Principal Change Lead - AI Transformation Contract Opportunity | Sydney CBD About the Organisation This organisation is undertaking a significant enterprise transformation focused on embedding AI-enabled capabilities across its operating environment. As part of a broader strategic initiative, the business is investing in new technologies, operating model evolution, and workforce capability uplift to enable scalable, AI-supported ways of working across multiple business units. This engagement offers the opportunity to play a key role in shaping how AI-enabled operating models are designed, adopted, and embedded across a complex enterprise environment. About the Role We are seeking an experienced Change Lead to drive the people, process, and operating model aspects of an enterprise-wide AI transformation. This role will focus on enabling the transition to AI-enabled ways of working, ensuring organisational structures, governance, and workforce capability evolve alongside new autonomous and AI-supported workflows. Working closely with senior business leaders, technology teams, and People & Culture functions, you will lead the design and delivery of change strategies that support adoption at scale. The role requires a strong focus on operating model alignment, workforce readiness, and embedding sustainable behavioural and process change as AI becomes integrated into core business operations. This is a senior role suited to someone experienced in complex transformation environments who can operate confidently across executive stakeholders while maintaining delivery momentum across multiple initiatives. Key Responsibilities Lead change strategy and execution across AI and AI-enabled transformation initiatives. Support the design and implementation of future-state operating models aligned to AI-enabled and autonomous ways of working. Provide an enterprise view of change impacts across concurrent initiatives, ensuring coordinated and sequenced delivery. Develop and deliver change artefacts including impact assessments, engagement strategies, communications, training approaches, and readiness plans. Partner with executive and senior leadership teams to support adoption and behavioural change. Enable workforce capability uplift to support AI-enabled roles and processes. Establish effective governance and change frameworks to support sustainable adoption. Act as a trusted advisor to business and technology leaders on organisational change and transformation risk. About You Demonstrated experience leading change within large-scale, enterprise transformation programs. Strong experience supporting technology-led change, ideally including AI, automation, data, or digital transformation initiatives. Experience contributing to or supporting operating model design and implementation. Ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders across business and technology functions. Strong delivery capability across multiple workstreams in complex environments. Excellent communication, engagement, and stakeholder management skills. Apply now to play a key role in shaping how AI-enabled operating models and future ways of working are embedded at enterprise scale.
