Transformation Leader, Professional Services

Adobe Adobe · Enterprise · London, United Kingdom

This role is for a Transformation Leader within Adobe Professional Services, focusing on guiding clients through complex business transformations driven by AI, automation, and agentic models. The role involves shaping strategy, enabling execution, and embedding repeatable excellence, acting as an embedded leader within customer programs to bridge commercial ambition with delivery implementation. It requires managing the transformation partnership from vision to value, developing transformation IP, and collaborating with various teams to win deals and orchestrate delivery.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage the transformation and the partnership from start to finish - from initial pre-sales planning through delivery, adoption, and value realisation.
  2. Connect commercial goals and delivery efforts, ensuring the vision sold is the vision delivered.
  3. Develop strong, industry-relevant points of view and convert them into executable transformation roadmaps and success plans.
  4. Secure and sustain C-suite confidence, building trusted advisor relationships grounded in clarity, insight, and strategic mentorship.
  5. Guide customers in preparing for transformation, covering operating model, capability, governance, and the influence of AI and agentic technologies.

Skills

Required

  • Proven experience owning major client transformations from strategy through execution, ideally in professional services.
  • A strong record of securing and growing large-scale business tied to major platform investments.
  • Experience developing others and uplifting capability across consulting, transformation, or delivery teams.
  • Ability to influence and encourage senior executives, securing belief, investment, and alignment.
  • Critical thinking grounded in real-world delivery, including the ability to translate AI-enabled futures into actionable plans.
  • Expertise in transformation disciplines - operating model development, governance, change, and benefits achievement.
  • Comprehensive knowledge of the organisational challenges of AI and agentic workflows, along with the assurance to lead clients through them.
  • Outstanding communication, facilitation, and storytelling skills that drive clarity and confident decisions.
  • A collaborative leadership style that works fluidly across pre-sales, delivery, partners, and executives.
  • A relentless focus on outcomes, adoption, and realised value - never just activity!

What the JD emphasized

  • AI and agentic technologies
  • AI-enabled futures
  • AI and agentic workflows