Senior Manager - Data/AI Projects - Scaling Data Consultancy

Milburn Lewis
Liverpool
1 year ago
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Our client is an award-winning, pure-play data consultancy, and one of the fastest growing companies in its sector. They help clients get data right, by providing expertise across data strategy, data science, data engineering and BI. They do this across a range of industries, including manufacturing, energy, healthcare, automotive and FMCG. The work is varied and interesting, and has won awards for innovation.


An opportunity has arisen to join their Client Delivery function as a Senior Client Delivery Manager. This is a senior role, that will play a pivotal part in how projects are delivered across the business.


Key responsibilities will include overseeing delivery of a range of different data projects (i.e data science, data engineering, BI etc), across a diverse variety of industry sectors. You will be part of the client leadership team, and will be responsible for building and maintaining, long-lasting, solid relationships with clients, built on trust. You will lead and direct the technical project team to ensure value creating on clients. You will also be involved in proposal submissions, business development initiatives and road-mapping of analytical projects.


The ideal candidate will have deep experience in delivering a diverse range of data projects within the consulting sector. (extensive consulting experience is essential for this role). Exposure to GenAI projects is highly desirable, but not essential. You will have very strong Agile delivery and project governance experience. You will have outstanding commercial awareness and excellent stakeholder managements skills with demonstrable experience in driving business value. This company is not focussed on financial services, so candidates should ideally have exposure to other industries such as FMCG, Healthcare, Energy etc.


This role would be ideal for someone currently working for a top tier consultancy, who would like to be part of a faster-moving, more entrepreneurial firm, and have greater freedom within their role.


This is a fantastic opportunity to join one of the fastest growing consultancies in the data world, as they continue to scale, and be part of this exciting growth journey. Please note this role can be based anywhere in the UK as long as candidates are happy for some travel to visit clients etc.

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