[Hiring] Global AI Transformation & Solutions Lead @AFRY

Role Description

Help shape how AI transforms the world’s leading Pulp & Paper engineering and advisory company. AFRY is looking for a hands-on and business-minded AI leader to accelerate AI transformation across our global Pulp & Paper segment.

The role has two core missions:

• Transform how we work, embedding AI into engineering, project delivery, knowledge management, and everyday ways of working.
• Create AI-enabled products and solutions for our clients, developing scalable concepts and offerings that our regional teams can take to market.

This is not primarily a strategy or coordination role. We are looking for a builder: someone who can move from a business problem to a working solution, from prototype to scaled adoption, and from an individual use case to a repeatable AI product or concept.

You will build on AFRY’s global Pulp & Paper expertise, engineering and project knowledge, client relationships, and capabilities across areas such as MES, digital twins, process modelling, machine learning, and industrial data.

Your role:

• Lead the AI strategy, roadmap, and portfolio for the global Pulp & Paper segment.
• Identify and prioritize high-value AI opportunities across engineering, project delivery, and client operations.
• Take an active role in developing, prototyping, testing, and implementing AI solutions together with engineers, domain experts, and technology specialists.
• Embed AI into engineering and project-delivery workflows to improve productivity, quality, knowledge reuse, and decision-making.
• Turn AFRY’s Pulp & Paper knowledge and expertise into reusable AI-enabled tools and solutions.
• Create AI products, concepts, and repeatable offerings that our regional organizations can take to their clients.
• Build on AFRY’s existing capabilities in areas such as MES, digital twins, process models, machine learning, operational excellence, and industrial data.
• Turn successful solutions into scalable offerings that can be reused across projects, countries, and clients.
• Work closely with regional teams to understand client needs and continuously develop the AI solution portfolio.
• Build AI capability and drive adoption across our global organization.
• Ensure solutions are developed with appropriate attention to data quality, cybersecurity, intellectual property, governance, and responsible AI.
• Measure success through adoption and tangible business and client value, not simply the number of AI pilots launched.
• Regional organizations will continue to own client relationships and commercial execution. Your responsibility is to create the AI-enabled solutions that enable them to succeed in the market.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience applying AI, generative AI, machine learning, automation, and data technologies to real business or industrial challenges.
• Experience taking AI solutions from concept and prototype through implementation, adoption, and scale.
• Strong understanding of modern AI technologies, including LLM-based applications, AI agents and workflows, machine learning, and enterprise knowledge solutions.
• Experience translating business or client problems into practical digital products and scalable solutions.
• Enough technical depth to work credibly with AI, data, software, and engineering specialists.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a pragmatic, value-driven approach to technology.
• The ability to engage effectively with engineers and technical specialists as well as senior business leaders.
• Strong stakeholder and change-leadership capabilities in an international environment.
• A genuine bias toward action, experimentation, and measurable outcomes.
• Experience in industrial AI, manufacturing, process industries, MES, digital twins, process optimization, industrial data, or engineering environments would be particularly relevant.
• Deep Pulp & Paper expertise is an advantage, but not a prerequisite.

Benefits

• Opportunity to help transform how AFRY delivers engineering and projects while building the next generation of AI-enabled solutions for the Pulp & Paper industry.
• Work in a global industrial environment with a focus on building, implementing, and scaling AI solutions.

Company Description

AFRY is a European leader in engineering, design, and advisory services, with a global reach. We accelerate the transition towards a sustainable society. We are 19,000 devoted experts in infrastructure, industry, energy, and digitalization, creating sustainable solutions for generations to come.