Manager, AI Strategy and Enablement

Job description

What's the Short Version? The Manager, AI Strategy & Enablement is accountable for executing SanMar's enterprise approach to AI adoption so it becomes a trusted, practical, and scalable capability across the organization. This role influences AI strategy, and drives how employees use AI in daily work, how teams test AI-powered workflows safely, and how successful ideas scale into supported solutions. Partnering with business, IT, and Architecture leaders, this role connects AI opportunities to measurable outcomes while ensuring AI usage aligns with governance, security, cost controls, and responsible AI standards. The Manager also leads and develops the AI Enablement team and sets clear priorities, expectations, and results. What Will You Be Doing?: - Influence and execute the AI enablement strategy and roadmap aligned to enterprise priorities and emerging AI capabilities. - Act as an internal AI advisor to IT delivery teams, Architecture, and enterprise AI initiatives — ensuring insights from adoption and experimentation inform platform and architectural decisions. - Partner with business leaders to identify, prioritize, and sequence high-value AI use cases. - Lead enterprise adop...