Senior Manager, AI Enablement

Description

The Sr Manager, AI Enablement turns CDW's AI First strategy into the practical work of building AI fluency across the organization, translating it into a clear, sequenced enablement plan and making sure coworkers have the skills, guidance, and confidence to use AI well in their everyday work.

Enablement at CDW is leader-led and delivered through others. The Sr Manager partners with leaders across functions and regions to activate their enablement plans, tracks progress against agreed success measures, and keeps listening and feedback loops open so the approach adapts to what coworkers are actually experiencing. They stay close to external research on the AI skills coworkers need, build a strong network inside and outside CDW, and design what they deliver to scale across the enterprise rather than one team at a time.

The successful candidate will bring disciplined program management, credibility and ease in working across leaders and teams they do not manage, an active network inside and outside the company, a habit of following where the research on AI skills is heading, and a track record of rolling work out at scale.

Drive the Enterprise AI Enablement Program

• Own the operating rhythm for coworker AI enablement — the plan, milestones, dependencies, status reporting, decision forums, and follow-through — bringing program management discipline to work that spans many owners.
• Maintain the enablement roadmap with the Director, Talent Strategy & Planning, sequencing initiatives, flagging risks and trade-offs early, and refreshing it as the technology and the business evolve.
• Represent coworker enablement in CDW's enterprise AI program (AI360) governance forums, keeping the coworker agenda connected to the broader enterprise AI effort and carrying decisions back into the plan.

• Work with functional and regional leaders to build and activate their enablement plans, meeting each organization where it is rather than applying one template everywhere.
• Serve as the connective tissue across CDW, finding where enablement efforts overlap or conflict and pulling them into one coherent approach.
• Support senior leaders in leading AI adoption in their organizations. Deliver or orchestrate leader and manager enablement sessions and hold regular check-ins on progress and where support is needed.
• Partner with Legal, Risk, IT, and Learning to translate responsible AI policy into practical day‑to‑day guidance on how coworkers work with AI at CDW — what good use looks like and where the boundaries sit — and keep that guidance current.
• Act as an AI advisor across the Talent organization — including talent management, learning, talent acquisition and culture & engagement — creating clarity about what AI is changing and how to respond.

• Grow and mature the AI Champion network from pilot to a sustainable, scaled community with clear roles, strong facilitation support, and ongoing accountability.
• Build and maintain an active external network across peer companies, partners, and industry communities, and use those relationships to bring proven, practical examples into CDW's approach.
• Stay current on external research and thinking on the AI skills coworkers need, and work with Learning & Development to translate that into CDW's skill definitions and enablement priorities — identifying emerging capability needs, advising on content and delivery choices, and keeping the approach current as AI changes.
• Work day to day with the external partners and platforms supporting AI enablement, making sure what they deliver fits the enterprise plan and flagging where it needs to change.
• Establish repeatable ways of working and operating…