Location/Office Policy:  Central Park with Hybrid Working (3 days per week in the office)

What is the Role:

This is a senior leadership role within the Enterprise Delivery function, responsible for driving enterprise-wide transformation initiatives aligned with AIB’s strategic priorities of efficiency and customer-first delivery. The successful candidate will shape the future of the Enterprise Delivery function by leveraging technology, optimising synergies, and fostering innovation. The role requires championing a culture of continuous improvement and cross-functional collaboration within Enterprise Delivery and across the wider Group, ensuring alignment and shared ownership of transformation goals.

As this is a new team, the successful candidate will establish and lead a high-performing transformation team focused on delivering measurable, sustainable outcomes. The role promotes excellence in execution and embeds a results-driven mindset across all initiatives.

Key Accountabilities:

• Lead the identification, prioritisation, and delivery of major transformation initiatives across Enterprise Delivery and the wider AIB Group.
• Develop and maintain a continuously evolving pipeline of transformation activity, proactively identifying and leveraging emerging tools, technologies (including AI), and market trends.
• Champion cross-functional collaboration, engaging stakeholders at all levels to secure commitment and drive delivery.
• Build consensus and negotiate priorities with senior stakeholders across multiple functions, developing compelling business cases with clearly defined, tangible benefits.
• Oversee the development of a high-performing, cross-functional transformation team, ensuring strong employee engagement, clear career progression pathways, and robust succession planning.
• Collaborate closely with key AIB partners and suppliers to maximise their contribution and value in delivering transformation initiatives.
• Ensure transformation initiatives are resilient, adaptable to regulatory requirements, and deliver positive outcomes for customers, employees, and the business.
• Maintain accountability for transformation outcomes, including risk mitigation, capacity optimisation, cost efficiency, process simplification, and enhanced customer satisfaction.

What You Will Bring:

• Experience in leading large-scale transformation within the financial services industry, specifically through the use of AI and emerging technologies.
• Proven track record of successfully managing cross-functional projects and programmes.
• Demonstrated ability to build and lead high-performing, multi-disciplinary teams.
• Strong experience in cultivating technical innovation, with a focus on creating new and faster ways for the organisation to be successful.
• Proven experience navigating complex organisational structures and managing internal and external senior stakeholders.
• Excellent collaboration skills, with experience building partnerships with senior stakeholders and working collaboratively to meet shared objectives.
• Strong, concise, accurate, and effective written and oral communication skills; able to engage with individuals across all levels of a financial institution.
• Familiarity with the current and emerging technology and future trends.

Why Work for AIB:

We are committed to offering our colleagues choice and flexibility in how we work and live, and our hybrid working model enables our people to balance their time between working from home and their designated office, subject to their role, the needs of our customers, and business requirements.

Some of our benefits include:

• Market leading Pension Scheme
• Healthcare Scheme
• Variable Pay
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Family leave options
• Two volunteer days per year

Please click here for further information about AIB’s PACT – Our Commitment to You.

Key Capabilities:

• Strategy Development
• Change Management
• Customer First
• End to End Thinking
• Operational Excellence
• Promotes Innovation

If you are not sure about your suitability based on any aspects of the role advertised, and require any support with the Recruitment process, please contact the recruiter Sarah Lyons at careers@aib.ie .

AIB is an equal opportunities employer, and we pride ourselves on being the first bank in Ireland to receive the Investors in Diversity Gold Standard accreditation from the Irish Centre for Diversity. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees. Should you have a reasonable accommodation request, please email the Talent Acquisition team at careers@aib.ie.

Application Deadline: 13th January 2026