Group AI Leader (Vanguard Program) in London

Harris International Group is seeking a Group AI Leader to lead and coordinate the Vanguard program — our accelerated AI initiative spanning 23 Business Units across EMEA, India and Israel. This is a low‐ego, high‐action leadership role focused on execution, coordination, and momentum rather than hierarchy or theory. The role exists to ensure the Vanguard team and its projects move quickly, learn fast, and deliver practical outcomes that materially advance AI adoption across the group.

What Success Looks Like

• Vanguard work is well‐coordinated, visible, and moving forward
• Business Units feel supported, listened to, and unblocked
• Progress, learnings, and outputs are clearly reported upward
• The program adapts quickly as the market and Harris ecosystem evolve

What you will do (Key Responsibilities):

• Programme Leadership & Coordination
  • Co‐ordinate and schedule the activities of the Vanguard team across 23 Business Units
  • Act as the central point of orchestration without becoming a bottleneck
  • Prioritise progress over perfection, particularly on two‐door decisions
• Execution & Tracking
  • Track the status of Vanguard projects end‐to‐end
  • Produce and maintain:
    • Project status updates
    • Product/output reports
    • Follow‐ups to ensure commitments turn into outcomes
  • Proactively identify risks, delays, and opportunities to accelerate learning
• Reporting & Communication
  • Consolidate results, learnings, and outputs on a quarterly basis
  • Report progress upward in a clear, pragmatic, decision‐oriented manner
  • Translate activity into insight: what worked, what didn’t, and what to do next
• Business Unit & Stakeholder Engagement
  • Work closely with BU leadership to understand their wants, needs, and constraints
  • Reflect those needs into Vanguard priorities and ways of working
  • Maintain strong relationships built on trust, responsiveness, and practical value
• External & Internal Ecosystem Engagement
  • Engage with Harris and CSI partners to leverage:
    • Expertise
    • Tools and resources
    • Shared learnings from across the wider group
  • Stay abreast of AI adoption efforts across Harris and CSI, and shape how those insights influence Vanguard activity
• Market Awareness & Thought Contribution
  • Keep up to date with developments in the external AI market
  • Provide grounded, non‐hyped views on:
    • What matters now
    • What we should ignore
    • How trends should influence Vanguard priorities and execution

Operating Style & Values

This role is explicitly designed for someone who:

• Operates with low ego and high agency
• Has a strong bias to action on two‐door problems
• Is comfortable failing fast, learning, and iterating rather than waiting for perfection
• Values enabling others over personal visibility
• Can act as a player‐coach if needed, but prioritises looking after the team

What we are looking for (Background & Experience)

We are intentionally flexible on background and seniority. Strong candidates may include:

• Senior leaders looking for a high‐impact, hands‐on role
• Experienced individual contributors with strong coordination and execution skills
• Product, programme, or transformation leaders with a record of delivery

Formal AI credentials are not required — judgment, curiosity, and execution matter more than theory.

About Harris Computer

Harris’ strategy focuses on acquiring software businesses, strengthening and managing them well, and growing them for the future. Our companies provide mission-critical software solutions to a global customer base across various vertical markets. We are a part of Constellation Software Inc. (TSX: CSU), one of the world’s most active acquirers of software businesses. At Harris, we strive to create a respectful and united environment where all members of our globally diverse community are empowered and have equitable opportunities to succeed.

Benefits

Harris offers an extremely competitive UK employee benefits programme. 5 Personal Days leave entitlement are granted over and above the standard 25 days holiday and bank holidays. Harris also offers all UK employees an annual Lifestyle Reward amounting £325 per annum/pro rata.

Supporting your application

Our recruitment process will comprise of interviews and, at times, a written exercise, an assessment day and/or a presentation. As an equal opportunities’ employer, we want to make sure we do all we can to make this a positive experience for you. When applying, please make us aware on your application of any adjustments or additional support we can provide you with before or on the day of an interview.

Our commitment to fair and equitable hiring. As part of our recruitment process, we use artificial intelligence (AI) tools during the initial screening phase to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely align with the requirements of the role. This technology supports efficiency and consistency in the early stages, but it never replaces human judgement. All subsequent evaluations and final hiring decisions are made by our recruitment professionals. AI does not make final hiring decisions.