AI Portfolio & Value realization Lead
SECURITAS GROUP
Securitas is a world-leading safety and security solutions partner that helps make your world a safer place. By leveraging technology in partnership with our clients, we offer a broad portfolio of value-enhancing services and solutions integrated across the security value chain – from on-site services to advanced monitoring, comprehensive risk prediction and advisory services.
With around 336 000 employees in 44 markets, our innovative, holistic approach with local and global expertise makes us a trusted business partner to many of the world’s best-known companies. Benefitting from almost nine decades of deep experience and guided by our values of integrity, vigilance, and helpfulness, we create sustainable value by helping our clients optimize their operations and protect what matters most - their people and assets.
SECURITAS IT
Securitas IT creates capabilities and powerful technology needed to fulfil Securitas business strategy to be client centric, data driven, and people focused. We transform, build and protect our IT landscape in a cost-efficient and sufficient way.
Our Mission
At Securitas, we are redefining the future of safety and security. AI is at the centre of this transformation. The AI Impact Hub is the key enabler of this evolution. As our AI Portfolio & Value realization lead you will be the operational heartbeat of our global AI transformation. You will increase Securitas’ ability to identify, prioritize, quantify and progress AI opportunities with a focus on portfolio transparency, value realization, and a selected transformative strategic bets.
Role Summary
AI Portfolio & Value realization Lead is a senior individual contributor role for someone who is eager to shape enterprise AI adoption and development at one of Sweden’s largest companies. You combine practical AI and innovation experience, strong stakeholder management and business acumen. You will help create structure and momentum across Securitas’ AI portfolio, coordinate a limited number of high-impact innovation opportunities from framing to handover and enable stronger value realization practices.
You will not own end-to-end delivery in the business. Instead, you will act as an orchestrator who improves visibility, decision quality, business commitment and the likelihood that valuable AI opportunities move forward. In a decentralized and complex organization, this role plays a critical part in driving innovation to realization by aligning stakeholders, creating clarity, and ensuring a pragmatic, value-focused approach that strengthens business ownership and execution.
The team
The AI impact hub is a lean team established late 2024 that orchestrates and enables Securitas global AI transformation with two missions:
Broad AI adoption across all functions and business units
Make strategic bets to re-invent our offering and value chain
The team consist of its lead, an AI strategist and a Research & Design lead. Key collaborators are a broad ~200 people AI community across Securitas and specialist collaborators like the ~20 people Specialized AI team.
Key Responsibilities
1. Build and maintain AI use case portfolio transparency:
AI use case portfolio ownership: Responsible for evolving the structure and way of working with tracking AI use cases across our business units and functions. Ensure community members actively add use cases to the global portfolio. Utilize portfolio as an entry point to identify and/or expand use cases into potential high impact innovation opportunities.
Knowledge sharing and reuse: Facilitate sharing of use cases between teams and business units across Securitas. Promote reuse of use cases and best practices across the group.
2. Progress selected high-impact innovation opportunities:
High impact AI innovation pipeline and opportunity assessment: Identify and prioritize a few selected high impact opportunities. This involves areas like the future of guarding services and reactive to proactive security risk management programmes. You build a strong network through raising the understanding and commitment of high impact innovation opportunities across the organization. In collaboration with our Research & Design lead and key collaborators, ensure that every opportunity has a clear hypothesis, success criteria and a committed business owner.
Guide and coordinate innovation execution: Guide high-impact opportunities across the organization on next steps. In collaboration with the Research & Design lead and the Specialized AI team, coordinate innovation execution assessing desirability, viability and feasibility. This can for example be done through hackathons together with business representatives and/or clients.
Handover to business: For the few selected opportunities, together with key collaborators, ensure that prototypes are handed over to business owners with clear requirements, success metrics, and implementation roadmaps to maximise the likelihood of scaling and value realisation.
3. Strengthen value realization practices:
Value metrics and realization: Drive the knowledge and narrative of value focused AI transformation, making the case for AI adoption through hands-on examples and measurable outcomes. Enable value estimation and tracking across the organization..
Who we are looking for?
You are curious, adaptable and energised by change.
You connect dots across complex organisations, and bring a can-do attitude to challenges that will help shape and mature the team’s and Securitas’ way of working.
You are motivated by the opportunity to hands-on impact how a global enterprise adopts AI and how to articulate and prove the value of doing so.
You excel at stakeholder management, build strong relationships to influence and build commitment across the organization.
Requirements:
Minimum 5 years of work experience.
Proven relationship building and stakeholder management skills across organizational boundaries.
Strong business acumen with ability to build and evaluate business cases for AI adoption and use cases.
Proficiency in GenAI concepts and applications. Able to have informed conversations about AI capabilities without being a deep technologist.
Experience with innovation portfolio management and/or design thinking processes.
Experience in navigating in a decentralized, large, global and complex organization.
Strong communication skills, including ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Strategic mindset with strong execution orientation.
Preferred:
Experience in an AI Center of Excellence, AI enablement function, or innovation office.
Experience in establishing processes and way of working for portfolio and value tracking of use cases.
Experience working end-to-end with AI product development and scaling.
Working conditions
This role is open for candidates based in Europe (with preference for candidates based in Sweden).
If you are based in Sweden you will be expected to work from one of our offices (Stockholm, Malmo or Jönkoping) two days per week. If you reside in another European country - you will need to align to local hybrid working policy.
What we offer
At Securitas we believe in doing the right thing and doing it well. For our customers and our employees. Our employees come from all walks of life and bring with them many talents and perspectives. We aim for diverse representation throughout the company, and we are committed to equal pay, safe working conditions, gender balance and an inclusive work environment with a wide range of skills and development opportunities.
If you're excited about adopting AI initiatives into global business solutions - don’t hesitate and apply!
- Department
- Securitas IT
- Locations
- Malmö, Stockholm, Sweden, Europe (flexible location), Jönköping
- Remote status
- Hybrid
We Make A Difference Every Day!
We work in an international, explorative, hands-on and dynamic business environment with customers and users in focus.
Our core values: Integrity, Vigilance and Helpfulness - are foundations that enable us to build trust with customers, colleagues, partners and our community.
We love going to work and doing what we do.
About Securitas
Securitas is a world-leading safety and security solutions partner that helps make your world a safer place. With nine decades of deep experience means we see what others miss. By leveraging technology in partnership with our clients, combined with an innovative, holistic approach, we’re transforming the security industry. With 341 000 employees in 44 markets, we see a different world and create sustainable value for our clients by protecting what matters most - their people and assets.