The Role
Leads AI-driven strategy and transformation engagements for financial services and insurance clients. Advises C-level stakeholders, develops business opportunities, manages complex cross-functional programs, applies operating model and AI roadmapping frameworks, and coaches strategy teams. Requires strong consulting, business development, delivery, team leadership, communication, and networking capabilities, with frequent international client engagement across the UK and France.
Summary Generated by Built In
As a (Senior) Manager Strategy & AI Transformation at vector8 in Switzerland, you will partner with leading Financial Services and Insurance clients to design and implement AI-driven strategies. Together, you shape business transformations - from refining propositions that deliver measurable business outcomes to driving change management and optimizing organizational design.
You will join a small, entrepreneurial, multi-disciplinary team where your expertise will directly shape the firm’s impact. This role requires strong consulting foundations, a passion for networking and business development, experience in leading teams and a willingness to travel for client engagements.
Job requirements
Job responsibilities
Benefits
You will join a small, entrepreneurial, multi-disciplinary team where your expertise will directly shape the firm’s impact. This role requires strong consulting foundations, a passion for networking and business development, experience in leading teams and a willingness to travel for client engagements.
Job requirements
- Master degree in Business, Economics or STEM from a leading institution
- Minimum 6 years of experience in a top-tier consulting firm, ideally in complex, regulated industries (e.g., financial services, insurance, banking)
- Proven track record in strategic management consulting
- Strong foundations in consulting: communication, project management, facilitation of workshops, business development/selling projects and outcome-driven delivery
- Enthusiastic generalist with a sweet spot in future-oriented business strategies and technical knowledge
- Genuine enthusiasm for AI
- Advantageous: Expertise in data and/or AI strategy, governance and management, with the ability to structure and oversee large-scale initiatives
- Minimum 4 years of experience in professional team management and disciplinary leadership
- Ability to lead, inspire and collaborate - with a drive to create impact for both clients and team members
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in German and English (French is a strong plus)
- Willingness to travel for client engagements, particularly in the UK and France
Job responsibilities
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership (C-Level), fostering strong, collaborative relationships and integrating into key strategic decision-making processes
- Proactively identify and develop growth opportunities across the client’s broader organizational landscape
- Lead complex, cross-functional transformation programs that drive change across strategic, operational, technological, and cultural dimensions- delivering outcomes on time, within scope, and to the highest standard
- Guide and coach the strategy team to enhance their effectiveness, strengthen collaboration, and support successful, cohesive delivery.
- Apply proven strategy frameworks and delivery methodologies (e.g., operating model design, agile transformation, data/AI roadmapping) to ensure impact and train your team
- Travel internationally as part of high-profile client engagements (primarily UK and France)
Benefits
- Compensation & rewards: Competitive base salary with a variable performance-based bonus
- Work environment: Modern office in the heart of Zurich with access to an on-site gym, sports classes (yoga,pilates, spinning) and healthy snacks
- Flexibility: Hybrid working model — balance remote work with in-office collaboration
- Learning & growth: Ongoing investment in your professional development, with clear opportunities to take on leadership
- Parental leave: 16 weeks fully paid maternity leave, with a flexible 50% return-to-work option in the first month (while receiving full salary) and 4 weeks fully paid leave for the second parent
- Travel & mobility: Paid Halbtax travel card to support sustainable commuting
- Team & culture: Join a diverse, international team across 5 locations, with regular team events and opportunities for cross-border collaboration
- Recognition & rewards: Attractive referral bonuses for both candidate and client conversions.
- Our values: A culture grounded in inclusivity, curiosity, ownership, and collaboration — where your ideas shape the future of AI consulting.
Skills Required
- Master's degree in Business, Economics, or STEM from a leading institution
- Minimum 6 years of experience in a top-tier consulting firm
- Experience in complex, regulated industries such as financial services, insurance, or banking
- Proven track record in strategic management consulting
- Strong communication, project management, workshop facilitation, business development, sales, and outcome-driven delivery skills
- Knowledge of future-oriented business strategies and technical concepts
- Genuine enthusiasm for AI
- Expertise in data or AI strategy, governance, and management
- Ability to structure and oversee large-scale initiatives
- Minimum 4 years of professional team management and disciplinary leadership experience
- Ability to lead, inspire, and collaborate effectively
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in German and English
- French language skills
- Willingness to travel for client engagements, particularly in the UK and France
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The Company
What We Do
vector8 is an enterprise AI transformation partner that helps ambitious organisations adopt and use artificial intelligence. It advises clients on the best path forward and builds tailored solutions that create competitive advantage. The company combines human expertise with advanced AI technologies to improve growth, efficiency and resilience, while its engineers, consultants and innovators deliver practical solutions across sectors for global clients.
