AI Enablement & Product Manager in Leeds

AI Enablement & Product Manager Location: Hybrid working with a minimum of 3 days per week in the Leeds office. This is a 12 month fixed term contract role. Ideal Start Date: December 2026 or January 2027 Deadline to Apply: 25th October 2026. Salary: £75- 80,000

Purpose of Role: The AI Enablement and Product Manager is a 12-month contract or FTC role responsible for accelerating the responsible, measurable adoption of Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio and AI agents across the Fund. The postholder will identify priority business needs, shape feasible use cases with technical and governance colleagues, support controlled delivery from discovery to operational adoption, and evidence business benefits.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead structured discovery with business functions to identify where Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio and AI agents could improve decisions, information flows, productivity and control.
• Challenge proposed solutions, test assumptions and identify the underlying business problem before recommending AI-enabled delivery activity.
• Act as product lead for prioritised AI initiatives, maintaining requirements, priorities, acceptance criteria, user feedback, outcome measures and non-functional considerations such as security, auditability, resilience and supportability, while architects, engineers and suppliers retain responsibility for solution design and engineering delivery.
• Support Copilot and AI agent products from discovery and validation through prototype, pilot, evaluation, scaling, operational adoption and transition to business ownership.
• Design proportionate experiments, user research and testing to validate business need, usability, colleague trust, adoption barriers and benefits and agreed outcomes.
• Track Copilot adoption and benefits, including active and sustained usage, productivity, quality, cycle time, colleague confidence, user experience and relevant risk or control indicators.
• Coordinate adoption activity that supports the product pipeline, working across business, technology, data, risk, governance, Commercial, Finance, AI Champions and the AI Community of Practice.

Essential Skills

• Experience in product management, transformation, service design or digital business analysis, with demonstrable experience taking Microsoft AI use cases from structured discovery and prototyping through to adoption in operational use.
• Practical experience designing, implementing and scaling Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Agent Builder or AI agent solutions in a medium or large enterprise, including adoption, governance and benefits realisation.
• Working technical literacy in enterprise AI, automation or digital delivery, including the ability to understand knowledge sources, system dependencies, access controls, integration options, technical constraints and non-functional requirements sufficiently to shape feasible AI use cases with architects, engineers, data and security colleagues.
• Ability to challenge assumptions, define underlying business problems and identify where AI agents, automation or process redesign can deliver the greatest organisational value.
• Ability to prioritise opportunities using value, feasibility and risk.
• Strong cross-functional facilitation and communication skills, with experience working across business and technology teams to overcome delivery barriers, secure business buy-in and implement sustainable solutions.

Desirable Skills

• Experience in financial services, investment, public sector or another regulated environment.
• Knowledge of Power Platform, Azure AI, Microsoft Fabric or related Microsoft technologies.
• Supplier and commercial experience, including working with delivery partners, shaping statements of work, managing supplier inputs or supporting value-for-money assessment.
• AI-specific qualifications, certifications or formal training.

A career with us offers a unique opportunity to make a lasting impact and work on cutting-edge technologies that will drive the UK's future. We value diversity in our people and inclusion is at the heart of what we do. We offer competitive benefits and unique learning opportunities from combining both private and public sector skills and experience. Please note, referencing and background checks are carried out for all roles here at the National Wealth Fund. The National Wealth Fund encourages a diverse workforce and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified people. Inclusion is at the heart of what the Fund does. Diversity in the Fund's people and their ideas will be vital to the National Wealth Fund's success. Appointments will be made on merit, with regard to maintaining the breadth of experience and expertise required and reflecting diversity in the broadest sense, to embrace different perspectives, characteristics and experience, as well as being broadly representative of the nations and regions of the UK. Our roles are open to full-time, part-time or job-share applicants. As part of our standard hiring process, please be informed that a background check will be conducted for successful candidates in accordance with our company policy and industry best practices. Please note, that successful candidates will be offered a salary that is appropriate to their relevant experience and performance during the selection process.

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