UK (with regular travel to our London office and client sites) Reports to: Chief AI Officer Hours: 37.5 per week Salary: (Depending on experience) 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. Key responsibilities: 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: Be capable of building a demo AI tool or app that brings a use-case to life for a client and highlights the major benefits and potential risks of a solution. Workshop delivery : Be able to bring all of your skills to bear to deliver exceptional AI-themed presentations and workshops. You will need to be a confident public speaker as well as being able to deliver technical content in an effective way. To support with any ad-hoc duties or requests that may be reasonably required to successfully carry out the role or to support the business Candidate Specification: Essential: 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: Must be able to present structured arguments regarding both the benefits and the risks (technical and ethical) of AI deployment. Academic Foundation: A technical MSc or PhD (Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, OR, or similar numerate subject) or equivalent experience that provides deep technical credibility. Desirable 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. You'll thrive in this role if you are: A Natural Communicator: You enjoy public speaking and are adept at facilitating workshops with diverse groups of people. Empathetic: You are capable of understanding problems from other people’s point of view and will pro-actively use this skill to anticipate challenges and wins. An Analytical Problem Solver: You don't just see the code; you see the business problem it solves. Proactive & Entrepreneurial: You are comfortable with ambiguity and enjoy the challenge of building a new practice. Sincerely Passionate: You believe in the transformative power of AI but remain grounded in the reality of what it takes to deploy it safely and effectively. 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 Annual Summer and Xmas events Company socials including everything from Cambridge College formals, pub nights to team building events CPD Allowance alongside quarterly reflections to ring fence time for development and growth Private medical insurance and cash plan Holiday buy back scheme (up to 10 days p/a) Employee Assistance Programme with a dedicated company counsellor Background to our Organisation 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. Our Values 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. ____________________________________________________________________________ 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.