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We create AI-enabled solutions that enhance digital experiences, empower developers, and deliver measurable results. In these ways, we partner with ambitious enterprises to deliver enduring impact.\nOur deep expertise in solving the world’s most complex digital problems, along with our collaborative, people-first approach, enables enterprises to build breakthrough products and modernise legacy systems by unleashing the power of AI.\nToday, our team of 500 experts in 20+ countries is trusted by leading enterprises including Lululemon, Puma, Sun Life, Starbucks, Travelex, Virgin Media 02, and Walmart. \nWe're on a mission to reinvent how our clients work\nMost companies are bolting AI onto old processes and hoping for the best. We think that's the wrong way round.\nNearform is on an exciting journey with AI, and we're building a new team to lead it. The team brings together two worlds that rarely meet: the business thinking of a strategy firm and the engineering depth of a company that builds and ships real products. That puts us in a small group of firms that can do both. We work out what should change and we build it.\nThe Role\nOur clients don't all start in the same place. Some know something has to change but have no idea where to start. Others have a clear picture of the future and are ready to build. Most are somewhere in between.\nYour job is to work out where each client really is and shape the right solution for them. That could mean helping a leadership team choose which process to tackle first. It could also mean turning a rough idea into something our engineers can build.\nThis isn't a traditional management consulting role\nYou won't be writing a strategy deck that sits on a shelf. This is hands-on work, close to the technology, and focused on results you can see.\nPrimary Responsibilities:\n Get on the ground. Sit with the teams doing the work, whether they're checking customers against sanctions lists or pulling together month-end reports. Learn how it really happens, including the workarounds, the judgement calls and the steps nobody wrote down.\nSpot the opportunity. Find where AI and automation can change the game, and where a person still needs to make the call.\nDesign what comes next. Work side by side with a forward deployed engineer to shape a better way of working, testing ideas against what can actually be built.\nProve the value. Own the business case for each process you redesign. Work out where the value is, put numbers on it, and set up how it will be measured, so that after go-live you can show the client what changed.\nMake it real. Turn your design into a plan clear enough for our engineering teams to build, then see it go live.\nBring people with you. Run workshops, win over frontline staff and make the case to senior leaders.\nBetween clients, you'll help build what comes next:\nHelp win new work. Join early conversations with prospective clients and help shape proposals that show what's possible.\nShape our offer. Turn what you learn on projects into the methods, tools and stories that make the next engagement faster and sharper.\nMake the team stronger. Share what works, test new ideas and help define how this team operates as it grows.\nExperience:\n At least 10 years in consulting, business analysis, operations improvement or a similar role.\nA track record of mapping a business process and redesigning it with real stakeholders.\nConfidence in front of clients, whether you're running a workshop, interviewing frontline staff or presenting to a broad group of client stakeholders, including the C-suite.\nOutcomes thinking. 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