Senior Strategy Consultant – AI Strategy for an Industrial Group

Project overview

We are supporting a large industrial group in developing and detailing a company-wide AI strategy for the central IT director. The focus is on a complex industrial environment with extensive IT structures, production-related systems, and diverse business and production areas.

The focus is not on the technical implementation of individual AI solutions. The emphasis is on strategic positioning, prioritization, and transformation: from analyzing existing activities and defining the AI vision to creating an actionable roadmap with concrete initiatives.

Profile Sought

We are looking for a senior strategy consulting personality with experience at the interface of AI, corporate IT, and industrial value creation.

Responsibilities

You will work closely with our team as well as contacts from IT management, business units, and production.

What You Bring

Mandatory Criteria

Advantageous, experience with topics such as:

AI Strategy · GenAI · Agentic AI · AI Governance · Industrial AI · Smart Manufacturing · Predictive Maintenance · Production Optimization · Supply Chain · IT/OT · Data Platforms · AI Operating Model · Responsible AI · Project experience in heavy industry, steel or metal industry · Experience in chemical, automotive, mechanical engineering, or comparable production environments

Framework Conditions

Application or Contact

Please apply directly via freelancermap and send us your current profile with relevant project references in the area of AI strategy, CIO Advisory, and industry.

• Analyze existing AI activities and the strategic starting position, and develop/refine a target vision.
• Identify, structure, and prioritize relevant AI fields of action and use cases.
• Derive an implementation-oriented AI roadmap with concrete initiatives, dependencies, and next steps.
• Evaluate governance, organization, data, technology, and competencies as central prerequisites for AI transformation.
• Position GenAI, AI Agents, and classic AI/ML applications for industrial application areas and translate technological developments into strategic and economic action options.
• Shape the interaction between central IT, business, and production, and prepare and moderate workshops with IT executives and relevant stakeholders.
• Create management-ready decision documents.
• Demonstrable several years of experience in strategy consulting, management consulting, or IT/CIO Advisory
• Experience in developing or detailing AI strategies
• Profound understanding of complex corporate and IT structures in large industrial companies, or comparable production environments such as chemical or mechanical engineering
• Ability to translate technological developments into strategic, economic, and organizational options
• Experience in collaborating with CIOs, IT executives, and senior management
• Experience with legal AI frameworks and co-determination
• Very good workshop, communication, and presentation skills
• Fluent German language skills
• Start: Short notice / by arrangement
• Engagement: Project-based, freelance
• Location: Northern Germany
• Work Mode: Mix of remote work and on-site appointments
• Language: German
• Industry: Plant and Mechanical Engineering / Trade

Project details

• Start: ab sofort
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Norddeutschland, Deutschland, DE
• Languages: German