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.
