Engagement: Day Rate Contract / Fixed-Term Contract
Start: ASAP
Shape the Future of AI at a Global Travel Tech Leader
Are you an experienced Senior AI Project Manager looking for your next high-impact contract? Collinson, the company behind Priority Pass, the world's leading airport experiences programme is looking for a driven project delivery specialist to lead significant AI initiatives across our global business.
This is a genuinely exciting opportunity to work, within a business that serves over 400 million consumers and partners with household names like Mastercard, American Express, British Airways, HSBC and Cathay Pacific.
What You'll Be Doing
You'll take ownership of complex, high-profile AI projects from initiation through to delivery. You'll have real autonomy and real accountability, working within a wider AI enthusiastic team
Key Responsibilities
* 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
* Making sure lessons learned are considered and related actions implemented when starting new projects
Knowledge, skills and experience required
* 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
* Experienced in all aspects of project financials from estimation to forecasting and status reporting
* Experience of working with agile methodologies
* Experience of leading multi-disciplined development teams, including managing external vendors and agencies providing services for project
Collinson is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes differences in all their forms including: colour, race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodivergence, family status, age, individuals with disabilities and people from all backgrounds, cultures and experiences as we strongly believe this contributes to our on-going success.
We are focused on continually evolving our purpose driven, high performing culture, providing an environment where our people have the opportunity to achieve their full potential and do interesting and meaningful work.
Our company values are: Take Action, Do the right thing, One team and Be insight led. These help guide everything we do internally in terms of how we think, act and interact, right through to how we deliver value to our customers and clients.
In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example - she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc).
If you need any extra support throughout the interview process, then please email ukrecruitment@collinsongroup.com
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