Architecture and Governance - AI Consultant

Colonial Group; Houghton Regis; Remote; GBP 65,000 - 86,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (BUPA)

Pension 10%

Discounts on Premier Inn & Restaurant

Annual bonus up to 20%

Job summary

Whitbread is seeking an enthusiastic AI Consultant to join the AI Enablement team. You will support delivery of the AI Enablement Plan, help governance standards, and coordinate activities across AI Portfolios and Communities.

The role involves workshops, coaching, and training to uplift AI capability throughout Whitbread. Collaborative and stakeholder-focused, the ideal candidate will drive adoption, monitor progress, and identify opportunities and risks across technology towers and business

Qualifications

• Experience supporting technology, digital transformation, innovation, or change initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills across multiple teams.
• Interest in AI technologies and helping others adopt new capabilities.
• Experience facilitating workshops, training sessions, communities of practice, or engagement programmes.
• Strong organisational skills to coordinate multiple activities and stakeholders.
• Collaborative mindset focused on delivering business value and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Support delivery of Whitbread's AI Enablement Plan and governance model.
• Coordinate activities across the AI Portfolio and AI Asset Register.
• Assist Digital Heroes and AI Communities; organise workshops, hackathons and training.
• Promote AI policies, best practices and governance standards across teams.
• Monitor adoption, identify opportunities and risks; ensure AI initiatives deliver business value.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Communication

Workshop facilitation

Organizational skills

Collaborative mindset

Change management

Job description

At Whitbread, we're on an exciting journey to unlock the power of AI across our business. We're looking for an enthusiastic and collaborative AI Consultant to join our AI Enablement team, supporting the delivery of our AI strategy and helping colleagues across Whitbread realise the benefits of AI safely and effectively. You'll work closely with the AI Manager, Technology teams, and business stakeholders to drive adoption, enable innovation, and support the governance frameworks that underpin our AI ambitions

Role: AI consultant

Contract Type: Full time, Permanent

Location: Whitbread Court, Dunstable

Why You'll Love It Here

• Healthcare: Family BUPA healthcare
• 10% matched pension
• Discounts: Up to 60% discount on Premier Inn stays and 25% discount on our Restaurant brand
• Annual Incentive of up to 20% Bonus

Check out all our benefits here: https://www.whitbreadcareers.com/about-us/benefits/

What you'll be doing:

As an AI Consultant, you'll play a key role in supporting the delivery of Whitbread's AI Enablement Plan and governance model while helping our Technology Towers and business functions adopt AI successfully. You'll coordinate activities across the AI Portfolio and AI Asset Register, support the management of our Digital Heroes and AI Communities, and help organise workshops, hackathons, coaching sessions, and training initiatives that build AI capability across the organisation. You'll work alongside teams across Whitbread to promote AI policies, best practices, and governance standards, while helping monitor adoption, identify opportunities and risks, and ensure AI initiatives continue to deliver meaningful business value

What you'll need:

• Experience supporting technology, digital transformation, innovation, or change initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to work across multiple teams and functions.
• An interest in AI technologies and a passion for helping others understand and adopt new capabilities.
• Experience facilitating workshops, training sessions, communities of practice, or engagement programmes.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to coordinate multiple activities, workstreams, and stakeholders.
• A collaborative mindset with a focus on delivering positive business outcomes and continuous improvement.

Be part of our Technology Team at Whitbread

Through collaboration, passion and hiring the smartest minds, our Technology team builds products and services that are used by 38,000 of us at Whitbread and millions of guests. Everything from an eCommerce website that handles £2 billion in transactions per year, applications that are scalable across our 1,200 hotel and restaurants, devices that enable our teams and guests to have a seamless experience, all whilst keeping data secure. Together we're building the hotel of the future.