AI tooling Governance and Adoption Manager
Once For AllBasingstoke, England, United Kingdom
Added 15 Jul · still live
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Salary
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£48,200
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About the role
Once For All is a high-growth, cloud-based, SaaS subscription business. Our technology helps our customers to manage their supply chain governance, risk management and compliance. We work across public and private sector and have over 250k customers across the UK across 20 different sectors including construction, transport, retail, hospitality education, facility and property management, manufacturing, local and central government.
Role Summary:
OFA Group is scaling its use of AI tooling LLMs like Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT and the growing ecosystem of AI SaaS platforms across every function in the UK, France, and Spain. As adoption accelerates, so does the need for clear governance, cost discipline, standardised ways of working, and confident policy communication. We're creating a new role, AI Tooling Governance & Adoption Manager, to own this end-to-end.
Reporting to the Head of Operational AI, you will define how OFA governs, adopts, and scales its AI tooling from policy and vendor management through to training, adoption metrics, cost, compliance and security controls. This is a foundational role that will shape OFA's IT and operational readiness for large-scale AI transformation, working hand-in-hand with IT Security, Legal, Compliance, Finance, HR, and every business function across the group.
You will not be building AI products or features that sits with our Product and Engineering team. Your remit is the operating model that ensures the AI tools we license are used safely, cost-effectively, consistently, and to their full potential.
Job Responsibilities:
Role Summary:
OFA Group is scaling its use of AI tooling LLMs like Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT and the growing ecosystem of AI SaaS platforms across every function in the UK, France, and Spain. As adoption accelerates, so does the need for clear governance, cost discipline, standardised ways of working, and confident policy communication. We're creating a new role, AI Tooling Governance & Adoption Manager, to own this end-to-end.
Reporting to the Head of Operational AI, you will define how OFA governs, adopts, and scales its AI tooling from policy and vendor management through to training, adoption metrics, cost, compliance and security controls. This is a foundational role that will shape OFA's IT and operational readiness for large-scale AI transformation, working hand-in-hand with IT Security, Legal, Compliance, Finance, HR, and every business function across the group.
You will not be building AI products or features that sits with our Product and Engineering team. Your remit is the operating model that ensures the AI tools we license are used safely, cost-effectively, consistently, and to their full potential.
Job Responsibilities:
- AI Tooling Governance & Policy
- Own the end-to-end governance model for AI tooling policy, standards, tooling selection and the AI use case lifecycle from intake and pre-approval through pilot, scale, review, and retire, with an auditable trail at each stage.
- Manage and maintain the approved AI tools catalogue, permitted-use guidance, and prohibited-use boundaries, with communications tailored to each function.
Must Have
- 6+ years in IT governance, SaaS operations, technology programme management, or a comparable role involving cross-functional policy, adoption, and vendor ownership.
- Demonstrable track record owning the lifecycle of enterprise tooling (intake, adoption, standardisation, cost, retirement) in a mid-to-large organisation.
- Working knowledge of the enterprise AI landscape — LLM vendors and AI SaaS ecosystem — and the governance and security implications each brings.
- Comfortable operating across IT Security, Legal, Compliance, Data Protection, Finance, HR, and business functions, and translating between them.
- Numerate and analytical — able to manage a budget, build a cost model, and interpret adoption analytics.
- Working proficiency in French or Spanish.
- Prior experience in a supply chain, compliance, or B2B SaaS environment.
- Relevant certifications such as CIPP/E, ISO 27001 lead auditor, ITIL, or PRINCE2.
- Hands-on familiarity with the Microsoft 365 stack for AI governance Copilot admin, Purview, Entra ID.
- Hands-on familiarity with deploying and monitoring AI controls within leading platforms, ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Copilot
You are a governance-first operator with a genuine appetite for adoption and enablement. You believe the value of AI comes from how consistently, safely, and confidently people use it — and you want to be the person who makes that happen at scale. You are as comfortable in a Legal review as you are in a training design session, and you can move between the two without losing pace.
You don't need to be a data scientist or an engineer — those capabilities sit elsewhere in the business. Your strength is in operating models, cross-functional orchestration, and the discipline of making a fast-moving space feel calm, coherent, and controlled. You are excited by the prospect of shaping how a 1,000-person business, spanning three countries, uses AI — and you see this role for what it is: a foundational, high-visibility opportunity to build something that will scale.
What we offer:
As well as a career in a fast paced environment within a expanding business, we also offer the below benefits as standard:
- Wellness fund or *Private Medical Insurance (dependent upon role)
- Pension
- Life Assurance x 3
- 25 days holiday plus 8 Bank Holidays
- Ongoing continual professional development (CPD)
- Holiday purchase Scheme up to 5 days
- 1 paid and 1 unpaid volunteering day
- 24/7 and 365 Days Employee Assistance Programme
- Team and company offsite events
- Specsavers eye care voucher
- Free Tea, Coffee and fruit every week – Basingstoke office
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Where this offer sits in the market
SOC 2482 · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · ~137k in sampleP25 £40kP75 £66k
£33kmedian £50kgoing rate £48k£84k
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