Agentic AI Strategy Lead

Job Summary

Senior Strategy Lead – Agentic AI

Location:

Bristol, Edinburgh, Manchester or London

Salary Range: £116,535 – £137,100 (plus bonus, share schemes, pension contribution and additional benefits)

Working Pattern:
Hybrid – at least two days per week (40%) at one of the above locations.

• Lead an Agentic AI domain (Customer or Operations) and align it with the Group’s business priorities.
• Identify, frame and prioritise AI opportunities and use cases, ensuring commercial and operational viability.
• Assess priorities through the full AI lifecycle – from inception, capability definition, build, deployment, adoption and value realisation.
• Build and maintain a realistic, scalable roadmap, coordinating work across business units, platforms and enabling teams.
• Translate business objectives into agentic and technical requirements, understanding data, integration and system dependencies.
• Engage senior stakeholders to secure alignment, resolve competing priorities and agree clear OKRs.
• Define domain‑level value outcomes, track realisation and keep initiatives outcome‑led.
• Drive operating‑model change and business adoption, shaping how agents, teams, controls and processes work together.
• Promote cross‑functional collaboration and reuse across domains and the AI ecosystem.
• Lead and develop a small team of strategy managers within the AI CoE, creating focus and synergy across domains.

• Strong understanding of AI and Agentic AI – how these scale across platforms, operating models and enterprise adoption.
• Experience with the core building blocks of Agentic AI – data, integration, infrastructure and orchestration.
• Proven ability to translate business priorities into clear AI strategies, value cases and actionable roadmaps.
• Technical depth to engage confidently with platform, engineering and senior business leaders.
• Strategic judgement and commercial awareness, grounded in real‑world experience of what works.
• Experience leading or shaping large‑scale AI or Agentic AI initiatives from strategy through delivery and value realisation.
• Experience working in financial services, technology, consulting or a complex regulated environment.
• Hands‑on involvement in AI programme delivery – design through deployment and adoption.
• Experience shaping AI portfolios, value narratives, or benefits frameworks at scale.
• Familiarity with modern data and AI platforms and how platform roadmaps are prioritised, funded and governed in large organisations.
• Experience leading cross‑functional programmes spanning business and technology teams.

• Generous pension contribution (up to 15%)
• Annual performance‑related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
• Opportunity to shape the future of finance while learning and developing in a large, inclusive organisation.

We are an inclusive workplace celebrating diversity and welcome applications from under‑represented groups. We are disability confident and can provide reasonable adjustments to our recruitment processes.