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Own the demand management workstream and the programme management support for KB's AI transformation initiatives and governance. This is the senior of the two positions and the primary interface to executive-level KB stakeholders, including material that reaches the CEO AI Council.\nKey responsibilities - AI demand management\nDesign and operate a single AI demand intake channel across divisions and business units, including intake template, qualification criteria and triage routing.\nMaintain the demand pipeline through the DoI gates, tracking status, owner, sizing, dependencies and decision readiness for every item.\nPrepare prioritisation material and decision papers for the Value Management Organization and the relevant steering forums.\nTrack conversion from demand to funded delivery, and report on cycle time and bottlenecks in the intake process.\nRoll out the intake route with value streams and business units, and revise it based on live use.\nKey responsibilities - AI transformation initiatives and governance\nProvide programme management support to the mass AI adoption initiative: planning, tracking, adoption metrics and rollout coordination across business units.\nMaintain the central AI portfolio and AI asset register, including status, ownership and classification.\nPrepare CEO AI Council material: pre-reads, decision papers, minutes and action tracking through to closure.\nSupport AI governance operations - 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