Value & Control Lead

Value & Control Lead

Own the value and prioritisation layer of the enterprise AI portfolio. Translate enterprise priorities into a governed, capacity-aware portfolio and ensure every activated use case has accountable business ownership, measurable outcomes, funding clarity, and a credible path to adoption and operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise AI demand and value portfolio, including prioritisation criteria, value hypotheses, benefit owners, funding logic, and portfolio trade-offs.
• Chair portfolio prioritisation and value reviews with business sponsors, CIOs, Product Owners, Finance, and the AI CoE.
• Ensure each use case has a named Business Owner, Product Owner, Data Owner, Operations Owner, and Finance

Benefits

• Partner before activation.

• Align demand with India platform and pod capacity; recommend activation, deferral, sequencing, or de-scoping decisions.

• Define objectives, key results, adoption measures, and value-realisation evidence; maintain an executive portfolio dashboard.

• Challenge business cases and benefit claims constructively; distinguish technical delivery, adoption, and realised business value.

• Coordinate funding and chargeback decisions for platform, shared CoE services, and use-case delivery.

• Own executive narrative and portfolio recommendations for the AI SteerCo and Zenith governance.

• Experiences

• 15+ years in portfolio, transformation, product, or value management, including 3+ years in data, AI, or digital transformation.

• P1 - Must Have

• Large-scale portfolio/value governance in a multinational, multi-vendor environment.

• Business-case shaping, benefits tracking, capacity allocation, and executive prioritisation.

• Ability to translate AI opportunities into measurable business outcomes and adoption commitments.

• Finance acumen covering investment logic, platform versus use-case funding, chargeback, and value evidence.

• Executive communication and facilitation skills; ability to challenge assumptions and resolve cross-functional trade-offs.

• Working understanding of Responsible AI, security, data readiness, and product lifecycle dependencies.

• P2 - Preferred

• Experience in manufacturing, steel, or asset-heavy industries.

• Product portfolio management and stage-gate investment governance.

• Power BI or equivalent executive reporting.

• PMP/PgMP, SAFe Lean Portfolio Management, or product management certification.

• Core Competencies

• Stakeholder orientation and executive influence

• Results and value orientation

• Courage to challenge and sound judgement

• Cross-cultural collaboration across Europe and India

• Learning agility and capability building

• Structured decision-making and transparent governance

• Key Deliverables

• Prioritised AI portfolio

• Value framework

• Benefits register

• Funding and ownership map

• Capacity-allocation recommendations

• Executive value dashboard

• Portfolio decision packs

• First 90 Days

• Confirm the portfolio taxonomy, prioritisation model, and benefit-owner requirements.

• Baseline all active and proposed use cases with ownership, value hypothesis, funding, and readiness.

• Run the first portfolio/value review and establish the executive dashboard.

• Take ownership of at least one activation or sequencing decision using evidence from business, architecture, data, and capacity reviews.

• About Us

• ArcelorMittal is the world's leading steel and mining company, with a presence in 60 countries and primary steelmaking facilities in 15 countries. Our material is part of the fabric of life. What we produce makes a difference – to individuals, communities, businesses and society. At ArcelorMittal, the safety, health, and wellbeing of our employees are our top priorities. We believe that every accident is avoidable, and it is essential for every employee, from the shop floor to the management committee, to hold this belief.

• Our purpose is to produce ever smarter steels that have a positive benefit for people and planet. Steels made using innovative processes which use less energy, emit significantly less carbon and reduce costs. Steels that are cleaner, stronger and reusable. Steels for electric vehicles and renewable energy infrastructure that will support societies as they transform through this century. With steel at our core, our inventive people and an entrepreneurial culture at heart, we will support the world in making that change. This is what we believe it takes to be the steel company of the future.