Senior AI Strategy & Transformation Manager
At Ralph Lauren, we unite and inspire the communities within our company as well as those in which we serve by amplifying voices and perspectives to create a culture of belonging, ensuring inclusion, and fairness for all. We foster a culture of inclusion through: Talent, Education & Communication, Employee Groups and Celebration.
The central orchestrator of Ralph Lauren APAC's AI transformation agenda, integrating strategy, use case prioritization, governance, change leadership, and value realization to maximize business impact. Different from a traditional PMO scope, this role serves to be a transformation catalyst, influencing critical decisions, removing systemic barriers, and accelerating AI use cases from ambition to measurable value at regional scale.
Responsibilities:
AI Strategy, Use Case Prioritization & Roadmap
- Drive AI use case prioritization based on business value, strategic relevance, foundational leverage & capacity.
- Translate strategic priorities into a roadmap of capabilities, outcomes, and execution plans.
- Ensure clear ownership, milestones, and success measures across the AI use case pipeline.
Executive Governance & Strategic Influence
- Drive executive alignment on priorities, investments, funding, resources, and expected outcomes.
- Establish and drive governance forums, steering committees, and decision-making processes.
- Develop c-suite communications and strategic recommendations that shape priorities and accelerate decisions.
Value Realization & Performance Management
- Define value frameworks, ROI thresholds, adoption metrics and other critical success measures for AI initiatives.
- Proactively identify risks and performance gaps, driving interventions to maximize outcomes.
Transformation & Change Management
- Lead change, adoption, and capability-building initiatives across markets and functions.
- Redesign business processes and workflows to enable AI-powered ways of working.
- Shape and embed a scalable Human + AI operating model across APAC.
Cross-Functional Orchestration
- Serve as the connective tissue across global/regional/local teams across business, technology & external partners.
- Coordinate dependencies, resources, and execution across multiple initiatives to accelerate value delivery.
- Codify successful use cases into repeatable playbooks, implementation blueprints, and scaling frameworks.
Requirments:
- 8+ years of experience in transformation, strategy, consulting, digital, or program leadership roles.
- Proven track record leading large-scale, cross-functional transformation programs from strategy through adoption and value realization, ideally within global consumer-facing organizations.
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives and drive alignment across business and technology leaders.
- Strong experience in governance, prioritization, investment planning, and executive decision-making processes.
- Exceptional communication and influencing skills, with experience developing executive-level materials.
- Experience in AI, data, analytics, digital transformation, or emerging technology programs preferred.