Senior Manager, AI Enablement

About the role

Product Supply is the sourcing, planning and operations organization behind the company's products. As Senior Manager, AI Enablement, you will lead a new team that helps Product Supply put AI to work. You will work with functional teams to find problems where AI can make a real difference, prototype and deliver solutions with digital, IT and data partners, and help people across the organization adopt them with confidence. The role focuses on measurable results such as lower cost, better service and more time for teams to spend on higher-value work.

Key responsibilities

• Opportunity ideation: work with sourcing, planning, operations and other teams to turn their toughest challenges into clear problem statements and business cases tied to cost, service and productivity.
• Solution building and prototyping: lead rapid prototyping and proofs of concept with AI tools to test feasibility, value and timelines before larger technology investment.
• Priority initiative delivery: act as the business-side program lead for high-impact AI initiatives (e.g., AI-enabled vendor allocation and cost analytics), owning scope, milestones, change management and benefits realization from pilot through scale.
• AI fluency and adoption: keep the organization current on AI developments, build a champions network, playbooks, prompt libraries and role-based workflows, within IT and security guardrails.
• Responsible AI and data practices: embed data privacy, access, quality and responsible-use practices into AI solutions and ways of working.
• Roadmap, governance and value tracking: maintain a scored AI use-case roadmap with stage-gates and decision rights, track benefits and report value to leadership.
• Team leadership: build, lead and develop the AI enablement team, and mobilize talent across the organization.

Required profile

• Minimum 8 years of relevant experience.
• Ability to turn emerging AI developments into practical business opportunities, lead change and drive operational excellence.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management and disciplined prioritization, with comfort with ambiguity and the ability to shape a new function.
• Leadership capability to coach and develop team members.
• Familiarity with supply chain, sourcing, planning or manufacturing environments is a plus.

Required skills

• Hands-on experience building or delivering AI-enabled solutions, including generative AI, agents, automation and analytics, from prototype to adoption.
• Learning agility and genuine curiosity about fast-moving AI developments.