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 322 000 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.

About the role

The AI Strategy Lead strengthens Securitas’ ability to scale AI adoption and progress strategic bets by enabling the technical capabilities, federated execution structures and technology recommendations needed across the organization.

The role acts as a bridge between business and technology, translating external AI technology developments and internal business needs into practical capability priorities, tooling recommendations and strategic innovation input. It combines strategic thinking with hands-on enablement, ensuring that AI and innovation is not run as individual initiatives solely but is supported by a scalable system of people, processes and technology.

The role requires strong technical credibility and understanding of end-to-end AI product development. This expertise is used to challenge assumptions, guide better decisions, support federated AI and innovation contributors, advise on GenAI and agentic tooling, and help the AI Impact Hub become a stronger capability multiplier for both broad adoption and high impact innovation.

Responsibilities

1. Own external AI technology outlook and learning loop

Maintain and translate an external perspective on AI technology development into Securitas-relevant capability priorities, tooling recommendations and strategic innovation input.

Track emerging AI technology developments across GenAI, agentic AI and applied AI use cases relevant for Securitas enterprise setting.

Translate external AI technology signals into implications for Securitas’ capabilities, tools, operating model, technical prerequisites and strategic innovation opportunities.

Assess what new AI capabilities could make possible for Securitas as input to Strategic bets (new client offerings or value chain transformation).

Provide a business-tech perspective to selected strategic innovation opportunities, clarifying feasibility, scalability, risks, dependencies and build/buy/partner considerations.

Ensure learning loops with external AI networks and relevant industry forums.

Package learnings into practical recommendations across people, process and technology.

2. Lead federated AI capability enablement

Grow and mature the people, capability and enablement structures needed for Securitas to scale systematic AI adoption and transformational innovation across the organization.

Evolve expectations, capability and success criteria for key federated AI and innovation roles such as Federated Specialists (A Federated Specialist is a hybrid business–technology expert who translates opportunities into practical AI solutions, hands-on customizes or build solutions and drives end-to-end implementation to deliver measurable business value).

Identify and solve capability gaps together with business stakeholders, ensuring the right people, skills and ownership structures are in place to support both broad adoption and transformational innovation.

Lead onboarding, enablement and continuous learning for technical federated roles across the AI and innovation ecosystem.

Create practical assets, guidance and learning formats that help technical federated teams apply AI, innovation methods and emerging technologies to real business opportunities.

Connect distributed capability-building to the AI portfolio, value realization practices and strategic innovation opportunities, in close collaboration with the Portfolio & Value Realization Lead and Innovation Lead.
Help define and evolve the tools, technology environments and practical prerequisites needed for federated AI and innovation contributors to explore, test and progress opportunities responsibly and effectively.

3. Provide business-tech input to AI and innovation operating model evolution

Support the AI Impact Hub Lead and team in evolving Securitas’ AI and innovation operating model by bringing a technical capability lens to priority topics.

Identify technical, tooling and capability-related blockers that slow down AI adoption or innovation execution.

Recommend improvements to capabilities, technical prerequisites, tooling, sandbox environments and enabling team interfaces.

Contribute to clarity and scalable ways of working where feasibility, technical handovers, data/tech prerequisites or experimentation environments are critical.

Support role clarity where Federated Specialists, Specialized AI, AI/Data Governance and other IT teams are involved.

Help stakeholders understand what is possible, realistic, risky and valuable from a business-tech perspective.

4. Drive GenAI and agentic capability recommendations

Lead the AI Impact Hub’s practical recommendation process for GenAI and agentic enterprise tools and capabilities, supporting key collaborators across the organization to translate business needs, external technology signals and risk considerations into clear recommendations on what Securitas should test, adopt, scale or avoid.

Monitor external AI tool and agentic AI developments.

Support CIOs in interpreting needs from business teams, Federated Specialists and use case owners.

Support CIOs and Digital workplace to define practical evaluation criteria for tools and capabilities.

Recommend which tools/capabilities Securitas should test, adopt, scale or avoid. Ensure tool recommendations are connected to actual business use cases and adoption needs.

Collaborate with Digital workplace, Security, AI/Data Governance and other relevant stakeholders.

Requirements

Who you are

You are curious, pragmatic and forward-leaning, with the ability to connect business needs and technology possibilities. You bring strong technical credibility in applied AI and know how to translate complexity into clear recommendations, practical enablement and scalable ways of working. You are collaborative, influential and energised by helping others succeed in a fast-moving environment.

Required:

Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in AI, digital transformation, innovation, product, strategy, or technology-enabled business development

Strong business acumen

Experience working in decentralized, global, and matrixed organizations

Strong communication skills, including explaining technical AI concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills across organizational boundaries

Strong technical fluency in applied AI and GenAI

Experience with common enterprise AI solution patterns, such as LLM-based applications, retrieval-based solutions, workflow automation, and AI agents

Experience working end-to-end with AI solution development, from experimentation to deployment and scaling

Ability to assess technical feasibility and enterprise readiness

Good understanding of AI governance, security, privacy, and responsible AI principles

Strategic mindset with strong execution orientation

Preferred:

Experience in an AI CoE, AI enablement function, or innovation office
Experience working end-to-end with AI product development and scaling
Experience with innovation and design thinking processes

Working conditions

This role is open for candidates based in Europe (with preference for candidates based in Sweden, Stockholm).

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 this sounds like the right next step in your professional career, don't hesitate and apply!