AI Adoption & Governance - Managing Consultant - Permanent - SC Eligibility
Location: London, Manchester, Newcastle, Bristol or Glasgow
Salary up to £88,000 + Bonus & Benefits
SC Eligibility or Active SC essential
A leading transformation client is looking for a Management Consultant to who will help clients safely and responsibly adopt AI at scale. This role sits at the intersection of AI strategy, governance, risk, controls, regulation, and transformation. You will work with C-suite executives, technology leaders, risk functions, and regulators to design and implement practical Responsible AI frameworks, governance operating models, risk management approaches, and controls that enable innovation whilst maintaining regulatory compliance and stakeholder trust.
The Role:
Client Leadership & Advisory
- Serve as a trusted advisor to CIOs, CTOs, Chief AI Officers, Chief Risk Officers, and Heads of Technology.
- Lead executive discussions on Responsible AI, AI Governance, AI Risk, Agentic AI, and emerging regulatory requirements.
- Develop strategic recommendations and transformation roadmaps for AI adoption.
AI Governance Transformation
- Design enterprise AI governance frameworks aligned to regulatory expectations and industry best practice.
- Establish AI Governance Offices and target operating models.
- Design governance processes covering ideation, experimentation, approval, deployment, monitoring, and retirement.
- Develop governance artefacts including policies, standards, control frameworks, procedures, and risk taxonomies.
- Support clients in defining governance structures, ownership models, and accountability across the three lines of defence.
- Lead Responsible AI assessments across people, process, technology, and data dimensions.
- Design AI controls aligned to client risk frameworks and regulatory obligations.
- Conduct AI risk and control maturity assessments.
- Support regulatory remediation and control enhancement programmes.
Governance Platform & Technology Enablement
- Advise clients on technology-enabled governance approaches.
- Define requirements for AI governance platforms and workflow solutions.
- Support implementation of governance capabilities using platforms such as ServiceNow, Microsoft Power Platform, Appian, and other governance technologies.
- Design governance workflows, approvals, reporting, and monitoring capabilities.
- Help clients establish centralised AI inventories and auditable governance processes.
Your profile:
We are looking for an individual who can confidently engage a Group CIO, facilitate an AI Risk Committee, and lead a governance transformation workstream. They combine strategic consulting capability with deep expertise in AI governance, risk, controls, regulation, and operating model design.
- 8+ years of consulting, banking, technology risk, governance, or regulatory experience.
- Experience designing and implementing AI Governance and Responsible AI frameworks.
- Strong understanding of AI, Generative AI, and emerging Agentic AI concepts.
- Experience working with risk, compliance, legal, audit, and regulator-facing stakeholders.
- Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams and complex transformation engagements.
- Excellent executive stakeholder management and presentation skills.