AI Transformation Project Manager

AI Transformation Project Manager Permanent Opportunity Hybrid Working (1-2 days in office, central London) We're recruiting an experienced AI Transformation Project Manager to join a leading global Legal organisation as part of an ambitious, organisation-wide AI transformation programme. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in how AI is evaluated, introduced and adopted across the organisation, ensuring new technologies are implemented safely, responsibly and in a way that delivers measurable business value. Working within a multi-disciplinary transformation function, you'll operate at the intersection of AI, technology, transformation, project delivery and change, leading complex initiatives from initial business case through to implementation, adoption and benefits realisation. The role As an AI Transformation Project Manager, you'll lead and support the delivery of AI projects across multiple business areas and geographies. You'll work across the full project lifecycle, including defining business cases, developing project plans, gathering and analysing requirements, reviewing and redesigning processes, assessing solutions, planning implementation, supporting UAT, and coordinating training and adoption. Key responsibilities will include:

• Leading the management, analysis and delivery of AI and transformation projects.
• Developing and maintaining project plans, action logs, RAID logs and other project controls.
• Analysing existing processes and identifying opportunities for efficiency, standardisation and cost savings.
• Identifying tactical solutions that remove pain points and deliver practical improvements.
• Supporting AI adoption and change management, including assessing change impacts and developing communications and training.
• Mapping and engaging stakeholders across complex projects.
• Defining and tracking success measures, ROI and benefits realisation.
• Identifying dependencies across projects and helping to reduce siloes across the organisation.
• Supporting colleagues in developing effective project delivery approaches and ways of working. About you You'll be an experienced project or transformation professional who is comfortable delivering complex change in a fast-moving and sometimes ambiguous environment. You'll have strong experience of applying a range of project management approaches and tools, alongside the judgement to adapt your approach depending on the needs of the project. Ideally, you'll have experience working on large-scale, complex and multi-geographical or global transformation programmes, together with a strong interest in AI and emerging technologies and how they can create meaningful business value. You'll also bring:
• Strong project management and transformation delivery experience.
• A good understanding of change management, adoption and communications.
• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
• The ability to explain complex or technical concepts clearly to a range of audiences.
• Strong process analysis, process mapping and problem-solving capabilities.
• Confidence facilitating workshops and engaging senior stakeholders.
• Strong influencing and relationship-building skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• The ability to make decisions and progress projects at pace.
• A collaborative, adaptable and pragmatic approach. Experience within a professional services or legal company would be advantageous, as would a recognised project management or process improvement qualification such as PRINCE2, APM, Scrum or Six Sigma, although these are not essential. The opportunity You'll join a multi-disciplinary transformation environment spanning project management, business analysis, change and communications, data and reporting, and strategy. This is a high-profile opportunity to help shape how AI is introduced and adopted across a complex global organisation, working with stakeholders across different functions and geographies to turn emerging technology into practical and measurable business improvements. We're looking for someone who is innovative, commercially minded and delivery focused, with the confidence to navigate ambiguity and bring structure to complex transformation initiatives.