Senior Manager AI & Innovation

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BDO is the leading mid-tier professional services provider globally. In 2024, we recorded global revenues of over US $15 billion across our core service lines - Audit & Assurance, Tax, Advisory, and Business Services & Outsourcing. With a worldwide community of over 119k professionals operating in 166 countries and territories, we’re dedicated to helping our clients navigate complex financial and strategic challenges, aligned to our core purpose ‘ People helping people.

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The Senior Manager of AI & Innovation leads strategic initiatives that leverage artificial intelligence and emerging technologies to drive innovation, operational efficiency, and competitive advantage. This role combines visionary thinking with hands‑on execution, fostering a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement across our portfolio.

• Keep abreast of and evaluate emerging technologies to help inform strategic direction & planning.
• Assit in the definition and prioritization of innovation initiatives.
• Develop and execute our AI and innovation strategy aligned with business goals.
• Regularly assess and update where appropriate the AI roadmap, ensuring the roadmap is aligned with the strategy, is constantly up to date in a fast paced market of change around AI technology.

• Lead the design and have hands‑on execution of AI-driven solutions across the portfolio.
• Oversee data governance, AI model development and ethical AI practices.
• Collaborate with Data scientists, and other teams to deliver successful impactful AI projects.
• Evaluate and implement modern data platforms and AI tools, including cloud-native solutions and generative AI applications.

• Cultivate a culture of innovation through workshops and cross functional collaboration
• Manage & implement an innovation pipeline, along with prioritization to prototyping to scaling.
• Evaluate ROI and impact of innovation initiatives.
• Assess existing initiatives and incoming initiative requests and scope them according to technical feasibility, business impact, and available capacity.
• Collaborate with the Catalyst Programme to ensure oversight and input with AI initiatives that are planned or in flight.

• Build strong, trusted relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, including our technical partners.
• Build presentations and communicate complex AI and innovation strategies and concepts to non-technical audiences.

• Partner with the Delivery Team to oversee end‑to‑end delivery of AI & innovation projects or initiatives, ensuring effective execution and on‑time delivery.
• Provide governance, support, and guidance to technical teams…