About this role
Diversity matters We are building a brand that represents the people of the world. It’s what you do that counts, and we are always looking to expand perspectives and voices to shape our future. We see you, we celebrate you, we want you! Who we are You might know us as the inventors of the bath bomb, but there’s more to this great-smelling, partly employee-owned, family-run company than pioneering cosmetics. We believe our business should put more back into the world than it takes and demonstrate that capitalism can be a force for good.
The Living Wage Foundation’s statement 'a hard day's work deserves a fair day's pay' is one that we are proud to commit to in the UK. As an accredited Living Wage employer, we put our people first and fight cruel practices like animal testing, promote regeneration, and show that it is what’s inside that counts - whether that’s an ingredient in a product, or the minerals in a smartphone.
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Overview: AI as a concept has been around for 65 years or more, but its use and technological advancement has accelerated at lightning speed in recent years with the arrival of Generative AI (Gen-AI) and we now see AI integrated into all aspects of society and our everyday lives. We have always embraced technology and digital innovation as part of our creative spirit and competitive edge at Lush, and recognise that if we do not actively engage with AI we could risk falling behind.
At the same time, we are committed to doing so thoughtfully, with active consideration of the ethical risks that come with AI and in line with our wider Digital Ethics policies. As a first step, we have developed AI Guiding Principles with accompanying training to provide clear guidance on where and how AI can be used within our business which will help to develop best practice and help build on our shared AI literacy and professional skills needed to benefit from the use of AI with continuous improvement.
This role will support the AI Working Group with the coordination, project management and on-going roll-out and adoption of the AI Guiding Principles and Training, working with various teams to develop internal best practice and support the on-going integration and management of AI in the business.
Location: Onsite in Poole Type of contract: 12 month fixed term contract/secondment Please note: We may close this vacancy early if we receive an overwhelming response or our business requirements change.
- Guiding Principles Rollout & Change Management - Support the deployment of company-wide AI guidance and training to embed responsible AI practices directly into everyday business operations.
- Tool Access Management - Work closely with our Tech teams to ensure the appropriate deployment of organisational AI tools, maintaining clear records of access, user permissions, license allocations.
Frontline Support & Helpdesk Operations
- Act as the primary point of contact for central AI inbox, triaging inquiries, answering policy/usage questions, and escalating complex queries and tools or usage requests to subject matter experts and decision making forums for approval.
Document & Resource Management
- Continual review and management of Guiding Principles, Training, FAQs, AI articles and User Guides to ensure they remain up to date with tracked changes to our stance, guidance, standards and tools to ensure all colleagues have access to up to date information at all times
- to be managed globally in connection with local teams.
Training rollout - Support with the global roll out of AI training to the business across all departments and markets.
- Lead the organisation and coordination of training and track attendance.
- Global Training Logistics - Coordinate tailored learning programs and workshops across global regions to accommodate local time zones and localised business, translation and legal requirements.
- Manage central records of training completion and deployment of approved AI tools.
- Keeping up with the conversation - The innovation and understanding of AI is moving at rapid speed, it’s hard to keep up!
- We’d like the person in this role to keep a finger on the pulse of industry use, news and media surrounding AI that can be shared internally to help inform our way forward.
- Monitoring & Reporting - Develop and keep updated processes to track our use of AI and compliance with our internal policies, guidelines, as well as emerging legislation.
- Contribute to monitoring impact with the Impact & Tech Warrior teams.
- Identify opportunities for continuous learning and improvement.
- Keep an AI legislation ledger per Lush market.