We are looking for an experienced Project Manager to manage key client projects.
As a Project Manager, your job will be to coordinate people and processes to ensure that our projects are delivered on time and produce the desired results.
You will be the go-to person for everything involving a project's organization, budget and timeline. Including developing detailed project schedules, plans, ensuring resource availability and allocation and delivering every project on time within budget and scope. Essential to this role is a demonstrated use of AI in day-to-day project delivery.
The successful candidate will initially join as a Senior Project Manager, with promotion to Director of Project Management upon demonstrating the leadership and performance required to lead the department.
Responsibilities- Manage each project's scope and timeline, Including change management
- Create and manage project budgets and forecasts; identify variances early and drive corrective action to protect project profitability, balanced with client satisfaction
- Develop high level and detailed schedules
- Work with client product owners to prioritize backlogs and new requests
- Facilitate good relationships with clients; seek and win project expansions and extensions
- Collaborate with internal teams to design, develop and implement mobile and web applications
- Identify, manage and proactively resolve project risks
- AI-assisted creation of project assets. Use AI to optimize the creation and maintenance of:
- Project plans, work breakdown structures, milestones, dependencies, and release plans.
- Risk, assumption, issue, and dependency registers.
- Status reports, decision logs, and change requests.
- Use AI to help analyse delivery data, identify trends, explain variances, and draft actionable reporting.
- Build reusable prompts, templates, and workflows for planning, reporting, and risk reviews.
- Connect AI-supported workflows to project systems and documentation.
- Use approved AI tools and workflows, protect client and company information, and remain accountable for the accuracy and appropriateness of outputs; evaluate new tools and workflows
- Automate appropriate steps, such as drafting status reports from delivery data or extracting actions from approved meeting records.
- Recognize inaccurate outputs, missing dependencies, unrealistic estimates, and unsupported conclusions.
- Be the point of contact for external communications (e.g. from clients or stakeholders)
- Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that occur
- Help teams implement changes effectively
- Ensure deliverables meet quality standards at the end of each sprint
- Help build a productive environment where team members 'own' the product and enjoy working on it
- Seek opportunities for improvement and suggest new projects
- Help establish governance and a working PMO
- Demonstrate the ability to mentor project managers and help establish consistent planning, financial management, reporting and delivery practices across the department
- Develop, deliver, and evaluate client training on the practical use of AI in project management
Requirements- Proven work experience as a Project Manager using Software Development Life Cycle best practices
- 10+ years experience in Portfolio, Project, or Program Management
- Demonstrated use of at least one of ChatGPT, Claude, or Microsoft 365 Copilot to produce project plans, risk registers, status reports, and KPI definitions.
- Strong ability to use AI to build budget forecasts, resource plans, and KPI reporting; check formulas; and validate AI-generated analysis.
- Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done, automated testing, backlog refinement)
- Good knowledge of Agile frameworks, waterfall, iterative project methodologies
- Experience managing projects involving AI, machine learning, data science or automation.
- Understanding of the AI/ML development lifecycle, including data preparation, model development, testing, deployment and monitoring.
- Experience coordinating cross-functional teams, including software developers, data engineers, data scientists and ML engineers.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills
- Experience facilitating client workshops or delivering professional training
- Problem-solving and conflict-resolution ability
- Outstanding organizational skills
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Project and similar products
- Familiarity with JIRA and Confluence
- Excellent organization and time management skills
- Communication and team management skills
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Business or similar field
- Formal Project Management Certification : PMP, Prince2, Agile Certified
Additional Preferred Requirements:- Experience working on 10+ man year projects
- Experience in a scrum master role
- Reporting and visualisation experience using Power BI, Tableau or comparable tools
- Familiarity with TFS or Azure DevOps
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