Senior AI Project Manager – 12 month FTC

Role Overview

• Managing significant/complex AI projects or running multiple lower complexity AI projects concurrently
• Being responsible for all aspects of AI projects from the initiation through to completion and handover to operations
• Applying the relevant standards and methodology to be used in a project – in line with corporate guidelines
• Agreeing roles & responsibilities with the project team and key stakeholders
• Managing key stakeholder & sponsor expectations
• Facilitating the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables
• Producing realistic and coherent project schedules
• Assembling and managing project resources
• Monitoring and tracking AI project progress and deliverables using appropriate tools
• Submitting high quality progress reports to stakeholders and senior managers
• Ensuring project scope is controlled
• Managing project budgets and flagging significant variance
• Ensuring appropriate project documentation is produced and published
• Identification and effective mitigation of project risks
• Identifying and resolving issues – constantly on the lookout for potential problems
• Driving cross-functional project teams to achieve project objectives, providing appropriate direction and support
• Creating a working environment that allows everyone to work to the best of their abilities
• Negotiating with suppliers and sub-contractors as appropriate
• Ensuring that the highest quality standards are met
• Identifying and implementing appropriate remediation actions to bring project back into control as required
• Conducting retrospectives and post project reviews to identify lessons learned that can be incorporated into future projects.

Requirements

• Project management qualification such as Prince2 or PMP
• Strong knowledge of project management techniques and tools
• Excellent risk identification and management
• Experience in AI project delivery
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Delegation
• Negotiation
• Conflict management
• Experienced in all aspects of project financials from estimation to forecasting and status reporting
• Experience of working with agile methodologies
• Experience managing software development projects
• Experience of leading multi-disciplined development teams, including managing external vendors and agencies providing services for project

Tech Stack

• PMP

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Flexible working arrangements
• Professional development opportunities
• Paid time off