Role Purpose
Plan, lead, and control AI projects across the full Project Management Lifecycle while ensuring alignment with organizational PMO governance, contractual commitments, and CPMAI™ analytics lifecycle phases to achieve measurable business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Initiation & Alignment
- Develop and maintain the Project Charter, ensuring alignment with business objectives, success criteria, and value realization goals.
- Identify and engage key stakeholders; define stakeholder expectations and communication needs.
Planning
- Establish and baseline the Integrated Project Management Plan, including scope, schedule, cost, quality, resource, risk, communication, and procurement components.
- Define Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), milestones, delivery dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
- Plan resource allocation in coordination with technical leads and functional managers.
- Ensure alignment between delivery plans, payment milestones, and contractual terms.
Execution
- Direct and manage project work in accordance with the approved project plan and governance framework.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams (AI, data, platform, infrastructure) to support CPMAI™ phases such as business understanding, data understanding, modeling, deployment, and monitoring.
- Serve as the primary point of integration between PMO, technical teams, vendors, and clients.
Monitoring & Controlling
- Monitor project performance against baselined scope, schedule, and cost using defined KPIs.
- Identify, assess, and manage risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies (RAID) proactively.
- Control scope through formal Change Control processes and assess impact on time, cost, and value.
- Produce accurate and timely project status reports and forecasts for stakeholders.
Closure & Value Realization
- Ensure formal project closure, including deliverable acceptance, documentation handover, and lessons learned.
- Support value realization tracking and post-delivery performance monitoring where applicable.
- Ensure all contractual and governance artifacts (e.g., CoCs, invoices, approvals) are completed and archived.
Requirements
Qualifications & Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 8+ years of experience in technology project management, including delivery of complex, data-driven or AI-enabled solutions.
- Saudi nationality is mandatory.
- PMP®, PRINCE2®, or equivalent PMI-aligned certification is required.
- PMI-CPMAI™ certification is a strong advantage, with demonstrated understanding of analytics and AI project lifecycles.
- Strong capability in stakeholder engagement, governance enforcement, and cross-functional coordination.
- Proven ability to manage projects in high-visibility, regulated, or enterprise environments.
