AI Strategy & Enablement Consultant
IQbusiness · Johannesburg, Gauteng
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- The AI Strategy & Enablement Consultant is a client-facing role supporting the Enterprise Modernisation and AI teams. The role combines business analysis, consulting and AI advisory capabilities to help organisations identify, prioritise and progress AI opportunities.
- The core mission is to translate business challenges into practical AI use cases and enable clients to move from interest and experimentation towards structured, responsible and value-focused adoption.
Working alongside AI strategists, solution architects, delivery leads and client stakeholders, the consultant will:
- Demystify AI and Generative AI in clear, business-relevant language.
- Support AI opportunity discovery, use-case definition and prioritisation.
- Gather, analyse and document business requirements, processes and stakeholder needs.
- Contribute to AI maturity assessments, strategies, roadmaps and adoption plans.
- Translate business needs into structured inputs for solution and delivery teams.
- Support responsible AI, governance, change and value-realisation activities.
Key Responsibilities
Demystifying AI & Business Enablement
- Support the design and delivery of AI and GenAI awareness, discovery and enablement sessions.
- Explain core AI concepts, capabilities, limitations, risks and value levers in practical business language.
- Research and prepare relevant industry examples, use cases and discussion material.
- Adapt content to the client context, maturity, priorities and audience.
AI Opportunity Discovery & Use-Case Shaping
- Facilitate or co-facilitate discovery workshops with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Analyse business challenges, processes, pain points and opportunities for AI-enabled improvement.
- Capture and structure potential AI use cases using agreed templates and canvases.
- Assess use cases against business value, feasibility, data readiness, risk, adoption and change impact.
- Support prioritisation backlogs and develop clear use-case narratives, problem statements and expected outcomes.
Business Analysis & Requirements Definition
- Plan and conduct stakeholder interviews, workshops and requirements-gathering activities.
- Document current-state and future-state processes, user journeys, business rules and requirements.
- Translate business needs into clear artefacts for architecture, product, data and delivery teams.
- Support the definition of acceptance criteria, success measures and traceability from problem to outcome.
- Identify dependencies, assumptions, constraints, risks and information gaps.
AI Strategy, Maturity & Roadmap Support
- Contribute research, analysis and structured insights to AI strategy and maturity engagements.
- Support baseline assessments covering business readiness, data, technology, governance, people and adoption.
- Assist in developing practical AI roadmaps that sequence opportunities, foundations and enablement activities.
- Prepare client-ready recommendations, presentations and decision material.
- Maintain roadmaps, initiative backlogs, action registers and supporting documentation.
Solution & Delivery Enablement
- Work with strategists, architects and technical specialists to translate prioritised use cases into solution requirements.
- Support problem framing, user-journey definition, data-readiness analysis and solution option assessment.
- Participate in proof-of-concept, pilot and mobilisation activities.
- Support evaluation planning, user acceptance, feedback gathering and continuous improvement.
- Help maintain alignment between the original business need, proposed solution and intended value.
Responsible AI, Governance & Risk Support
- Apply awareness of privacy, security, model risk, bias, explainability and human oversight when shaping use cases.
- Support the documentation of governance requirements, decision points, controls and escalation paths.
- Coordinate input from business, risk, legal, compliance, security and technical stakeholders.
- Ensure responsible and human-centred AI considerations are reflected in recommendations and delivery artefacts.
Adoption, Change & Value Realisation
- Support stakeholder analysis, change-impact assessment and adoption planning.
- Contribute to communication, learning, enablement and feedback activities.
- Help define adoption, usage, business-outcome and risk indicators.
- Track agreed actions, benefits and learning from pilots and implemented use cases.
- Use insight and feedback to support roadmap refinement and continuous improvement.
Practice Development & Capability Building
- Contribute to reusable AI advisory assets, templates, use-case libraries and delivery methods.
- Capture lessons, case studies and repeatable patterns from client engagements.
- Stay current on AI and GenAI developments, enterprise adoption patterns and responsible AI practices.
- Share knowledge across the EMA and AI teams and support internal capability-building activities.
Minimum Requirements
Essential
- Typically 3-6 years of experience across business analysis, management consulting, digital transformation, product, process improvement or change-related roles.
- Practical exposure to AI, Generative AI, data, analytics, automation or digital-transformation initiatives.
- Experience gathering requirements, analysing processes and translating business needs into structured recommendations or delivery artefacts.
- Experience facilitating or supporting workshops with business and technical stakeholders.
- Strong written communication and experience preparing presentations, reports, process maps or business cases.
- Ability to work across multiple disciplines and contribute effectively within consulting or project environments.
Advantageous
- Experience in management consulting, AI advisory or enterprise transformation.
- Exposure to Microsoft Copilot, enterprise GenAI tools or AI-enabled business solutions.
- Experience with AI use-case assessment, maturity assessments, roadmaps or adoption programmes.
- Business analysis, Agile, product, design thinking or change management certification.
- Experience in regulated or complex enterprise environments.
- Exposure to responsible AI, governance, data privacy, security or risk requirements.
Skills & Competencies
AI, Data & Digital Understanding
- Sound understanding of AI and GenAI concepts, common enterprise use cases, capabilities and limitations.
- Awareness of the AI solution lifecycle, including opportunity discovery, data readiness, design, evaluation, deployment, monitoring and adoption.
- Working understanding of responsible AI, privacy, security, governance and human oversight.
- Ability to learn new AI tools, methods and market developments quickly.
Business Analysis & Consulting
- Requirements gathering and documentation.
- Process analysis and mapping.
- Use-case discovery, problem framing and prioritisation.
- Business case and value articulation.
- Structured problem solving, research and synthesis.
- Roadmap, backlog and action-plan development.
Communication, Facilitation & Stakeholder Engagement
- Clear written and verbal communication with business and technical audiences.
- Confident workshop facilitation and stakeholder interviewing skills.
- Strong presentation development and structured storytelling.
- Ability to build trust, manage differing perspectives and maintain shared understanding.
- Comfort engaging senior stakeholders while recognising when to draw on more experienced specialists.
Delivery, Change & Collaboration
- Collaborative approach across strategy, architecture, delivery, change and client teams.
- Strong organisation, attention to detail and follow-through.
- Awareness of Agile, product or iterative delivery practices.
- Practical understanding of adoption, change impact, learning and benefits tracking.
- Ability to manage ambiguity, competing priorities and evolving requirements.
Mindset
- Curious, pragmatic and commercially aware.
- Analytical an