Group Transformation – AI Programme & Adoption Manager

Location:

London, minimum 4 days per week onsite across Herne Hill and Carter Lane, with travel to other Group offices as required

Salary:
Competitive, dependent on experience plus company benefits

Contract:

18-month fixed-term transformation contract, with potential to extend

At Mark Allen, we create specialist content, events, data and insight for professional communities across sectors that matter.

As AI Programme & Adoption Manager, you will be part of our four-person AI Implementation Pod, a multidisciplinary, agile team at the centre of Mark Allen Group, supporting our wider Group transformation programme.

You will run the delivery engine of the programme, maintaining the integrated delivery roadmap, project plans, dependencies, resource coordination, reporting and adoption plans that keep a complex portfolio of work coordinated, on track and measurable.

Reporting to the AI Strategic Implementation Lead, who is accountable for programme direction, priorities and outcomes, you will work alongside an AI Technical Implementation Lead and Transformation Fellow to connect business needs, technical delivery and sustained adoption.

Working closely with managing directors, functional leaders, our development and data teams and colleagues across the wider business, you will combine strong programme-management discipline with a significant people and change remit. You will help ensure transformation translates into sustained adoption rather than isolated pilots, coordinating learning and training, supporting teams through changing ways of working and building an active AI Ambassador community across the Group.

This is an opportunity to work at the centre of a Group-wide transformation, bringing structure and momentum to a fast-moving programme while helping colleagues build the confidence and capability to embrace new technologies and more effective ways of working.

• Maintain the integrated roadmap for Group transformation delivery, translating agreed strategic priorities into clear project plans, milestones, and delivery schedules across the programme.
• Manage milestones, work streams, interdependencies and sequencing, ensuring agreed priorities, responsibilities and delivery progress remain visible across the programme.
• Coordinate internal and external resources and maintain visibility of programme resource requirements.
• Track actions, risks, issues and decisions, identifying delivery bottlenecks and escalating appropriately.
• Coordinate activity with external consultants, partners and suppliers, ensuring their work is aligned with programme priorities, delivery plans and timelines.
• Maintain clear programme documentation and governance.
• Prepare concise programme reporting for the AI Strategic Implementation Lead, Group COO and ExCo.

• Coordinate delivery capacity across the AI Implementation Pod and wider teams.
• Track dependencies on Development, Data, HR and other functions.
• Ensure activities are appropriately sequenced and properly resourced.
• Identify competing demands and resource constraints, providing clear options and recommendations to support prioritisation decisions by the AI Strategic Implementation Lead.

• Develop and manage adoption plans across different disciplines.
• Work with the Talent Director and HR to embed AI capability into People First and wider development pathways.
• Coordinate foundational and discipline-specific training, ensuring learning focuses on solving real business problems rather than simply teaching tools.
• Support teams and managers through workflow and behavioural change.
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