We have an excellent job opportunity for Head of AI Insight for our leading airline client
Posted 2 days ago by Hays IT - HTS - Southend
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
Uxbridge, UK
Summary: The Head of AI Insight is a senior leadership role focused on developing and scaling the AI Insight capability for a leading airline client. This position aims to transform data consumption and decision-making processes across the organization through proactive, AI-driven insights. The role requires a shift from traditional reporting to a more integrated, conversational approach to data insights. The successful candidate will lead the vision and architecture for AI Insight, ensuring its adoption across the business.
Key Responsibilities:
- AI Insight Strategy, Vision & Architecture
- Semantic Layer & Data Abstraction
- Pick Your Channel Insight Delivery
- Conversational & Agentic Insight
- Proactive Insight & Decision Intelligence
- Mobile & Real Time Insight
- Delivery Leadership & Execution
- Stakeholder Leadership & Adoption
- Performance, Governance & Impact Tracking
Key Skills:
- Proven experience leading enterprise-scale data, analytics or AI insight platforms in complex, multi-entity organisations.
- Strong understanding of:
- Modern data platforms (eg Snowflake/lakehouse architectures)
- Semantic layers, metrics stores and data modelling
- AI/LLM-enabled analytics and conversational interfaces
- Track record of delivering user-facing products with high adoption.
- Experience driving transformation from traditional BI/reporting to advanced analytics or AI-driven models.
- Exceptional stakeholder management, with credibility at senior leadership levels.
- Ability to operate at both strategic and execution levels in fast-paced environments.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Uxbridge
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
About Group Transform AI
Transform AI is building a Group-leading AI capability to make client's industry benchmark for AI-enabled performance. We operate at the intersection of advanced technology and large-scale transformation, delivering measurable impact across a FTSE100 group.
Within this ambition, AI Insight is a critical pillar: transforming how the Group accesses, consumes and acts on data and shifting from retrospective reporting to proactive, AI-driven decision intelligence.
Contract - until end of December with the possibility of extention
Location - Waterside (UB7 0GB)
Hybrid - 2-3 days onsite and frequent national & international travel if needed.
Pay - Premium daily rate (inside IR35)
About the role
The Head of AI Insight is a senior leadership role accountable for building and scaling client's next-generation AI Insight capability.
Your purpose is to define and deliver a step-change in how insight is generated, distributed and consumed across the Group, moving to a unified, conversational, proactive AI insight layer built on the Central Data Layer (CDL).
This role goes beyond traditional BI or analytics leadership. It requires redefining the paradigm of insight consumption from pull-based reporting to AI-driven push, nudging and decision support, enabled through semantic abstraction, conversational access, and multi-channel delivery.
You will lead the development of the vision and associated architectures (including Claude-enabled interaction models), ensuring these are translated into production-grade, scalable capabilities adopted across the business.
Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities
- AI Insight Strategy, Vision & Architecture
- Semantic Layer & Data Abstraction
- Pick Your Channel Insight Delivery
- Conversational & Agentic Insight
- Proactive Insight & Decision Intelligence
- Mobile & Real Time Insight
- Delivery Leadership & Execution
- Stakeholder Leadership & Adoption
- Performance, Governance & Impact Tracking
Experience & Skills
- Proven experience leading enterprise-scale data, analytics or AI insight platforms in complex, multi-entity organisations.
- Strong understanding of:
- Modern data platforms (eg Snowflake/lakehouse architectures)
- Semantic layers, metrics stores and data modelling
- AI/LLM-enabled analytics and conversational interfaces
- Track record of delivering user-facing products with high adoption.
- Experience driving transformation from traditional BI/reporting to advanced analytics or AI-driven models.
- Exceptional stakeholder management, with credibility at senior leadership levels.
- Ability to operate at both strategic and execution levels in fast-paced environments.
Desired Attributes
- Visionary but pragmatic: can translate bold ambition into tangible delivery
- Founder mindset: drives progress, removes blockers, and creates momentum
- Structured in ambiguity: brings clarity and discipline to complex problems
- High judgement: balances innovation, risk and enterprise constraints
- Outcome-focused: relentlessly drives adoption and measurable impact