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About the Role

We are looking for an exceptional Head of AI Implementation & Enablement to lead Cancer Research UK’s AI Centre of Excellence (AI CoE). This role will enable CRUK to get maximum value from AI to accelerate progress towards beating cancer by driving the safe, effective, and scalable adoption of AI across the organisation. You will establish governance, frameworks, standards, and an operating model that empowers teams to adopt AI with confidence and pace, while ensuring responsible AI use and proportionate risk management.

Responsibilities

Understand business outcomes and priorities, identifying where AI can accelerate progress.
Partner with Data and Technology leads to integrate AI priorities into domain roadmaps.
Help shape and prioritize AI opportunities by value.
Provide patterns and standards for safe and consistent AI delivery.
Run a portfolio of AI experiments and pilots, tracking value delivered.
Scale successful AI pilots into sustainable, business-owned services.
Design and own CRUK’s AI governance framework, from experimentation to retirement.
Make AI approval processes fast and proportionate.
Define triggers for expert involvement in complex or high-risk AI cases.
Set and report on targets for AI approval time.
Maintain an inventory of AI tools, agents, and use cases.
Report on AI value, risk, assurance, and progress to the AI Steering Group.
Drive AI adoption and literacy by building communities of practice and developing skills.
Build consensus among stakeholders with differing priorities and risk appetites.
Lead and develop the AI CoE team, role-modeling collaborative and inclusive behaviors.

Requirements

Practical understanding of generative AI, large language models, and AI agents (capabilities, limitations, and risks).
Understanding of the AI market and supplier landscape.
Experience leading large-scale organizational change, embedding new technologies, operating models, or ways of working across complex stakeholder environments.
Experience scaling pilots into business-owned services, setting outcomes, and measuring benefits and ROI.
Excellent senior stakeholder management and influencing skills.
Ability to build consensus where viewpoints and risk appetites differ.
Comfortable making decisions and giving direction in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
Experience leading and developing a team with a collaborative, inclusive approach.
Commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.
Proven experience designing and operating AI governance and responsible frameworks in a complex organization.
Track record of making governance an enabler using proportionate, risk-based controls.

Skills

Generative AI
Large language models
AI agents
AI market and supplier landscape
Organizational change leadership
Technology embedding
Operating model implementation
Stakeholder management
Influencing
Consensus building
Decision making
Team leadership
AI governance
Responsible AI frameworks
Risk-based controls

Location

Stratford, London

Work Type

Office-based with high flexibility
Full-time
Flexible working arrangements

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

£95,000 - £105,000 per annum

Benefits

Substantial retirement plan
Generous and flexible leave allowance
Discounts on travel
Discounts on technology
Gym membership

About the Company

At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.
We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day.
Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do.

Equal Opportunity

We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under-represented.
We want to see every candidate performing at their best throughout the job application process, interview process and whilst at work.
We therefore ask you to inform us of any concerns you have or any adjustments you might need to enable this to happen.