AI Implementation Champion

Core-Asset Consulting Ltd; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A consulting company in Newcastle is seeking an AI Implementation Champion to collaborate with senior leadership in creating and executing an AI roadmap. This role involves driving technology-led changes, developing training programs, and ensuring responsible AI adoption while managing stakeholder engagement. Ideal candidates will have experience in AI programmes and strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience driving technology-led change in data or AI programmes.
• Strong communication skills for business and technical audiences.
• Ability to make complex AI concepts clear and accessible.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the CTO to define a practical AI strategy.
• Shape and oversee AI implementation, ensuring business value.
• Design and deliver an internal AI education programme.

Skills

Driving technology-led change

Communication and facilitation skills

Explaining complex AI concepts

Developing education or training programmes

Familiarity with governance frameworks

Understanding of large language models

Job description

Overview

Our client in Newcastle is looking for an AI Implementation Champion to work closely with senior leadership to design and deliver an AI roadmap, build organisational literacy, and surface opportunities that create measurable value.

Skills/Experience

Essential:

• Demonstrable experience driving technology-led change, ideally within data or AI programmes.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills across business and technical audiences.
• Ability to explain complex AI concepts in a clear, business-friendly way.
• Proven experience developing education, training, or enablement programmes.
• Familiarity with governance and risk management frameworks in a regulated environment.

Desirable:

• Understanding of large language models, Microsoft Copilot, or similar generative AI tools.
• Experience embedding innovation within complex, multi-stakeholder organisations.
• Knowledge of change management principles.

Core Responsibilities

AI Strategy & Implementation:

• Partner with the CTO to define and evolve a practical, business-focused AI strategy.
• Develop and maintain a delivery roadmap linked to organisational priorities, categorised into:
• Operational Efficiency - reducing effort and error in repetitive tasks.
• Operational Effectiveness - enhancing precision, speed, and quality of processes.
• Differentiation - creating unique capabilities that strengthen competitive advantage.
• Shape and oversee implementation of AI use cases, ensuring ownership, tracking, and delivery of clear business value.

AI Education & Cultural Enablement:

• Design and deliver an internal AI education programme tailored to operators, managers, and senior stakeholders.
• Lead awareness sessions, demos, and onboarding material to build confidence in responsible AI adoption.
• Produce accessible resources such as playbooks, FAQs, and guidance documents to support teams in identifying opportunities.
• Foster a healthy, creative AI mindset that encourages innovation while managing expectations.

Stakeholder Engagement & Opportunity Surfacing:

• Act as a trusted advisor across departments, supporting leaders to understand and embrace AI opportunities.
• Proactively identify high-impact use cases where AI can improve efficiency or unlock new capabilities.
• Translate business needs into structured requirements, working with technical teams to assess feasibility.
• Prioritise opportunities based on alignment to strategy, business value, risk, and readiness.

Risk Engagement & Governance:

• Partner with risk, compliance, and security teams to ensure alignment with regulatory and internal standards.
• Embed governance principles into the AI delivery lifecycle, covering data privacy, auditability, explainability, and fairness.
• Maintain robust records of AI implementation decisions to ensure traceability of data, models, and outcomes.
• Equip users to understand both the capabilities and limitations of AI tools.

Outcome Tracking & Continuous Improvement:

• Define metrics to evaluate the success and impact of AI initiatives.
• Ensure implemented solutions are embedded into business-as-usual operations.
• Use feedback loops to refine the education programme, strategy, and delivery pipeline, ensuring continuous improvement.

Core-Asset Consulting is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital/civil partner status or pregnancy.

Job reference: 16192

To apply for this vacancy applicants must be eligible to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.

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