AI Business Engagement Lead

Ready to shape how AI delivers value across one of the UK’s largest energy businesses? Do you enjoy turning complex ideas into clear opportunities, building trusted relationships, and helping others move forward with confidence? At EDF, Success is Personal, and this is your chance to play a key role in making AI accessible, practical and impactful.

The Opportunity

As an AI Business Engagement Lead, you'll be the business-facing gateway into our AI and Automation Centre of Excellence. Working with teams across EDF, you'll help identify, assess, shape and progress AI opportunities, turning early ideas into clear plans that create value and support our journey towards An Electric Britain.

You’ll join us on a starting salary of £57,000 per annum, with the potential for an annual bonus. This role offers complete flexibility on location, with occasional travel to our UK-based EDF sites as needed. You’ll enjoy the freedom to work in a way that suits you while staying connected to colleagues across the business.

You’ll work at the forefront of AI adoption, engaging senior stakeholders, influencing decision-making and helping teams navigate AI confidently and responsibly. Alongside exposure to enterprise-wide transformation initiatives, you’ll have opportunities to deepen your understanding of AI, governance, digital innovation and business change.

Who You Are

We’re looking for an AI Business Engagement Lead who can build relationships quickly, think strategically and translate between business and technical audiences. You’ll be comfortable working with ambiguity, shaping conversations and helping stakeholders move from ideas to action. To be shortlisted, you need to offer…

• Proven experience in business engagement, business analysis, advisory, transformation, change, digital or technology roles
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience engaging and influencing senior business stakeholders
• Experience turning ambiguous business needs into structured problem statements, use cases, roadmaps, prioritised opportunities and actionable next steps, including assessing value, readiness and delivery considerations 
• Practical understanding of AI capabilities, data, platforms, integration, security, Responsible AI, business readiness and technology delivery considerations
• Experience operating within governance frameworks, service models or operating models with defined routing and escalation processes
• Experience facilitating workshops, shaping discussions and coordinating actions across multiple stakeholders
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to create clear summaries, recommendations and decision support materials
• Experience identifying patterns, recurring demand and opportunities for improvement across portfolios, programmes or business initiatives
• Confidence to constructively challenge AI ideas, ask the right questions and guide stakeholders towards the most appropriate solution, including non AI routes where these may deliver better outcomes 

What You’ll Be Doing

• Providing business engagement and advisory support to teams exploring AI opportunities and use cases
• Shaping early-stage demand into clear problem statements, value hypotheses and practical next steps, helping stakeholders assess value, readiness, dependencies and the most appropriate route forward 
• Guiding stakeholders to the right AI and Automation Centre of Excellence services, expertise, governance and support routes
• Coordinating specialist input and ensuring opportunities are progressed consistently and effectively
• Challenging and refining AI opportunities where appropriate, helping teams understand when AI is the right solution and when existing tools, process improvements or alternative approaches may deliver better outcomes 
• Capturing insights, trends and recurring demand themes to improve AI services, guidance and adoption across EDF

Pay, Benefits and Culture

Alongside a starting salary of £57,000 per annum, potential for an annual bonus, and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include customisable benefits such as electric vehicle leasing, discounted gym membership, life assurance, tech vouchers, experience days, and more.

At EDF, we believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we offer you the freedom to develop a career that’s unique to you. Here, Success is Personal – it’s your journey, powered by us.

Everyone is welcome at EDF; we’re committed to building a workforce that reflects gender balance, social mobility, and inclusion of minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+ communities, and those with disabilities. As a Disability Confident employer, we will support applicants requiring adjustments.

Join us and find your success at EDF!

Closing date for applications: Monday 10th August

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Success is Personal. It's your journey, powered by us. Join us and drive the transition towards An Electric Britain.