Ferrero Group is hiring an AI CoE Manager

The Ferrero Group is looking for an AI CoE Manager to lead our Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence. Reporting to Data & AI leadership, you will act as a strategic and technical reference point, enabling AI adoption across the organization. Your role is to ensure our initiatives support business goals while remaining sustainable, scalable, and aligned with enterprise principles.

What You'll Do

• Define, govern, and continuously evolve solution design standards and architectural guidelines for Artificial Intelligence solutions.
• Lead design review and approval processes, promoting the reuse of patterns and accelerators.
• Ensure non-functional requirements such as security, performance, reliability, and maintainability are systematically embedded in AI solutions.
• Oversee the adoption of robust AI engineering practices across the full solution lifecycle, including model training, deployment, serving, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure the consistent use of the enterprise tool chain for code, models, and AI agents, and the operational quality and reliability of AI solutions in production.
• Define and maintain evaluation and supervision frameworks for AI solutions, enabling assessment of performance and prevention of compliance drift.
• Ensure bias mitigation, explainability, security controls, and regulatory compliance checks are properly implemented and monitored in line with Responsible AI principles.
• Support delivery teams in the design and implementation of AI solutions, acting as a technical authority on standards and quality.
• Contribute to the exploration of innovative technologies, leverage new capabilities in existing platforms, and ensure end-to-end efficiency for ML and AI solutions.
• Continuously engage with business stakeholders to identify opportunities and maximize the impact of AI across the organization.
• Lead and develop the AI CoE team, guiding the growth of AI Architects, AI Engineers, and AI Evaluation specialists.
• Coordinate technology partners and AI specialized suppliers to support the delivery, evolution, and sustainability of AI solutions at enterprise level.

What We're Looking For

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related discipline.
• Solid professional track record over several years working with Machine Learning, Generative AI, and Agentic solutions at scale.
• Strong background in Data, AI, and advanced analytics.
• Extensive experience in technical or coordination roles within complex enterprise environments.
• Deep understanding of cloud architectures, data platforms, and modern engineering practices such as DevOps, MLOps, LLMOps, and AgentOps.
• Comfortable defining standards, governance frameworks, and evaluation models.
• Strong awareness of data security, regulatory compliance, and Responsible AI principles.
• Fluent in English.
• Used to working in cross functional and multicultural environments, engaging business and technical stakeholders with credibility and clarity.

Nice to Have

• Experience in managing technology partners and vendor ecosystems.

Team & Environment

You will be part of the Data & AI function within the Global IT organization, reporting to Data & AI leadership.

Work Mode

This is a hybrid role based at our offices in Alba.

Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities.