Data & AI Governance Manager

Why join us

Joining Sainsbury's as a Data IA Governance Manager means being at the forefront of shaping and leading Data and AI governance within our organisation. This role offers a unique opportunity to drive compliance, mitigate risks, and promote ethical AI adoption, making a profound and lasting impact on our data and analytics practises. With a focus on innovation and responsibility, you'll have the chance to develop frameworks, establish ethical guidelines, and collaborate with diverse teams to ensure that our AI-driven future is built on a foundation of transparency, fairness, and accountability. If you are passionate about fostering a culture of responsible AI use and driving impactful change, this is the perfect environment to thrive and contribute to meaningful advancements in data governance and ethics.

You'll be at the forefront of shaping and leading Data and AI governance within the Data & Analytics directorate. Your role will involve developing and implementing governance frameworks that align with legal, regulatory, ethical, and internal standards, ensuring compliance, mitigating risks, and fostering the adoption of ethical AI practises across the organisation. Collaborating closely with various teams, including Data Science, Technical, Architecture, InfoSec, and business stakeholders, you will drive a culture of responsible and ethical AI use, while also monitoring the regulatory landscape to introduce necessary changes and protocols for addressing AI-related ethical breaches. Your expertise in data and AI ethics, risk management, compliance frameworks, and stakeholder management will be crucial in driving the organisation towards a future where innovation is balanced with responsibility and ethics in AI adoption.

What you'll do:

• Developing and implementing an AI governance framework aligned with company principles and regulatory requirements
• Establishing clear ethical guidelines for AI use
• Creating diverse AI governance process/committees.
• Implementing strong data AI standards.
• Providing education on responsible AI use.
• Monitor and understand regulatory landscape together with our Legal, Privacy, and Risk teams, and introduce changes to AI Governance artifacts as needed.
• Developing protocols for addressing AI-related ethical breaches.
• Leading risk management efforts to identify and mitigate AI-related risks.
• Collaborating with various teams to ensure compliance with program, regulatory, and industry standards related to responsible AI.
• Assess and mitigate AI-related risks, ensuring transparency, fairness, explainability, privacy, and accountability.
• Creating a ‘risk’ /usage AI dashboard 
• Establish the AI Governance capability (services, resources, capabilities)

Who you are:

• You're a highly skilled professional with a deep understanding of data ethics, risk management, and compliance frameworks. 
• Your expertise in implementing AI governance policies, standards, and strategies, coupled with strong stakeholder management skills, enables you to drive the development and implementation of governance frameworks that align with legal, regulatory, and ethical standards. 
• With a proactive and problem-solving mindset, you are committed to fostering a culture of responsible and ethical AI use within the organisation, ensuring transparency, fairness, and accountability in all AI-related initiatives.

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. We’re one of the biggest supermarkets in the UK with one of the largest websites. So marketing here really happens at scale. We move a lot faster than you’d think too, across Brand Planning, Brand Comms and Creative, Digital Marketing, CRM and Loyalty, Nectar 360, Insights, and Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability. More people shopping with us each week means more interactions. And thanks to data insight, we understand customers in a way that almost nobody else does. We work alongside incredible brand partners and the best agencies around. So if you have a passion to learn, grow and experience new teams, come and explore it all with us.

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:

Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.

Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme.

Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.

Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).