AI Innovation Manager -Contract

AI Innovation Manager

Location: London – Hybrid

Contract: 6 months

Daily Rate - £700-800 Inside IR35

The Opportunity

VANRATH is partnering with a leading global organisation to appoint an AI Innovation Manager for a newly established Enterprise Innovation Lab.

This is a hands-on role for someone from a strong consulting background who enjoys turning ambiguous business challenges into practical AI solutions. You’ll work in a small, autonomous team, rapidly developing prototypes and testing new technology against real commercial use cases.

What You’ll Do

• Identify valuable AI and automation opportunities across Commercial and Operations.
• Turn loosely defined problems into clear, deliverable use cases.
• Build and test AI prototypes, agents and automations at pace.
• Use AI-led development approaches to accelerate delivery.
• Measure each pilot against commercial outcomes such as revenue, cost, risk and efficiency.
• Evaluate emerging tools and recommend which solutions should progress into production.
• Present demonstrations, results and recommendations to senior stakeholders.

About You

• Consulting experience from a leading strategy, management or technology consultancy.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, short engagements and demanding delivery expectations.
• Recent hands-on experience building AI-enabled solutions, prototypes or automations.
• Strong first-principles problem-solving and presentation skills.
• Commercially minded, with the ability to communicate technical ideas clearly.
• Curious, self-sufficient and genuinely interested in emerging AI technology.

Experience with technologies such as Agentforce, AWS Bedrock, Microsoft Copilot, Databricks, Snowflake, Cursor or comparable platforms would be beneficial.

This opportunity would suit a modern, delivery-focused consultant who wants to remain close to new tools and technology—not someone focused primarily on large transformation programmes or executive-level strategy.

For further information on this job, apply via the link or contact the VANRATH office for a confidential chat today.

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