AI CoE - Value Realisation Lead

What is the opportunity?

The AI Centre of Excellence (CoE) is the Bank's powerhouse for safe, responsible and scalable AI adoption. It sets the vision, standards and governance that shape how AI is built and deployed across the organisation, while providing the platforms, expertise and partnership needed to turn ideas into high value outcomes.

This role is the engine that turns AI investment into real, measurable business impact. By owning value assessment, prioritisation and benefits tracking, you shape which AI initiatives get funded and how success is defined across the organisation.

It's a chance to influence senior leaders, challenge assumptions and embed a value first attitude at the heart of the AI portfolio. Sitting at the crossroads of strategy, finance and delivery, this role gives you a front row seat and a crucial voice in how the Bank harnesses AI to drive meaningful outcomes.

In this role, you will:

• Own and continuously refine the AI value assessment and prioritisation framework, owning the AI Value Forum and ensuring investment decisions are grounded in robust, transparent cases.
• Maintain portfolio level ROI reporting and dashboards, challenging value assumptions and tracking realisation from intake through PoC, launch and BAU.
• Partner across Finance, Delivery, Operations and business divisions to ensure timelines, scope, resources and business cases align with financial standards and maximise value.
• Develop value measurement methodologies for different AI archetypes, advise teams on structuring and realising business value, and contribute to AI value thought leadership.

What will make you stand out?

• Experience in case development, value management or financial analysis, with strong financial competence to build, challenge and validate complex investment cases.
• Solid understanding of AI and data concepts, paired with excellent analytical skills to turn financial and operational data into clear insights.
• Strong stakeholder influencing and communication skills, including executive level reporting and the confidence to challenge senior assumptions.
• Commercial, pragmatic approach with desirable experience in regulated financial services.

Essential Qualifications

There are no specific qualifications or minimum educational requirements needed for this role.

More about the team

Working at the intersection of innovation and control, the CoE ensures the Bank can unlock meaningful business impact from AI while upholding the highest expectations of ethics, risk management and regulatory compliance. It's where cutting edge capability meets disciplined execution enabling the Bank to harness AI with confidence, clarity and ambition.

This is a hybrid role, based primarily in Dublin. We typically ask colleagues to spend a minimum of 8 days per month working in-person to support teamwork and connection. Specific arrangements will be confirmed by your recruiter to ensure they meet the needs of the role and team.

Why work with us?

The Bank of Ireland company culture prioritises work-life balance with an opportunity for flexible working, along with 25 days annual leave and excellent pension contributions. Family can mean different things to different people; we offer 6 months paid maternity leave, an innovative fertility and surrogacy policy and working parent supports.

Your wellbeing is important to us; we have an employee assistance program, WebDoctor and financial wellbeing coaches available. We also encourage and support staff to pursue educational and professional qualifications to grow and enhance your career!

Key Competencies

• Customer Focused - Leader
• Better together - Leader
• Be Decisive - Leader
• Take Ownership - Leader
• Manage Risk - Leader

We're on a continuous journey to build an inclusive and diverse workplace. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, lived experience, abilities and perspectives. We provide reasonable accommodations at every stage of our recruitment process for disabilities, neurodivergence or medical conditions. If you require an accommodation please complete this form and one of our recruitment team members will be in touch via email. Any information provided will be treated as confidential within the recruitment team and used only for the purpose of determining and providing appropriate accommodations for the application and recruitment process.

Where Agency assistance is required Bank of Ireland Recruitment Team will engage directly with suppliers. Unsolicited CVs / profiles supplied to Bank of Ireland by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this role.