Executive Manager, AI Strategy, Partnerships

Role Overview
The Executive Manager for AI Strategy & Portfolio leads the definition and management of the enterprise AI strategy and roadmap, ensuring that AI investments and initiatives are strategically aligned with business priorities and deliver measurable value. This role provides strategic leadership in the assessment of AI opportunities and portfolio governance. The role ensures the AI agenda remains forward-looking, evidence-based, and integrated with broader enterprise strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with strategy teams across the Group to align AI strategy, delivery, and adoption activities.
• Engage with relevant teams to integrate AI initiatives into enterprise strategic and investment planning.
• Coordinate with Finance to manage investment prioritisation, funding requests, and benefits realisation tracking.
• Oversee AI use case assessment and prioritisation processes, ensuring that the AI portfolio reflects the organisation's strategic objectives.
• Lead the development and annual refresh of the Enterprise AI Strategy and Roadmap, ensuring endorsement through governance forums.
• Establish and manage strategic partnerships with external AI ecosystem participants to access talent, technologies, and innovation opportunities.
• Maintain and update the AI Portfolio Register, aligning all initiatives to business value and capability maturity levels.
• Facilitate AI strategy scanning forums and future-focused workshops to guide enterprise AI direction and identify emerging opportunities.
• Define and lead the development of reporting frameworks that ensure accuracy, transparency, and actionable insights, enabling the identification of innovation opportunities that inform strategic AI investment and decision-making.

By executing these responsibilities, you will ensure the successful acceleration of AI initiatives across the group, helping to deliver measurable impact at scale.

About You:

• Proven relationship-building and leadership skills with the ability to influence at the Executive level, both inside and outside CommBank.
• Extensive experience in strategic planning and portfolio governance.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen.
• Understanding of enterprise architecture and AI technology landscape is desirable.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, able to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong problem solving and analytical mindset to identify and problem solve group-wide business problems

Your ability to
translate strategic ambition into an actionable, measurable AI portfolio
that both accelerates enterprise value and enables innovation. This role must be able to
balance strategic foresight with operational discipline
—defining clear priorities, ensuring transparent and accurate reporting, and continuously identifying opportunities for AI-driven differentiation across the Group.

Working with us:
Whether you're passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career with us is for you.

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time connecting in office. We also have many other flexible working options available including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few.

Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace with flexible work locations. We're looking for people who truly live our values: Care, Courage and Commitment and we'll offer you great opportunities to develop your career with us.

If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We're keen to support you with the next step in your career.

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If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We're keen to support you with the next step in your career.

We're aware of some accessibility issues on this site, particularly for screen reader users. We want to make finding your dream job as easy as possible, so if you require additional support please contact HR Direct on

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