Head of AI enablement and programme management

Head of AI Enablement and Programme Management

Reporting to VP digital disciplines, Data and AI. This role preserves autonomy within business lines while creating cross‑enterprise visibility, standards, and acceleration needed to scale AI responsibly and profitably. It evolves AI from pilots to a sustained repeatable value realizing enterprise capability.

Why this role exists: AI experimentation is accelerating across our business lines — from predictive analytics in Production & Operations to optimization and automation in Refining, to automated deal entries in Trading, and Mobility. Each BU has its own digital priorities and delivery rhythm. As these initiatives multiply, it’s important to see and drive a fuller picture:
Which efforts matter most? Where is there risk of duplicating? How do we drive reuse and knowledge sharing? How do we accelerate scale‑up safely and efficiently? We’re reaching an inflection point where AI delivery needs orchestration. The Head of AI Enablement & Program Management exists to connect and amplify the work happening across our business lines — preserving business autonomy while ensuring alignment, transparency, and acceleration!

• Lead and maintain a unified portfolio of high‑value AI programs across all business lines.
• Act as the primary liaison to BU VPs of Digital, aligning priorities, budgets, and resources for top AI opportunities.
• Chair the AI Program Review cadence, producing standardized reporting and executive dashboards for progress, risk, and impact.
• Develop and maintain the AI Delivery Playbook defining readiness criteria, governance checkpoints, and evaluation standards.
• Embed enterprise standards for safety, ethics, and lifecycle management across all AI engagements.
• Build enablement assets and toolkits that help business teams deploy AI responsibly and repeatably.
• For the highest priority AI initiatives, help connect AI specialists, engineers, data scientists, UX researchers, product managers, and others into one cohesive delivery rhythm.
• Translate field feedback into prioritized updates for the AI Platform and Digital Delivery roadmaps.
• Design and maintain an AI Delivery Dashboard, integrating data from project trackers, model registries, and performance logs.
• Establish feedback loops to capture lessons learned, share success stories, and refine delivery methods.
• Drive measurable improvements in deployment cycle time, model adoption, and cross‑BU reuse.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, data science, business or equivalent work experience.
• Master’s degree or MBA in computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, data science, business or equivalent work experience.
• Combined deep experience in product management, data & analytics, software engineering and/or program management.
• Managing teams and cross‑functional leadership experience.

• Specialization in AI/ML – understanding of ML infrastructure, data governance and ethics.
• Accredited experience and certification in Program Management (PMP, PMI‑ACP, PSPO, SAFe).
• Customer‑centric and agile mindset.
• Commercial focus on unlocking customer and business value through digital technology.
• Growth‑minded with enthusiasm for emerging technologies.
• Digitally enabled and data‑driven.
• Passionate about growth and development of commercially feasible customer‑focused offers.
• Strong backlog management and prioritisation across complex global portfolios.
• Strong collaboration across matrix organisation.
• Creates strategic partnerships, manages risks, unblocks and manages escalation paths for effective implementation.
• Develops capabilities at scale – unlocks AI learning, development and knowledge management across global organisations.
• Creates innovation and change; comfortable with uncertainty and evolving environments.

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