Portfolio Product Lead - AI

Our client, a leading healthcare enterprise, is hiring a Portfolio Product Lead to join the team remotely on a nine-month contract. The successful candidate will lead the AI and GenAI investment roadmap, prioritising initiatives and guiding them from experimentation to adoption and measurable results.

Responsibilities

• Own the AI portfolio roadmap, balancing business value, technical feasibility, risk and delivery capacity.
• Work with business teams to identify where AI can improve processes, products or ways of working.
• Turn opportunities into clear use cases, priorities and measurable success criteria.
• Guide initiatives from discovery and experimentation through to implementation, adoption and ongoing evaluation.
• Partner with engineering, data and AI teams to assess approaches, challenge assumptions and unblock delivery.
• Align senior stakeholders on priorities, investment decisions and expected outcomes.
• Manage dependencies and risks across the portfolio, adjusting direction as evidence emerges.
• Build governance, security and human oversight into every initiative from the start.
• Track adoption and business impact, and use the results to decide what to improve, scale or stop.

Skillset

• Experience leading products, portfolios or transformation programmes in a complex organisation.
• A track record of delivering AI or GenAI initiatives into real use, with concrete examples of implementation, adoption and results.
• Current, practical exposure to AI tools and solutions, backed by a hands-on or previously hands-on technical background.
• The ability to discuss AI capabilities, data requirements, evaluation, integration and limitations with technical teams.
• Strong prioritisation skills and confidence making trade-offs between competing initiatives.
• Excellent stakeholder management, including influencing senior leaders and bringing business and technology teams together.
• A clear approach to measuring value, from setting a baseline to assessing outcomes.
• Understanding of responsible AI, governance and the challenges of introducing AI into established enterprise systems.
• Experience applying AI to software delivery, application modernisation or internal workflows.

Interested? Send your CV to kylec@alldus.com or message me for a quick conversation about the role and contract.