AI Adoption Lead

Company Description

At Konecranes, we believe that great customer experience is built on the people behind the Konecranes name. Everything we do, we do with passion and drive. We believe diversity drives business success and is the foundation for our growth. We welcome different backgrounds and skills that enrich our community and we promote a place where we can ALL be ourselves. This is what makes Konecranes a unique place to work.

Job Description

The mission:

The growing AI Enablement team in our Digital Center of Excellence is looking for an AI Adoption Lead. Your mission is to make AI part of everyday work at Konecranes, helping people and teams across the company use AI confidently, responsibly and in ways that actually change how work gets done.

Everyday AI happens on two levels. In “me” use cases, individuals use AI assistants such as Microsoft 365 Copilot to work smarter in their own tasks. In “we” use cases, teams will build shared workflows with agents, AI harnesses and connectors. You will help both happen and help teams recognize when a personal habit is worth turning into a shared team solution.

This is a hands-on lead role with broad reach as you will working closely with colleagues across business areas, functions, IT and data. You will run Konecranes AI Champion network, and roll up your sleeves to help teams with real AI use cases. You will report to the Director, AI Enablement.

What you'll do:

1) Shape and drive everyday AI adoption:

• Develop and continuously improve Konecranes’ approach to everyday AI adoption, connecting business priorities and employee needs with practical opportunities.
• Make AI tangible through demonstrations, hands-on sessions and relevant examples from Konecranes’ own work.

2) Lead the AI Champion network:

• Run and develop the Konecranes AI Champion network, including a regular community rhythm and sharing of what works.
• Onboard and upskill champions through trainings and hands-on bootcamps, and continuously assess what works, adjusting content and formats as needs and tools evolve.
• Equip champions and line managers to support colleagues locally and help new habits stick.

3) Provide hands-on support for everyday AI use cases:

• Help individuals and teams across the company with real use cases, and help them understand which AI tools, technologies and data best serve their needs..
• Guide teams through both “me” and “we” use cases: when personal productivity is enough, and when a shared agentic workflow or other team level AI solution brings more value.
• Build and demonstrate prototypes yourself, using AI coding harnesses such as Claude Code as well as Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio.
• Help teams understand how to build and use AI solutions in approved environments and within Konecranes’ guardrails.
• Help teams recognize when a use case outgrows everyday AI and should be supported with stronger engineering and/or data science skills.

4) Deliver AI trainings and build scalable upskilling:

• Design and deliver practical AI trainings for different target groups, from employees and line managers to leadership teams and expert functions.
• Turn trainings into reusable blueprints, such as webinars, templates and example libraries, so that the role does not become a bottleneck.
• Build AI upskilling paths together with People & Culture and Learning & Development managers across business areas and functions, including AI-assisted learning paths that adapt to roles and skill levels.
• Work with technology partners and vendors to organize AI tool/feature trainings, such as Microsoft Copilot and SAP Joule, making sure the content fits Konecranes’ needs and real work.

5) Stay ahead of AI and turn it into practice:

• Continuously learn and experiment with new AI capabilities, tools and ways of working, and bring the relevant ones into Konecranes as practical advice and demonstrations.
• Run small co-builds and pilots with teams to test what works, and turn the good ones into examples others can reuse.

Qualifications

What you should bring:

You are likely a strong fit if you communicate fluently in English and recognize yourself in all or most of the following:

• Relevant experience: Approximately 5+ years of experience bringing new digital and AI solutions into use in large organizations, either as a consultant working with corporate clients or in an in-house role such as digital/AI transformation or SW development.
• Hunger to learn AI and turn it into practice: You are genuinely curious about AI as a technology and continuous learning is your second nature. You turn what you learn into practical advice, demonstrations and small co-builds or pilots, for both individual (“me”) and team (“we”) use.
• Hands-on builder: Practical experience with Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio in real work, and comfortable building prototypes, agents and automations with Claude Code or similar AI coding harnesses. You do not need to be a software engineer, but you must be able to build.
• Data sense: You understand data well enough to spot when it is the bottleneck: where it lives, whether it is good enough and how to get access.
• Partner and stakeholder management: You get things done through partners, vendors and people you don’t manage, from co-organizing trainings with technology vendors to running an AI champion network.
• Communication for business audiences: Most of the people you help are business and functional experts, not techies. You explain AI in plain language, design practical training and are an energetic, credible presenter from the factory floor to leadership teams.
• Responsible by default: You build and operate within approved environments and guardrails, help others do the same, and recognize when data protection, security or stronger review is needed.

Nice to have:

• Experience in change management or structured approaches to driving new ways of working.
• Experience in a global industrial environment, such as manufacturing, service, sales or engineering.
• Fluent in Finnish is a plus.

Additional Information

Why join us?

This is a role for someone who wants to advise via practical demonstrations and builds. You will turn AI into everyday practice in a global industrial company whose equipment and services keep heavy industry moving.

• Impact that multiplies: Every colleague you equip to build with AI goes on to improve their own work and their team’s. Your work directly drives how far and how fast AI scales across Konecranes.
• An established, global company: Konecranes is a listed international company and the scale to make your work count across the whole organization.
• Wellbeing and rewards: Comprehensive occupational healthcare, wellbeing benefits and a bonus scheme.
• Flexibility: Hybrid working from Hyvinkää or Espoo, with a permanent contract.

Interested?

If you want to help people across Konecranes make AI an integral part of their everyday work, we would be glad to hear from you.

Please submit your application in English via the Konecranes careers page, including your resume and a cover letter describing:

• Why you would be a good fit for this role.
• An example of how you helped business or functional colleagues take AI into everyday use, and what changed.

We will start reviewing applications during the application period. Due to GDPR requirements, we cannot accept applications by email.

Please apply via link "Apply" -link below by 7th of December 2026 at latest, we start to interview candidates already before this.

For additional information about the role: Niina Hagman, Director, AI Enablement, niina.hagman [at] konecranes.com.

For recruitment process questions: Mihaela Ban, Global Talent Acquisition Specialist, mihaela.ban[at] konecranes.com.

Konecranes moves what matters. We are a global leader in material handling solutions, serving a broad range of customers across multiple industries. We consistently set the industry benchmark, from everyday improvements to the breakthroughs at moments that matter most, because we know we can always find a safer, more productive and sustainable way. That's why, with 16 000+ professionals in over 50 countries, we are trusted every day to lift, handle and move what the world needs.

Konecranes is committed to ensuring that all employees and job applicants are treated fairly in an environment which is free from any form of discrimination.